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• 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...
• 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...
• Inbox sanity: Prioritize your email with Outlook conversation tools

  31 Aug 2010

  Suffering from inbox overload? In Outlook, you don't have to prioritize and sort your email the hard way. Outlook 2010 has three new features that do more for my sanity than six weeks of therapy: the Ignore feature (my and Crabby's favorite), Conversation view , and the Conversation Clean-up tool . Plagued...
• Guy Kawasaki on brevity + our best practices for Outlook 2007

  7 Apr 2010

  I returned last week from a family emergency that meant ignoring work for eight days. Everything turned out okay, but I came back to a mountain of email, 80% disposable, 20% important. In the sorting, I found this gem in Adam Bryant's NYT "corner office" interview with Guy Kawasaki : business schools...
• Office Intervention: Break me out of Mail Jail!

  18 Jan 2010

  I think Outlook is the Office product offering the most great features that people don’t use (including me). Like the brain, we use far less than the total capacity of what Outlook can do. But here’s where we can help. Meet Laurie Johnson, who spends most of her time managing the calendars...
• CES 2010 v. My Inbox

  7 Jan 2010

  We keep mentioning how big the Consumer Electronics show is because it is, in fact, almost incomprehensibly gigantic. You have to see it to believe it, and even when you see it, you don’t believe it because it’s impossible to see it all. You feel how big it is – with your feet. Unless...
• Listen in on Privacy and the Internet

  30 Oct 2009

  NPR finished up an excellent four part series on your privacy in the age of the Internet. Listen (or read) how Facebook, 9/11, the Constitution, and email all combine to create something tabbed the post-privacy era . Hang on, it’s going to be a bumpy evening. Part Four: Digital Data Make For A Really...
• This or that: Take a card, any card

  31 Aug 2009

  Someone who blogs on this site has a really snazzy electronic business card for Outlook. Truly, it is a business card to be envious of. So, following some instructions , I decided to create some electronic business cards on my own. (I’ll admit, though, that hers is MUCH cooler.) Vote Now! Between these...
• 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...
• Dear Brother: This is how I tamed my email

  10 Jul 2008

  So I'm at dinner with my brother and dad last night, and my brother mentions the email problems at work. I let him know in my old job I had about 750-1000 messages permanently in my inbox. I changed my thinking when I came to Microsoft. As of right now, I have 52 emails in my inbox, including one from...
• Can you read this blog entry without being interrupted?

  25 Jun 2008

  The copious amounts of email in your inbox have had a lot of press lately including the New York Times and a segment on NPR . The gist of it: there is too much and its distracting you from getting your work done. Another NYT article focuses on a frightening statistic: 28% of the time the American worker...
• How many of us don't use email? (The answer may shock you)

  3 Jun 2008

  Today, a study by researcher Parks Associates shows 1 out of every 5 Americans do not use email . That's 20%, folks. The same number (probably the same individuals in the study) have not used the Internet. 30% have never used a computer to create documents; which I assume means 1) they don't need to...