Results for:
tips_2600_amp_3B00_tricks

• Outlook on Outlook: Autumn 2011 posts

  21 Nov 2011

  I'm starting a new feature here on the Outlook blog: A seasonal roundup of the best and brightest blog posts, articles, and general news about Outlook. Take a look; you may have missed something that could very well change your life (at least the way you email about it, calendar around it, and make tasks...
• Noisy Outlook Inbox? Turn down the sound with a couple of tweaks

  2 Nov 2011

  Before I hop into today's features that you MUST use, I need to first explain what Conversations are (in Outlook, not in life; I assume we are all up to speed on the back and forth that happens between people...and their pets). Conversations in Outlook are simply email threads — the complete chain...
• 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 Quick Steps: One-click shortcuts

  24 Oct 2011

  Question: How many mouse clicks and keyboard finger tappings does it take to categorize an email message, move it to a folder, add a follow-up flag, reply to it, and create a meeting request about it? Answer: One, if you're using a Quick Step. Quick Steps, new in Outlook 2010, is a feature that applies...
• 10 insider's shortcuts for Outlook

  18 Oct 2011

  Shortcuts are generally good: When training to do heart surgery? Not good. When developing software that helps people be more productive? Not good. When using software more efficiently? Good. These last two are obviously related: When the developers of Outlook created the program, they did not take shortcuts...
• Calendar powertips for Outlook

  13 Oct 2011

  Today I'm presenting you with three power tips. Tips so sturdy, so reliable, and so easy to remember that I sort of feel bad that I haven't offered them up until now. But I must confess: These tips came from a variety of places—I didn't just come up with them like magic—and so a couple of...
• 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: Scheduling

  6 Oct 2011

  Although you don't have much say about when and how many meetings are scheduled, you do have more control over your calendar than you might think. In this video, Renée talks to Harry about some of the things he can do to take more control over his calendar such as 1) Setting aside time each morning...
• Outlook Best Practices: The Four Ds

  4 Oct 2011

  Learning to manage your email and time effectively is not only a function of Outlook features. Control of your schedule comes from understanding and following best practices in how you work. Renée explains the principles behind the practice of the "four Ds" in handling email: Delete it. Do it...
• Outlook Best Practices: Rules

  29 Sep 2011

  A lot of email messages you get don’t need a response, and don't even need to be read right away, especially those from large distribution lists. Renée shows Harry how to set up rules in Outlook that route email from those lists to special folders, to be read at a time that Harry schedules...
• Outlook Best Practices: Search folders

  27 Sep 2011

  In Harry's next visit with Renée, she explains that by creating Search Folders—which look just like regular folders—Harry doesn't have to know where to hunt for a particular message. She explains to him that there's no more need for panicking when he wants to find a particular message...
• 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...
• Outlook Best Practices: Categories

  19 Sep 2011

  Adding categories is like tagging photos or adding tags to blog posts: you're adding little handles or hooks that help you gather related messages. Watch how Harry's eyes are opened even further in this next video when Renée explains to him how categories can really lighten his load when used...
• Outlook Best Practices: Folders

  16 Sep 2011

  When you're searching for a particular email message, you don't have to know what folder it's in (unlike your filing system at home); search will find it for you. Organizing and staying on top of your mail can involve creating a folder structure that makes sense to you, and there are some tried and true...
• 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...
• Start up Outlook to show ANYTHING but mail

  7 Sep 2011

  You're a rogue, a character, a one-of-a-kind. You care for neither paper nor plastic (as if). So maybe, when you open up Outlook for the day, you don't WANT mail to show up first. Why paint yourself into a corner, answering all those mails right away when you don't have to? Maybe you need to ease into...
• Three Outlook 2010 favorites you need to know about

  29 Aug 2011

  I probably spend most of my working day in Outlook—work email, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Notes, and even personal email (hey if Outlook makes it so easy then I have no choice but to use it). Every new version of Outlook comes with its own set of new and improved features, but Outlook 2010 really...
• Hate spam? Three ways to avoid it

  17 Aug 2011

  No one likes opening up their e-mail account to find a bunch of junk. Yes, the delete button is a handy tool but I don't know about you, after a half hour of going through a big pile of unnecessary e-mail, my deleting finger goes numb and my mood turns sour. You can avoid getting this stuff in the first...
• 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...
• Office.com videos and articles help you master Outlook 2010

  18 Mar 2011

  I’m Bruce Keever from the Office Content Publishing team. We provide lots of information to help you be more productive with Outlook. Did you know that we’re continually updating and adding new Help articles, training courses, and videos to Office.com ? Through our partnership with BrainStorm...