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Have you ever received an e-mail that looks real but you weren’t quite sure? If so, don’t open it. Lately I’ve received dozens of messages that look like they’re from our IT support department. They looked so convincing that I almost opened the first one. Fortunately I didn’t do it. Spammers are a clever bunch [...]
Read more... Find Who Really Sent an E-mail
If you create the same e-mail on a regular basis, then you will like the Outlook e-mail template tool. Although Outlook’s e-mail template function is hard to find, it is very easy to use. Watch this short video to learn how to do it.
Read more... Save Time with Outlook E-mail Templates
Hey there masochists early adopters it’s official, the beta version of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available for download. All 684MB of it! Just start it up and go have lunch. I’m not quite ready to give it a spin, but I have to sooner or later to start preparing for the latest version of [...]
Read more... Microsoft Office 2010 Beta Now Available
Your daily to do list can seem like a burden if you use it as an inventory of everything you want to accomplish between now and the end of time. Too many people feel as if they accomplish nothing because they’re unable to complete dozens of tasks in a day. Frustrated at the end of [...]
Read more... Balance To Do List with Little Known Outlook Tool
In our earlier article about performing an e-mail audit I promised to demonstrate how to use Outlook’s rules to automatically move your Like to Have messages to specific folders. Outlook gives you two ways to create rules. One is very robust but rather complex. The other is quick, simple and applies to most users’ needs. [...]
Read more... Streamline Your E-mail Inbox with Outlook Rules
If you find yourself deleting a large number of e-mails each day, it is a good idea to take a few minutes to do a quick E-mail Audit to assess the sources. Armed with this information you can take action to reduce your e-mail bloat so that you can focus more time and energy on [...]
Read more... Perform an E-mail Audit to Trim Your Inbox
Microsoft has been giving us sneak peeks at the new Outlook (and the rest of Office) 2010 over the past several months. Recently they released this video that gives as an even closer look under the hood. It hints about some very cool features that can streamline your e-mail management. The mail management features that [...]
Read more... Outlook 2010 E-mail Productivity Features
Yesterday I received calls from three clients asking about an e-mail purportedly from Microsoft about a critical update for Outlook. The Subject line message is from Microsoft Update Center and the subject line “Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Outlook“. When I checked my inboxI noticed that I received two of these messages. At [...]
Read more... Spam Alert – Microsoft Outlook Update E-mail
Your time is your most valuable and finite asset. It’s up to you to protect it. My morning ritual starts with reading Dilbert, Scott Adams’ brilliant comic strip. As you can imagine I was pleased that his topic was about issues with Outlook. While Dilbert’s example is extreme, it shows the plight of many workers [...]
Read more... Dilbert Robbed by Coworkers
Do you ever feel frustrated or just plain angry at yourself because you spend too much time looking for things (often on you desk)? Do you have the same problem wit your stored e-mail? If so you’re not alone. In fact it’s one of the major pains expressed by my clients. Although computers are very [...]
Read more... Find E-mail Documents in a Snap