Outlook Blog

Schedule crammed? Try searching your Calendar

Dail Bridges — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:20:00 GMT

Now when is that neighborhood planning meeting and will it conflict with the business dinner your boss just asked you to attend? Your calendar is so full that scanning it won't help. You might not know that the Outlook Calendar has its own Search to help you sort out the dates.

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Filtering emails in Outlook

Dail Bridges — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:38:00 GMT

Outlook offers several ways to filter emails. A filter lets you see only those messages that meet certain criteria. For example, you could pick a filter that lets you see only emails that have attachments or are unread. Here's how it works.

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Grouping emails by conversations

Dail Bridges — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:53:00 GMT

Have you ever had to find an email that was part of a long thread--an email with lots of replies about the same topic? For example, your boss might have asked for the results of last month's important meeting, and you know Sherry sent an email outlining them, but then you remember that Todd followed hers with more information.

If you group your emails into conversations, you can find the emails you want more quickly.

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Conditional Formatting: Highlight your most important mails

Outlook Team — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:08:00 GMT

Conditional formatting is an Outlook tool for making sure your important email messages stick out in your Inbox. The tool lets you customize how different messages appear in your Inbox based on criteria that you set. This post shows you how.

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Remember to update your Facebook provider for OSC

Outlook Team — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:58:00 GMT

In January of this year, we released an update to the software that connects Outlook Social Connector (OSC) to Facebook. Starting on May 1^st, all users of the Facebook provider for the OSC will need to download this update to continue getting social media updates from their Facebook contacts and to avoid getting errors when they connect to Facebook via the OSC.

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Quick Rule Creation in Outlook 2010

Outlook Team — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 22:28:00 GMT

If you are a heavy email user like me, chances are good that you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists. Unsolicited spam is one issue we battle in our inboxes, but perhaps more perplexing is the amount of email messages that we call “graymail.” Graymail consists of all those newsletters and notifications that can be useful, but aren’t necessarily what you you want at the top of your Inbox. The Rules feature in Outlook 2010 makes it easy to sort emails that need your attention from the graymail ones that don't. This post shows you how.

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Schedule View in Outlook 2010

Outlook Team — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:35:00 GMT

Schedule View is a horizontal layout for the Outlook calendar that shows you many calendars at the same time. If you and your co-workers share calendars, this feature makes it much easier to schedule meetings with each other.

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5 Tips on using Bcc in Outlook Email

Dail Bridges — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:00:00 GMT

It's kind of funny that a software application would use abbreviations that refer to pre-software days. Remember carbon copies? Cc means carbon copy and Bcc means blind carbon copy. For emailing, you use Cc when you want to copy others publicly, and Bcc when you want to do it privately. Any recipients on the Bcc line of an email are not visible to others on the email. These five tips get beginners started and provide info for those who already know how to use Bcc.

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Webinar: Unclutter your Outlook inbox

Doug Thomas — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:45:00 GMT

Watch ths Office 15-Minute Webinar to learn about uncluttering your inbox with Outlook. You can join Office webinars at 9:15 am PDT on Tuesdays. Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

What you will learn at the webinar

How to search in Outlook
Clean-up with Conversation View
Delete: a personal philosophy
What are...

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Better Searching in Outlook 2010

Outlook Team — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:51:00 GMT

A common problem with email searches is that they can return too many results. For example, entering someone’s name may return matches where the name appears in parts of the message’s body even though you meant to look for messages from that person. It can be also hard to enter other criteria to help narrow your search, such as whether it has an attachment or that it has a particular category applied. Wouldn’t it be great if you could specify these parameters easily and get a better set of results - finding what you want even faster? Outlook 2010 makes it easy!

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