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• Outlook Best Practices: Maintaining the system

  11 Oct 2011

  In this final video installment, Harry has really learned some effective time and schedule management, and he knows that all that depends on consistently applying the principles he's learned — fundamentals that can happen naturally after they become part of a normal routine. But Renée has...
• Outlook Best Practices: Tasks

  21 Sep 2011

  Sorting through email—sometimes in that panicked or semi-panicked state—may seem the most logical way to figure out what you need to do RIGHT NOW. But I can tell you by experience that it isn't. If you have something that need to get done pronto and that you didn't schedule for a specific...
• Switching between modules on the keyboard and in the To-Do Bar

  12 Sep 2008

  Have you ever wondered if there was a quicker way to go between Mail, Calendar, Contacts, etc. than just clicking on the buttons in the Navigation Pane? Well there is! Here are the shortcut keys: And if you are in Mail, and you want to quickly see your calendar on a particular date, just click on the...
• How to sort by anything

  28 Mar 2008

  One of the powerful things that Outlook can do is help you arrange your data in interesting ways. Outlook's Field Chooser is a great tool that helps you to add any Outlook field to your view, which you can then use to sort your data. Here’s an example involving contacts.  Suppose you meet...
• Q&A 2: Showing Tasks from PSTs in the To-Do Bar

  25 Feb 2008

  More Q&A: How to make the To-Do Bar show tasks from an Archive “Is there any way to get the To-Do Bar to also look at archived email? Because of our corporate policy on InBox size, I have to archive my emails daily. When the emails with flags are archived, they disappear off the To-Do Bar.”...
• Removing items from the To-Do Bar

  15 Jan 2008

  I don’t think there is much that is more satisfying than crossing things off a to-do list. The To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 can help you automatically create a to-do list and provide you with a few options for getting that satisfied feeling after you’ve wrapped up a task or followed up on an e-mail. If...
• The Daily Task List

  7 Dec 2007

  A few months ago we blogged about the new To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 , and today I'm going to expand on that by talking about the new Daily Task List , and how you can use it together with the To-Do Bar as a pretty cool little task-and-time-management system. Every good feature starts with a real-world...
• Outlook 2007 Gadgets for Windows Sidebar

  29 Nov 2007

  If you’re a fan of the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar, but wish your upcoming appointments and tasks could be shown even when Outlook was minimized, I’ve got great news for you, you can do this today with the Outlook Sidebar Gadgets. One of the new features introduced in Windows Vista is the Windows Sidebar...
• Fun with Outlook Date Fields

  14 Nov 2007

  Here’s a cool trick for Outlook: you can type in date fields! Suppose I want to set up a meeting for next Friday. In the meeting inspector, instead of clicking on the calendar picker to navigate to the right day, I can simply type “next Fri” into the date field, then press Tab or...
• SharePoint and Outlook – The Perfect Link

  28 Sep 2007

  Outlook 2003 introduced integration with SharePoint, allowing you to see some SharePoint information (like calendars) in Outlook alongside your personal information. In Outlook 2007, we made this a whole lot better. Here we’ll focus on the new Document Library syncing capability that allows you...
• Introducing the To-Do Bar...

  21 Jun 2007

  The To-Do Bar is brand-new to Outlook 2007, and enables you to track your time and tasks wherever you are in the application. We hope you’ll find the post below informative, and in the coming months we will posting more about tips and tricks about using the To-Do Bar. Enjoy! Instead of looking at scraps...