MS Outlook

Keyboard Shortcuts For Outlook Folders Do you use Outlook 2002 or a newer version? If so, do you find yourself frequently navigating through the folder list? Or, maybe you spend a lot of time clicking on the Outlook Bar, jumping from place to place. You may even know the basic shortcuts for jumping to the … Continue reading Keyboard Shortcuts For Outlook Folders

Customize Today So, if you read the Outlook Today tip from Friday's newsletter, you might be wondering what type of options you have regarding this little feature. Well, wonder no more, because that's just what we're going to look at today. I don't know if you noticed, but the Outlook Today window had the customize … Continue reading Customize Today

Outlook Today So, what do you do first thing in the morning when you open MS Outlook? Do you find yourself quickly flipping between the Inbox, Calendar and Tasks to see how your day is shaping up? Would you like a summary of that information, instead of all the immediate flip flopping around? Well, then … Continue reading Outlook Today

SpellCheck in Outlook Too Many of us rely on the spellcheck feature in MS Word and PowerPoint, so why not in Outlook? Or, maybe you do, but you're doing so by activating the feature manually before sending out each message. Either way (manual operation or none at all), why not set Outlook to behave like … Continue reading SpellCheck in Outlook Too

Desktop Alerts: Yes or No? Do you use MS Outlook 2003? Ever see something like this pop up on your desktop? Yep, that's Outlook's desktop alert. It's a pretty cool little item that lets you open or delete an e-mail from your current location, if you are quick enough with the mouse to catch the … Continue reading Desktop Alerts: Yes or No?

One Click to Address All Do you frequently find yourself addressing your Outlook e-mails to the same group of people? You know, over and over again, you end up building the "To" field with the same set of names. Tired of repetitive work? If you answered yes, then I've got good news for you! What … Continue reading One Click to Address All

It's Always Important Are you one of those people who e-mail very little and when you do, you mark more of them with a High Propriety status than not? Ever wish you could change MS Outlook to use that High Importance setting as your default, leaving you to change the priority downward for the few … Continue reading It's Always Important

Across Zones Do you frequently travel into a different time zone? Maybe you have a job that requires you to hop back and forth between two time zones and you're certainly tired of your computer never being in time with you. Whatever your situation, the time change can be annoying and confusing. You could go … Continue reading Across Zones

Clock It Did you know that you can get MS Outlook's calendar feature to display appointment times on a clock instead of plain old text? Turn something like this: Into this: Now, while I can see some people not taking a liking to the little clocks on their calendars, I can also imagine the people … Continue reading Clock It

Time for a Holiday Yes, I know the holidays are over, but we're going to visit the MS Outlook calendar feature once again and today's question is: Does your calendar contain holidays? No? What's a calendar without the holidays? To add them, you'll need to go to the Tools menu, Options choice. Next, we're looking … Continue reading Time for a Holiday