There’s an exceedingly simple way for you to share your Outlook contacts with colleagues or friends. All you need to do is highlight a contact:
Right click on the contact, and select “Forward.” Doing so will create an email as shown below; in this case I’ve addressed the email to myself and added a simple message. [...]
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Faithful LifeApps readers know that I don’t have a lot of patience with email and favor an aggressive approach to managing your Inbox.
Occasionally however, we’ll receive emails which require more time to respond to - and/or which don’t require a response immediately. OR… they’ll require collaboration with several colleagues who you’d like to meet with [...]
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Everyone at some point in their professional or personal life sends an email that they instantly realize - in that moment of extraordinary clarity or lucidity that invariably follows doing something monumentally stupid - they shouldn’t have sent.
What can you do if you somehow cleverly manage to send out a boneheaded, career-limiting message? (Or if [...]
About every 8 weeks or so the merry pranksters in our IT Department send everyone in our company a friendly message like this:
This is just swell, but what if some of the emails you want to hang on to have really large attachments - but need to go to free up space?
Or, what if you’re [...]
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Do you want to have zero emails in your In Box but are confused by the glut of articles on the internet about how to go about getting there? Are you intimidated by the notion of consolidating all your email accounts into Gmail, setting up 37 different Outlook rules, & having 18 folders [...]
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Face it: each working day is a battle between your efforts to impose order on your working life in the face of the chaos that each day invariably brings. Between interruptions, unplanned work, impromptu meetings, endless emails and non-important phone calls, it’s a wonder any of us gets anything of significance done. How can you [...]
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In a matter of moments you can make a favorite web site - including my.msn or iGoogle - your Startup Page in Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007. Just follow these 5 simple steps:
1. Create a new folder anywhere in the folder tree (File/New Folder or just right click on your In Box folder and select [...]
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This post from blogger Adam Wright is a straightforward How-To which shows you step by step how to utilize Outlook’s rules to organize your emails.
Following Adam’s instructions, I created several rules which enable me to send certain message types into several “Favorite” folders (see screenshot on the next page; these folders appear at the upper [...]
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