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Outlook 2007

• Quick! Recall that email message

  27 Jan 2012

  It happens. You made a mistake. How do you "take back" or recall an Outlook email message that you already sent? How do you recall a message and replace it with another one? Go to your Outlook Sent Items folder first, and then recall that message! Quickly! Here's how: Recall a message in Outlook 2003...
• Zombies, but in a good way: 20 how-to posts that just won't die

  13 May 2011

  Which need-to-know info on Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word do Office users keep returning to? Ever since George Romero's 1968 movie Night of the Living Dead , zombies have kept popping up in pop culture like, well, like zombies. They appear when and where they're least expected, creating fun for...
• What's with that pesky spell checker?

  20 Apr 2011

  Today's post about the Office spelling checker is contributed by Daren Obenaus, a manager and writer for Office.com . We all know it's important to spell check our documents before we present them to others, but sometimes it's not so easy to use the spelling checker in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook...
• Use mail merge to streamline mass mailings

  11 Apr 2011

  Today's post about using mail merge to create a mass mailing is contributed by Kristin Beck, a writer and editor for Office.com . Many of you want to know more about how to set up and run a mail merge. Mail merge streamlines the mass-mailing process by allowing you to send out a set of documents or messages...
• "Zoo Closed, Cobra Missing": Did they try Outlook Instant Search?

  6 Apr 2011

  When things go missing in your business, how much time do you waste tracking them down? Instant Search in Outlook might be able to help. The World of Reptiles Exhibit at the Bronx Zoo shut down recently because of a wayward Egyptian cobra. I saw the headline and thought to myself, "Now how many times...
• Out of the office? Reply to messages with Outlook

  4 Apr 2011

  Matt Shelton contributed today's post about how to use Out of Office and Automatic Replies to send email responses when you're away from the office. Matt, a senior writer, focuses on creating Office content for teachers and students. If you can't reply to e-mails during the work day (or if you're away...
• Crabby's shorty shortcut tips for working smarter (Part I)

  3 Dec 2009

  I love finding ways to get my work done quicker so that I can push myself away from my desk, take a deep stretch, and ponder the many avenues I have taken on my way to Crabbydom. What about you? What would YOU be doing if you weren't chained to your desk? How about you learn some new tricks first and...
• Never miss a deadline again.

  18 Aug 2009

  My teammates Joannie Stangeland and Michael Oldenburg produce the video series "A Writer's Guide to Office." This recent episode about pairing OneNote with Outlook to track submission deadlines and records has already helped me revamp my own poetry submission process. (Yes, we do have lives outside of...
• Top 5 Office training courses

  16 Jun 2009

  A bad economy is good time to put your best foot forward, whether that means becoming the Office products expert in your workplace, or adding new job skills to your resume. Office Online offers a catalog of free training courses , each one anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour long, a perfect fit for most...
• Office Casual: How to Twitter in Outlook (with TwInbox)

  4 Jun 2009

  There are more than a dozen ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally known as OutTwit in its beta stages) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in the hands of us Twitters. Here's a short video on TwInbox . Office Casual: How to Twitter in Outlook (with TwInbox) You can find the free download...
• Top 10 Office podcasts (plus 90 more)

  28 Apr 2009

  What? You haven’t heard about Office Podcasts ? Then you probably don’t know that we published our 100th amazing podcast episode . Neither did my boss, so I’m sharing my hot top 10 Office podcasts with you and him. If you haven’t experienced the growing selection of audio or video podcasts on Office...
• Office Casual: How to use Outlook on your phone (with Jott)

  16 Apr 2009

  How would like to make a quick call and do things in Outlook like send email, schedule meetings, and create notes? I made this Office Causal video about a service called Jott and a nifty free add-in from Office Online. You can learn more about Jott here and Outlook add-in here . Office Casual: How to...
• Top Time Savers II: Create a distribution list in Outlook

  23 Feb 2009

  Wondering how to set up distribution lists in Outlook? Here's our answer to that ever-popular question. Quick video : Watch this: Create a distribution list in Outlook 2007 Full text: Create and edit a distribution list in Outlook 2007 Outlook 2003 version : Create a distribution list (Outlook 2003 ...
• And the Oscar for best screenplay goes to ...

  19 Feb 2009

  Do you love movies? Is the Internet Movie Database bookmarked in your browser? Are you secretly giddy in anticipation of the Academy Awards this Sunday? Well, then I’ll bet it’s also true that you have an excellent idea for a screenplay that you’ve been threatening to write for years. I know I do! There...
• Font foils football fakery!

  5 Feb 2009

  Nothing could be less newsworthy than standard fonts in Outlook and Word, right? Wrong. Sean Fallon on Gizmodo: The Gadget Blog, reports that the Microsoft font Calibri, introduced in 2007 and used as the default font in Outlook, helped uncover a strange deception: Deceased ex-football player's shady...
• Too much to juggle, not enough hands? "How Outlook can save your social life."

  13 Nov 2008

  With the mixed bag of brilliant innovations and petty annoyances that come with modern life, getting organized is a perennial challenge. Some folks are naturally brilliant at it but I suspect they're all either engineers or parents with multiple kids and kindly pharmacists. Juggling work, family, and...
• What happens to the feedback you send us?

  14 May 2008

  I told you a while back that we’re listening to you . In fact, we love to hear from you. Not a day or a meeting goes by that we don’t review and discuss your feedback. Almost everything that goes on around here is identified and prioritized and implemented based on your ratings and comments. On behalf...
• Out of office for a while?

  23 Apr 2008

  You probably have thought about writing a witty, funny, and catchy out of office message. Perhaps, you've seen our ealier post " Out of office or out to lunch? " and maybe, just maybe, you've thought about doing a nice practical joke. Something like: " I'm not really out of the office. I'm just ignoring...
• Who needs help?

  15 Apr 2008

  Our ongoing mission at Office Online is to help our customers understand how to use our products so that they can become more effective, more efficient and productive. (Read: get out of the office early because you're so good at what you do!). One of our co-workers, Michelle Valeriano, manages the Help...
• A few of your favorite things

  13 Dec 2007

  If you haven't noticed yet, we've now published our Top Hits for 2007 . This is our annual collection of readers' favorite templates, downloads, columns and more. Some of them are perennial favorites, while there's always a good sprinkling of new items that moved to the top of the ratings this year....