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Outlook 2010

• Three Power Tips for Reading the Office Blog

  22 Feb 2012

  This post is written by Craig Kerwien, the Director of Site Management in the Office Division Product Management Group. We're all about productivity and getting things done here in the back offices of the Office Blog command center. We've made a few changes to the blog in the past several months that...
• 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...
• Pictures pop with easy photo editing in Office 2010

  13 Jun 2011

  This is post #9 in the Ten Days of Office series celebrating the one-year anniversary of the release of Office 2010 with tips and tricks for getting the most from your Office experience. The cliché "a picture's worth 1,000 words" persists because a great picture gets to the point in a way that...
• Small Business: Top 10 productivity tips in the office and on the go

  17 May 2011

  If you're a small business owner, you're probably always on the lookout for resources to help you run your business more easily. Whether you're a Windows fan or a Mac lover, the following 10 tips and tricks from the Office team will help you get more done whether you're in the office or on the go. Top...
• 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...
• Blogger Carissa Rogers is good and crazy about Outlook 2010 (video)

  16 Apr 2011

  Former molecular biologist and now-blogger Carissa Rogers ( goodncrazy.com ) has three kids, a husband, and a non-stop stream of business projects, meetings, and events. Her husband has been using Outlook; she's been using web-based calendars. It's long past time to get it all together, so she's taken...
• Multi-multi tasking and Office everywhere (video)

  15 Apr 2011

  We just got out of the keynote panel discussion here at Mom 2.0. Three hundred folks were seated around tables in the grand ballroom--and 295 of them had more than one device in front of them. Phones of every stripe, iPads, and computers of every size, shape, and color. This was extreme multi-tasking...
• Where is Word Count? (video)

  14 Apr 2011

  A lot of you made the switch to Word 2007 or Word 2010 and lost track of your favorite feature, Word Count. It's still there, in two places: 1. The status bar in the lower-left corner of the screen. Word tracks the number of words in your document as you type. Select a block of text and Word will show...
• 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...
• Include your signature in email or documents

  16 Mar 2011

  Your correspondence is electronic now, but a signature personalizes even electronic email and documents. Many of you are asking about how to include signatures in Outlook email and in Word documents. You can find instructions for creating signatures at Office.com , but for easy reference, we've rounded...
• CES: Outlook 2010's Conversation View puts you back in action (video)

  6 Jan 2011

  Being at a hectic non-stop conference like CES doesn't keep my Outlook inbox from filling up with email. So here's how I use Conversation View in Outlook 2010 to keep up -- meaning, to selectively clean up, group, and (Hallelujah!) ignore whole conversations I don't have time for right now. So if you...