Article archive for 2006 – Page 4

Monday, May 1, 2006

What to do when reminders go kapooie

We once again revisit the problem of reminders in Outlook. In this article, we present a number of detailed steps you can take when your reminders go kapooie.

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Monday, May 1, 2006

Where’d my account information go?

OutlookPower reader Colin Evans moved his Personal Folder file to a new system and, when he did, the email account information was blank. He wants to know: it possible the email account information is not held in the PST file?

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Saturday, April 1, 2006

Solving that pesky winmail.dat problem

What is winmail.dat and why is it annoying your email recipients? If you want to fix the problem, read this article.

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Saturday, April 1, 2006

Writing a rule and a quick step into server programming

Do you want to create a funky Outlook rule that might talk to Web servers? Are you thinking about learning how to program? This article has it all.

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Saturday, April 1, 2006

Moving from ACT! to BCM

If you’re an Outlook 2003 user, you may not realize you’ve got a very powerful business contact manager right at your fingertips. Microsoft’s Business Contact Manager (better known as BCM) is a free add-on to Outlook, available to anyone’s who owns Office 2003 Professional. Unfortunately, because BCM is a free download, it’s virtually unsupported by Microsoft in terms of documentation and help. But that’s about to change with an ebook by Lon Orenstein entitled Moving from ACT! to Microsoft’s Business Contact Manager.

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Saturday, April 1, 2006

The email marketing conundrum: how to send legitimate email to your list

Back in the day, if you had a few hundred or a few thousand customers, clients, or even authors, you could just bang out an email in Outlook and send to everyone. But with ISPs blocking even small mailings (say, 50 people), we’ve got a new problem: how do we get the word out? In this important and exclusive article, we turn to Missy Lucnik, one of the industry’s leading experts, to get you that answer.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Outlook contacts and printing

We get a lot of contact printing questions. In this OutlookPower Answer Team article, we answer a few of them.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Getting things done with the Getting Things Done Outlook add-in

Admit it. You have more to do than you can possibly get done. More stuff to track than attention to track it with. We’re all this way these days. The flood of work and activities and responsibilities seems to grow by the day. How do you deal with this reality? As an Outlook user, a LOT of the stuff you need to deal with in your life probably flows in and out through Outlook. The Getting Things Done Outlook add-in (GTD add-in) enhances Outlook by adding buttons and views that make it easy to use the GTD approach with Outlook. Should you use this add-in? Read this article by Contributing Editor Bill Mann to find out.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Making it easier to annoy your friends

Why must we mock those who love us? That’s a fundamental life question we don’t even come close to answering in this slightly twisted take on our usual OutlookPower Q&A. A reader wants to know how to send friends and family spam to his friends with a little extra effort. We mock him, then give him a potentially useful suggestion.

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

How to hide fax numbers in Outlook

Reader John Montel beseeches the "OutlookPower Gods" for help on how to hide fax numbers. We turn to Outlook God Mike Sperry for a detailed and helpful answer, which you can read in this article.

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