Microsoft entry in the desktop search arena reached v3 – which is important for anyone using Outlook 2007 Windows Desktop Search v3 is out now and can be downloaded from here. This is Microsoft’s rival to things like Google Desktop Search. WDS v3 is a virtually essential part of Outlook
How to add Quick Launch icons for specific folders in Outlook. Getting quickly to the Outlook folder you want can be a little easier if you use the Windows XP Quick Launch toolbar. Any Outlook folder can be dragged onto the Quick Launch toolbar for fast access. If you don’t
Google has expanded their Gmail service into a new area – Google Apps for domains. This might sound very complex and for business but it is neither. Google’s service lets you manage the email accounts for an entire domain – not just a single address. This gives you many options
A new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. As we’ve mentioned in Office Watch, a new security threat known as the VML vulnerability has just been patched by Microsoft. This is important because there’s a possibility of email messages taking advantage of this
If you like the idea of having all your Outlook data accessible in a variety of ways (as we described in the last section) then you might want to try this free service. If you like the idea of having all your Outlook data accessible in a variety of ways
There are many ways to reduce the file size of an image. Many of you will have compression options already installed on your computer as part of Microsoft Outlook or Office. There are many ways to reduce the file size of an image. Many of you will have compression options
How can you email a file that’s too big to be sent even after its been compressed. I think most people know they can squeeze the size of a file using a tool like WinZIP winzip.com, WinRAR rarlabs.com (our personal choice) or many other similar file compressors. Both those products
Windows Live Local is Microsoft’s answer to Google Earth and there’s a free add-in to connect Outlook to the service for maps and directions. Windows Live Local is Microsoft’s answer to Google Earth – an online mapping service available from http://local.live.com/ and there’s a free plug-in to let you integrate
Many readers have asked if Microsoft is trying to stop Office Watch being read! We’d prefer to think not. IS MICROSOFT FILTERING OFFICE WATCH EMAIL? Many readers have asked if Microsoft is trying to stop Office Watch being read! They’ve noticed that our newsletters are sometimes caught in the Outlook
How to setup Outlook to operate for different people on the one machine. OUTLOOK WITH SPLIT PERSONALITIES A mention in a recent issue of our Email Essentials newsletter prompted some questions about how to setup Outlook to operate for different people on the one machine. Starting in this issue we’ll
Notes is a small but useful feature in Microsoft Outlook that can help you to organize all of your electronic notes and clippings. NOTES IN OUTLOOK AND MORE You will often come across information that you want to save for a future reference but don’t have any logical place to
How to switch the Outlook Bar and Folder list in Outlook or Outlook Express. Outlook and Outlook Express both have (depending on the version) an Outlook Bar and a folder list. The Outlook Bar has larger icons against a dark background while the folder list is the more familiar ‘tree’
Whilst the next version of Outlook won’t be out until the second half of 2006 – we’re having ‘fun’ trying out the latest version in its beta format. That’s if you include software crashes, lost documents and hunting for features in your definition of ‘fun’. One thing we did like
Phil Young looks at how to print out an address list based on your Contacts in Outlook 2003. PRINTING AN OUTLOOK ADDRESS/PHONE LIST DIRECTORY Here’s a tip from Phil Young, one of the Office Watch team. Phil had to print out an address book only last night, he worked out
We look at the Outlook 2003 SP2 anti-phishing feature to uncover what’s going on, how the feature works and how effective it is. There’s a lot of talk about Outlook 2003 SP2 and the only new feature in Service Pack 2 – an anti-phishing feature. There’s plenty of talk but
Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability to work with multiple calendars in a single installation of Outlook since at least Outlook 97. However, in Outlook 2003, new functionality was added that makes this feature far more practical and easy to use. By Kara Monroe Microsoft Outlook has provided the capability
Whether you get 5 emails a day or 500 – everyone feels that they get a lot of email. And the more email that we get, the more important it becomes to organize the email. ORGANIZE YOUR EMAIL Whether you get 5 emails a day or 500 – everyone feels
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
Directly view the travel itineraries created by travel agents or airlines. Almost all the travel bookings you make either directly or via an agent get placed on enormous mainframe computers. In recent years these computers have become available to the public, but travel agents and airline like to keep it
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