Problems with iCloud and Outlook
An iCloud link with Outlook sounds great, a pity it doesn’t work in the real world.Lots of iPhone and iPad users got excited when they learned about iCloud and its ability to sync mail, calendar, contacts and tasks with Outlook via the Internet. Hold the applause, if you actually try to use iCloud’s links to […]
iCloud and Microsoft Outlook
How to sync Outlook to your Apple devices with iCloud and why it sucks. Apple’s iCloud service provides a way to synchronize some parts of Outlook with your Apple iPhone, iTouch or iPad but it doesn’t work as most people would like. Before iCloud, you could synchronize your Outlook Contacts, Calendar and Tasks via iTunes. […]
Outlook and Doppelganger domains
How you can protect yourself against mail being intercepted by a fake domain The Godai Group have made a big splash with their report on ‘doppleganger domains’ that can spy on emails to and from an organization, but what can Outlook users do about it? What is a Doppleganger domain? It’s a domain name similar […]
Office 365 email size limit
Exactly how large a message can you have with Office 365? Office Watch has managed to get to the bottom of the email size mystery with Office 365. The official size limit for incoming and outgoing messages is stated as 25MB Behind that number lies a tale. During the Office 365 beta, the email size […]
Uniform Traffic Ticket
Outlook doesn’t see a scam traffic ticket. At Office Watch, we love finding a new email scam that Outlook’s Junk Email filter doesn’t catch. New to our Inbox are fake traffic tickets from New York. Do we need to tell you they are fakes? The reply address is fake whether it’s from nyc.gov , policeagency.com […]
Clever twist on the stranded traveler scam
The stranded traveler scam is fairly new and we’ve just heard of a clever little twist. The stranded traveler scam is a way to profit from hacking into someone’s webmail account. Understanding how it works will help prevent you and your friends from being a victim. It works like this. You get an email from […]
Outlook settings NOT to use: Spam
Some anti-spam settings to avoid in Outlook We spend a lot of time writing about Outlook settings and how to use them. It occurred to us that there are settings we don’t talk about because they are NOT good and best avoided. In the past we looked at Navigation Buttons. This time we’ll look at […]
Outlook 2010 email zoom options
Outlook 2010 has several options for reading a message without opening it but it could be better. Down on the bottom right corner of Outlook 2010 are some controls for reading messages in the reading pane. The Reading Pane is the newer name for what most of us call the preview pane. It’s now the […]
Gmail shoots itself in the foot – offline
Google removes a key feature from Gmail without proper explanation and before a replacement is ready. Google has disabled the key ‘offline mail’ feature in Gmail without warning, without clear notice and only for its own Chrome browser users! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. For some time, Gmail has had a nifty ‘offline’ […]
Outlook – see more with New Window
One important but hidden feature in Outlook will let you see more and faster. Outlook has a lot of different aspects; email, calendar, contacts etc and we see many people switching between them, waiting for different views to load …. and they don’t have to. If you click on a folder or navigation icon the […]
Outlook – see more with the Folder List
Put more useful navigation options on the Outlook screen. The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit you, not some corporate agenda […]
Navigation Buttons: Outlook settings NOT to use
Navigation Buttons take up valuable space you can better use in Outlook – here’s how. The navigation buttons are the ones on the left of Outlook ‘Mail’ ‘Calendar’ ‘Contacts’ etc. They are big, space gobbling buttons designed for new Outlook users – once you’re past the very basics there’s better uses for the screen space. […]
Outlook won’t connect
What to do when Outlook won’t reconnect to Exchange Server Ira J writes from his work laptop: “I have Outlook on my laptop for work. I leave it on all the time whether I’m connected to the Internet or not. Sometimes Outlook won’t connect to the office even when there’s a net connection and it […]
Kama Sutra presentation is malware
It promises a raunchy PowerPoint presentation, but gives you a malware Trojan instead. A nasty email is doing the rounds promising a PowerPoint presentation of the Kama Sutra but includes a program to take control of your computer as well. Sophos is reporting that an infected email is about to tempt PowerPoint users looking to […]
Free manuals for Microsoft Office
Free training manuals for Office 2007 and before plus Quick References for Office 2010. Mouse Training in the UK has released their training manuals free for all comers plus some Quick Reference Guides. The Training Manuals are for Office 2007, Office 2003, Office XP (2002) and Office 2000. They cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, […]
Why long subject lines aren’t a good idea
Yes, you can type a long subject to an email, but it’s not much help to the reader. Recently we’ve received quite a few emails with long subject lines, sometimes only a subject with no message at all! We explain why they are difficult to read in Outlook despite Outlook letting you type them in […]
