MS Outlook

To the Letter Do you possess one of those extremely large contact lists in MS Outlook? Do you use the address card view in Outlook when you go to the Contacts area? If you answered "yes" to both of those questions, I'm sure you also know the frustration of searching through all those cards looking … Continue reading To the Letter

On the Grid When using MS PowerPoint, do you find that you're frequently trying to align objects? I bet you know the Format menu, Alignment trick after selecting all the objects to be aligned. (Use the Shift key to select multiple items simultaneously). That's a good trick, but I sometimes find myself selecting things and … Continue reading On the Grid

Changing Up the Order Do you use MS Outlook's Task feature? You know, the one that resembles a big "To Do" list? Maybe you've used it to replace all those tasks you would have formerly written on post-its and left all over your desk? Anyway, if you use the task feature to keep track of … Continue reading Changing Up the Order

Quick Outlook Folder Access Have you ever wished for a quick access button to your Inbox, a feature or some other folder you keep in MS Outlook? Maybe you'd like a quick click into your Journal or Calendar, straight from the desktop? If this sounds like a good plan, here's the thing you need to … Continue reading Quick Outlook Folder Access

Mouseless Calendar Displays I'm sure that most users of MS Outlook's calendar feature know that they can quickly choose to display a day, work week, seven day week or a month with just a click of the mouse on either the View menu or the appropriate button. Some of you may know that you can … Continue reading Mouseless Calendar Displays

Change the View to Change the Printout Have you ever tried to print out your contact information from MS Outlook only to find yourself disappointed with the results? Did it contain too much information? Too little? Whatever the concern, I'd like to suggest a quick and easy way to adjust the printout by changing the … Continue reading Change the View to Change the Printout

Two Days In Two Columns Do you use MS Outlook's calendar feature? When using the month calendar, have you ever noticed that Saturday and Sunday are compressed into a single column? This little space saving technique gives you half the space for weekend appointments. Sometimes it's an okay thing and sometimes it's a bad thing. … Continue reading Two Days In Two Columns

Organize It Your Way If you're like me, you find yourself saving lots of Outlook e-mails and always sorting them out into different folders for easy access later. Does it irritate you that every time you create a new folder, Outlook asks you if it should go onto the Outlook bar, then it promptly buries … Continue reading Organize It Your Way

Quick Clicks to Add a New Contact Is MS Outlook your preferred e-mail program? Do you dread all the typing involved in adding addresses in your address book? What would you say if you could have Outlook do all that typing for you? Sounds like a good plan to me! You think so too? I'm … Continue reading Quick Clicks to Add a New Contact

Second Sort Criteria in MS Outlook Most of us know how to sort e-mail messages in Outlook by clicking on the column heading of the field to use as the sort criteria (see today's Quick Tip above). An up arrow is sorting messages in ascending order and a down arrow sorts in descending order based … Continue reading Second Sort Criteria in MS Outlook