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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
Office 2013 and Windows 8 is a bad combo if you want subtle mail alerts. Anyone trying Outlook 2013 Preview on Windows 8 is in for an unpleasant surprise – mail Desktop Alerts have changed and not for the better. In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 there are mail desktop
Sanebox is an interesting twist on email organizing. Sanebox is a new service receiving acclaim for the novel way to arrange your email. Usually, email organizing is done when messages arrive. The incoming message is moved to a folder, tagged, changed priority etc according to preset rules. Sanebox is a
If you don’t like outlook.com you can return to Hotmail – for now. If you’ve tried Outlook.com mail service and don’t like it, you can switch back to the Hotmail interface easily. On the top right of the Outlook.com page is a ‘gear’ icon, click on that and then choose
The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. The new version of Hotmail is called ‘Outlook’ – just ‘Outlook’ – at least on the web site itself. In the promotional material for the new service it’s called Outlook.com which
How to connect Outlook software to Outlook.com With the announcement of Outlook.com as a replacement for Hotmail there was one glaring omission – how to sync with Outlook software. Now we know why – the existing Hotmail connector to Outlook software does work but hasn’t been updated yet. So the
The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. The latest version of Hotmail has some interesting features and an invitation to confusion. It’s called Outlook.com and is available as a preview now. Go to Outlook.com and sign in with your Microsoft, Windows Live or
How to schedule your Olympic viewing with Outlook. At the risk of attracting the attention of the, now infamous, Olympic Branding Police … we’d like to give you some Olympic related tips for Outlook and Office users. With so many events being broadcast live, scheduling your time isn’t going to
A fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks, Organizing Outlook Email, for Outlook 2010 We’re delighted to announce a fully revised new edition of one of our most popular ebooks Organizing Outlook Email for Outlook 2010 We’ll take you through all the email management features available
Outlook 2013 takes a backward step in readability. Grab a ruler and it’s easy to see how Microsoft has wasted screen space with Outlook 2013. The message view with preview turned off uses about 20% more vertical space than Outlook 2007 – That means less messages visible on the screen
