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,
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?
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Why does Outlook 2010 make viewing unread messages so hard? The unread message view can be restored to Outlook 2010 fairly easily. In many past versions of Outlook there was a simple list of message views available and one of the choices was ‘Unread Messages’. It’s a popular option because
A useful little feature in Outlook 2010 has been dropped but not removed from the menus. Outlook 2010 has a handy feature to recover some more space for the message reading pane – what a pity it doesn’t work. Screen space is a scare commodity, especially in Outlook 2010 with
What to do about the latest email pest that Outlook isn’t detecting. The latest serial Inbox pest is fake messages that appear to come from the LinkedIn service. Outlook with the latest junk e-mail update doesn’t pick them up. The ‘From’ address is spoofed to appear to come from linkedin.com
Microsoft asks customers for their best calendar designs. Over at Office.Microsoft.com they are running a competition for the best calendar designs for 2011. The competition is for 2011 calendars using either Word, Excel or PowerPoint (2007 or 2010 editions). The entries appear online and the ‘winners’ will be based on the
Two ‘free’ update emails are scams but not detected by Outlook. We check out the ‘red flags’ you should look for in any suspicious or unexpected email. Two similar scam messages have arrived in the last day, they might fool some people and certainly don’t get caught by Microsoft Outlook’s
Some options for making a Gmail like ‘Priority Inbox’ in Outlook. Google’s Gmail service continues to innovate with the addition of a Priority Inbox feature. This feature (being gradually deployed to all Gmail users) puts ‘important’ emails into a special view above the standard Inbox. What is deemed ‘important’ changes
Frustration at trying to link a Window Mobile device to a Windows computer Jo J. writes with frustration at trying to link a Window Mobile device to a Windows computer: “I go buy three products and I real love using office 2010, a breath of fresh air. But I cannot
A new spam email, ignored by Outlook’s spam filter, is supposed to have a spreadsheet file for Excel. A new spam email is arriving in Inboxes, trying to trick Excel users into opening it. This email isn’t detected by the Outlook 2007/2010 spam filter (latest update and configured to ‘High’)
Instyler’s Travel add-in for Outlook lets you block the travel time around an appointment in Outlook calendar. One long-standing problem with Outlook is the lack of a ‘travel time’ option. You can make an appointment but there’s no direct way to include the time it takes to get to and
