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email , Outlook

• How the new Office helps me manage my "mompreneur" life

  6 Jun 2013

  Guest blogger Erica Diamond is the founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning women's lifestyle blog, WomenOnTheFence.com , and the new global Get Off The Fence Movement . As a busy blogger, mom, entrepreneur, coach and TV correspondent, I need to be organized. Microsoft Office has been keeping...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...