MapiLab has a nice and affordable add-on for Exchange Server 2000 or 2003 systems. Their Exchange Rules product lets admins setup rules on the mail server without messing around with scripts. It’s great to be able to create rules in Outlook to control your email. Move certain messages to folders,
Office 2004 for Mac writes documents differently to Office 2003 for Windows and despite all the promises, there can be problems trying to open a Mac created document in Office for Windows. The biggest concern for anyone thinking of moving to Microsoft Office for Mac is document compatibility. Office for
Outlook 2003 has a junk mail filter but it isn’t perfect, and occasionally you have to delete spam messages yourself. Outlook 2003 has a junk mail filter but it isn’t perfect, and occasionally you have to delete spam messages yourself. You can just hit delete and remove the message or
We talk about some of the less obvious things you can do with the File Open and File Save dialog boxes in Microsoft Office (and many other programs for that matter). BEHIND FILE SAVE AND OPEN Over in an Office Watch article we’ve started a discussion on how people choose to
One reader shares his way to organize documents. It’s something we might take for granted but my eye caught this message from an Office Watch reader: John R writes: “I label folders by topic and sub-topic and files by using the date of origin in the year/month/day sequence, ie this
It’s been strange to watch Apple actively work to exhaust their public goodwill and staff morale with their pursuit of information leaks from their company. It’s been strange to watch Apple actively work to exhaust their public goodwill and staff morale with their pursuit of information leaks from their company.
Corel has sold a 50,000 user license for Word-Perfect to the US Department of Justice. Much crowing about Corel’s sale to the US Department of Justice of a 50,000 user license for Word-Perfect, though we’re not sure how much of a big deal this really is. WordPerfect has long had a
The makers of ‘digital pen’ devices, Pegasus, are happy with the integration of their products with Microsoft OneNote. The makers of ‘digital pen’ devices, Pegasus, are happy with the integration of their products with Microsoft OneNote. Their mobile device is especially interesting. It’s a small box with a combination ink/digital
There’s now a new version of Microsoft’s hosted collaboration tool called Live Meeting. This isn’t software that you buy, rather it’s a service that is hosted by Microsoft that lets you run virtual meetings across the Internet. There’s now a new version of Microsoft’s hosted collaboration tool called Live Meeting.
The excellent Google Desktop Search (GDS) is now out of beta and is a full grown product. The excellent Google Desktop Search (GDS) is now out of beta and is a full grown product. With this first official release comes a set of welcome new features and an established path
We look at Office 2004 for Mac including the similarities to and differences from Office 2003 for Windows. More people are getting Macintosh computers — we’ve heard this claim for many years but now it’s really true. With iPod music players becoming amazingly popular, people are drawn into the Apple
You Software has a utility that can move Outlook file attachments to one or more folders on your hard drive. We’re not too concerned about the size of our Outlook PST/OST file especially since Outlook 2003 has lifted the size limit on the main data file. We like having the
Some prominent ads have been appearing on the web offering Microsoft Office, among other products, at very low prices and with immediate download. Some prominent ads have been appearing on the web offering Microsoft Office, among other products, at very low prices and with immediate download. Usually these offers are
Version 8 of the MS Office wannabe, “Star Office” has now been released as a public beta. Version 8 of MS Office wannabe, Star Office has now been released as a public beta. If you’d like to try it out, start at this Sun website. Naturally Star Office support Microsoft
The best known makers of compression tools, Winzip has now released a small companion program to work directly with Microsoft Outlook. The best known makers of compression tools, Winzip has now released a small companion program to work directly with Microsoft Outlook. WinZip Companion for Outlook saves you the trouble
Having used a Powerbook from Apple for the last six months in tandem with my trusty IBM Thinkpad X31. I have to face the question – do I switch over to the Mac alone? Having used a Powerbook from Apple for the last six months in tandem with my trusty
Slowly, ever so slowly the Instant Messaging companies are getting together and AOL inched partly down that path with a new tool to link Outlook contacts with the AOL Instant Messenger aka AIM. Slowly, ever so slowly the Instant Messaging companies are getting together and AOL inched partly down that
We look at some more advanced Outlook tricks that might be old news to you but have surprised a lot of Outlook users. OUTLOOK TRICKS The latest issue of Office for Mere Mortals has a collection of Outlook tricks that might be old news to you but have surprised a
Adding text to an incoming message might help find it later – especially if the message isn’t clear or comes from an unusual source. After last week’s article, another use for editing an existing email message occurred to us and it relates to the much faster ability to search in
We look at Outlook’s drag feature which lets you can drag an item from one Outlook folder to another and create a new item based on the old one. After last week’s issue of Office for Mere Mortals on Outlook tips we had a lot of similar letters from readers, and
There are some things people do in Outlook that are very useful, but not obvious to others. We detail some of these “hidden” features. RESEND A MESSAGE It’s easy to resend a message you’ve sent in the past either to the same people or others. This is handy if the
Timeslips is a long standing time and billing application that now integrates with Outlook. We noticed Timeslips because it claims to have won a Readers Choice award from Law Office Computing for ten years in a row – not a bad track record. Now the 2005 version has some Outlook
We laughed heartily when we heard about Microsoft allegedly making their Office XML formats open to the public. It sounded ridiculous and sure enough, it was. Here at Office Watch Comedy Central we laughed heartily when we heard about Microsoft allegedly making their Office XML formats open to the public.
A small and presumably deliberate leak from Microsoft about ‘Elixir’ is of little interest to Office users at this stage, if only because this ‘Elixir’ is such a vague and ill-defined wizards brew. A small and presumably deliberate leak from Microsoft about ‘Elixir’ is of little interest to Office users