Article archive for 2006 – Page 5

Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Introducing the OutlookPower RSS feeds

By now, you’ve probably noticed the little RSS icons that appeared all over OutlookPower in the past week or so. In this article, we explain what it all means.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

What to do when you’ve got 50 draft messages, plus more .pst questions

We’ve got more .pst questions. We always have more .pst questions. We’ve also got an interesting question about a guy who keeps tons of draft messages and wants to send them all at once. Is he practicing good email hygiene or not? Read this Q&A to find out.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Two things you can’t do in Outlook

Sometimes readers want Outlook to do things that seem reasonable, but which it still doesn’t do. Here are two such examples.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

AOL, Yahoo and the rise of digital racketeering

What AOL and Yahoo are now doing is selling your inbox to the highest bidders. Those that are willing to pay to gain access to your inbox are suddenly "trusted" while those who don’t pay the tax aren’t. To read all about this new surge in digital racketeering, read this very important article.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006

How to selectively share tasks

Sometimes Outlook rules don’t run. What do you do? Read this article to find out.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006

You can’t go back to individual reminders

One of our readers wants to go back to individual reminders, instead of a window listing them all. Can you? If so, how? This Answer Team article has the less-than-satisfying answer.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006

What to do when Outlook rules don’t run

Sometimes Outlook rules don’t run. What do you do? Read this article to find out.

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Sunday, January 1, 2006

Microsoft’s free SNARF add-in can make inbox management easier

Email is a wonderful tool, but it can also be a massive distraction. Vast amounts of mail flowing in can use up hours of your day. And for lots of people, there’s more email coming in than there is time to deal with it all. Triage (ranking and dealing with things in order of importance) of messages is a necessity. That’s where SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, from Microsoft Research comes into the picture.

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