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time management

• Say Om: Outlook as guru

  14 Nov 2011

  Every morning, right before I let her out, Bamboo plants her paws in front of my feet and casually leans into a perfect and seemingly effortless Downward-Facing Dog asana , this simplest of yoga poses. And every morning I admire—or is it envy?—her unencumbered life, her absence of guile,...
• Share your Outlook calendar: Your time is my time

  28 Oct 2011

  There are three different ways in which you can share your Outlook 2010 calendar: By email These calendars arrive in your recipient’s Inbox as an email message attachment, with a Calendar Snapshot in the message body. You can edit the Calendar Snapshot before sending; for example, you can change...
• 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: Getting started

  14 Sep 2011

  If you've been using Outlook as an email program for a while and are ready to start using it as a full productivity suite, this training is for you. Perhaps you've already found the article Best Practices for Outlook 2010 on Office.com and would like to see an overview of how it works in practice. This...
• Your Outlook calendar: Would you exist without it?

  4 Aug 2011

  In my opinion, the Outlook calendar is one of the most powerful features in all of Office. I use it for keeping track, not just of meetings and appointments, but for tasks, to-do lists, reminders, and more. It's the MacGyver of all the Office programs (in my opinion, anyway). But I'd be willing to bet...
• Best Practices for Outlook 2007

  11 Nov 2009

  On the Outlook team, we are frequently asked: “what is the ‘right way’ to use Outlook?” Sure enough, there is no “right way” to work in Outlook—but, as the product team, we did design it with certain best practices in mind. Specifically, there are some best practices that make you more efficient at getting...
• Meeting Requests with a Preview of your Calendar

  20 Aug 2009

  Earlier we’ve shown how Conversations and Quick Steps are designed to help you get through your email faster than ever before. Now, we’d like to show you another feature that will save you time whenever you receive a meeting request! Handling meeting requests usually involves two important steps – reading...
• Introducing Quick Steps

  27 Jul 2009

  The purpose of the Ribbon in Outlook is to help you become more efficient in getting your work done – be that processing e-mail in your Inbox (Mail Home Tab), managing your Calendar (Calendar Home Tab), or doing work in Tasks (Tasks Home Tab). In designing the Ribbons, we strove for consistency...
• Preparing to be away

  24 Nov 2008

  Before you go on vacation or leave the office for an extended period of time (for example, before you leave for Thanksgiving), there are a few small things you can do to make your colleagues aware of your upcoming absence and to plan accordingly. Letting people know you are going away It is generally...
• Living in Outlook: Advanced Message Templates

  17 Nov 2008

  The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! In my last blog post I talked about how I use Message Templates and how to create them. You may...
• 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...
• 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...