Boston Bombing and Texas explosion nasty emails
Really obvious spam/phishing messages not caught by Microsoft’s spam filters.You’d think that a very short message with only a web link that has an IP number not domain name would go straight to the Junk Email folder but no. On our test machines (Exchange Server and Outlook 2013 with the latest spam filters from Microsoft […]
Simple and free email signatures for Outlook
StartSSl offers free digital certificates for your Outlook email – here’s how to get yours Email digital signatures aren’t used a lot which is a shame because they are very useful. Signed emails are verified to come from you while it’s possible to encrypt your messages (to prevent anyone else reading them) when both you […]
Is your photo showing in everyone’s Outlook?
Control your Facebook photo as displayed to others via Outlook. Are you aware that your Facebook photo shows up for anyone with Outlook? We ask because at Office-Watch.com we see a lot of readers emails and some of the photos make us wonder is the sender realizes the Facebook shot is so widely seen. Some […]
Outlook 2013 To Do bar limitations
The 2013 To-Do bar is a step back in usefulness. The Outlook 2013 To-Do bar isn’t as useful as the Outlook 2010 version – at least for the calendar. The Outlook 2010 version shows future appointments for the current and next day. But in Outlook 2013 that’s been inexplicably reduced to the current day only. […]
Office 2013: the real startup guide
Our famous guide to Office, saving money, install and new features. Now for Office 2013. Many of you figured it was coming and now it’s here … Office 2013: the real startup guide is available now. “Things you need to know that Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, installing, configuring and using Office 2013” Only $9.95 […]
Outlook 2013 mysteries
‘New’ features in Outlook 2013 aren’t at all new. Sometimes the promotion of a new Office either gets too enthusiastic or is deliberately misleading – it’s hard to tell which. For Outlook 2013 there’s two examples of ‘new’ features that aren’t that new at all. Is Microsoft deliberately over-egging the sales pitch or are the […]
Ultramon
Add better multi-monitor support for Windows As you put your Office applications across more than one monitor, you’ll find the need for better controls than the ones in Windows. That’s where UltraMon comes in. These days it’s common to see two monitors with Office programs and browser windows open across both. A couple of Outlook […]
Email fraud detection: the key phrases
What to look for in emails that might be up to no good. Ernst and Young in conjunction with the FBI has developed a tool to check for fraud via email conversations. The software looks for key phrases that are often used when people are discussing something they should not be doing. That’s useful for […]
Demon of Writing in the 21st century
How we can change as ‘paperwork’ has changed. A new book has an interesting take on how culture and business has changed as paperwork and filing has changed. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork by Ben Kafka is about bureaucracy and paperwork, something rarely considered by historians. These days ‘paperwork’ has changed […]
Is there a way to only search Outlook attachments?
Can you find text only within email attachments? A standard Outlook search will include text in attachments automatically, just type in the word or phrase and Outlook will go hunting for you. A reader asks if you can limit the search to just the attachments and not the message text? Click on ‘Has Attachments’ from […]
Use Gmail even when it’s broken
How to keep getting your Gmail even when it’s not working Gmail had another outage which continues as we type this, at least that’s how it was reported. In fact the core Gmail system was still working, only the web interface was broken. This has happened before and Office-Watch.com has talked about how to workaround […]
More on Outlook, time zones and Worldmate
Delving more into the problem of Worldmate and Microsoft Outlook with time zones. As we noted in our brief look at Worldmate, the calendar import into Outlook isn’t as good as it could be, in fact it could be downright dangerous! The Worldmate calendar data can be off by an hour as in this example. […]
Worldmate and Outlook
Worldmate is a clever travel organizer which talks to Outlook. One of the tedious parts of travelling is entering all the details into Outlook calendar. Typing in flights, hotels etc is a pain but necessary because once in Outlook the details will appear anywhere you have the calendar synced like a smartphone. Worldmate is one […]
Even the Taliban makes mistakes
The Taliban sends CC’s instead of BCC’s and reveals their contact list. It’s somehow comforting to know that even the worlds most feared terrorist group can make email mistakes just like anyone else. ABC News in the USA reports that Qari Yousuf Ahmedi, a Taliban spokesman, sent out a press release. We’re not entirely sure […]
What’s the use of Outlook’s Journal?
Is Journal in Outlook of any use to you? You might have noticed the Journal part of Outlook and wondered what it’s all about. Possibly you’ve clicked on Journal and got no further than this dialog: In this article we’ll look at Journal and help you decide if it might apply to your needs. Journal […]
How do you manage your Inbox
There’s many ways you can arrange your Inbox in Outlook. Whenever we look at the Outlook setup used by other people, two things are striking. One is that few people change the default layout provided by Microsoft to something that suits them. We’ll look at that another time. The other thing is the different ways […]
