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Tips and tricks to get the most out of Microsoft Outlook

You Need to Get Out More

posted Friday, August 18, 2006 5:22 PM by Allister_Frost
It's Friday. And Steve Clayton writes today about how his Out of Office message has taken on a personality all of its own. Mine has too. We all get so many "OOFs" that the very least you can do is inject a little life into your own message. In the spirit Read More
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From Zero to Hero with Outlook

posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:30 AM by Allister_Frost
I have my annual performance review in half an hour. This reminds me of a great little non-technical tip that may help you get even more value out of Microsoft Outlook. Every time you receive an email thanking or praising you for some Read More
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Known Issues in Outlook 2007 Beta 2

posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 8:01 AM by Allister_Frost
Slipstick features a comprehensive article detailing the latest known issues that people encounter while testing Outlook 2007 Beta 2. The most common problems I hear about are caused by incompatible add-ins which can be disabled in the new Tools > Read More
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Start RSSing Around

posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:55 AM by Allister_Frost
If you still don't know your RSS from your elbow it's about time you made use of this very useful techno gizmo. Eileen Brown tells all in this blog posting from many moons ago. And life's even simpler if you're using the shiny new Internet Explorer Read More
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The Mysterious World of Extend Mode in Word and Outlook

posted Monday, July 24, 2006 2:11 PM by Allister_Frost
The Extend Mode in Microsoft Word is an artefact of the early computing era before the mouse was invented (and the natural evolution of that gunky stuff that builds up on your mouse's bottom). Few computer users make use of this feature today because Read More
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Changing Meeting Attendees' Type

posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:15 AM by Allister_Frost
That is, without doubt, the most boring and uninspiring title that I've ever come up with for a blog entry. Sorry. I just couldn't think of a better way of describing this fairly ordinary, but still rather useful, tip. As you may know, when inviting Read More
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Publishing Your Calendar for the World to See

posted Wednesday, July 19, 2006 9:03 AM by Allister_Frost
Earlier this week I blogged about Outlook 2007's new 'Send a Calendar via Email' feature. An even more powerful calendar feature allows you to Publish your Calendar to the Microsoft Office Online Beta* service. After you first use this feature Outlook Read More
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Send a Calendar via Email in Outlook 2007

posted Monday, July 17, 2006 12:01 PM by Allister_Frost
I'm busy testing the latest dogfood version of the new 2007 Microsoft Office system. As I journey ever deeper into the new applications in the system I'm uncovering some really neat features. One of my favourites is Outlook 2007's new Send a Calendar Read More
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Chunking up your time in Outlook

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 8:08 AM by Allister_Frost
  The default calendar view in the Microsoft Outlook shows the day broken up into 30 minute chunks. This make is really easy to add appointments of 30, 60, 90 etc minutes duration but don't feel constrained by this convention. For example, it's Read More
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More on The Best Tip Ever...

posted Friday, July 14, 2006 4:35 AM by Allister_Frost
Jonny_Day has posted a great follow-up comment to my Best Tip Ever posting in which he suggests a neat way to use Search Folders in conjunction with the Conversation View. Check it out here. That's one of the things I love about Microsoft Outlook. There's Read More
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Showing two Timezones in Outlook

posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:57 PM by Allister_Frost
If you travel a lot or work internationally it's very easily to tie your brain up in knots trying to make sense of different time zones. Outlook has a useful feature that allows you to show two different time zones on your calendar so you always Read More
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Go on, see if you can make it bigger

posted Friday, July 07, 2006 7:07 AM by Allister_Frost
There are some things in life that we all wish would just be that little bit bigger. Now, I can't help you in every department but I know I can satisfy your text enlargement requirements with this natty little Microsoft Word keyboard shortcut. So, Read More
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Get back, get back to where you once belonged

posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 2:07 PM by Allister_Frost
Every so often a tip comes along that you really want to memorise. And The Beatles would have called this tip the 'Get Back To Where You Once Belonged" Tip. While editing a document in Microsoft Word (or while composing an email using Word as your Read More
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The Best Microsoft Outlook Tip in the World... ever!

posted Friday, June 23, 2006 1:00 PM by Allister_Frost
In this, my final posting as Exchange/Outlook Product Manager for the UK, I would like to share with you the most powerful productivity tool in Outlook: the delete key. I'll also share a simple workflow you can use right away to help maintain an empty Read More
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New job? Start afresh!

posted Friday, June 23, 2006 10:11 AM by Allister_Frost
I'm moving to a new role at Microsoft on Monday. Which, of course, means new things to learn, new tasks to work on and new people to get to know. Because I'll no longer need to email many of my existing contacts, now is a great time to spring clean Read More
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