Article archive for 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Say goodbye to the Uh-Ohs. Long live the Tens.

Ten years have gone by since we all worried about Y2K and we’re still not driving flying cars.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

How to have a clean inbox in 2010

2010 is right around the corner, and a new year always feels like a fresh start. Don’t your email accounts deserve a fresh start too?

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Where they’re hiding message headers and options in Office 2010

If you get a lot of junk mail, you’re eventually going to have to look at a message’s headers. Unfortunately, the ability to do this is hidden in Outlook 2010.

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

A look at Outlook 2010 Conversation Grouping

You will buy the Office 2010 upgrade just for this feature.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Email your holiday greeting without losing that personal touch

Great aunt Mildred might want to get a physical card, but these days, email is the way to go. It’s becoming more and more accepted. Just because you send out email holiday greetings, that doesn’t mean you don’t really care. In this article, I’ll show you some tricks for looking like you care as much as you really do, even though you’re using email instead of dead trees.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Give thanks for the Office 2010 beta. Mmmm. Good.

Are you one of those people who likes to live life on the edge of technology? Do you download every beta and pre-release you can get your hands on, just so you can have bragging rights to be the first on your block with something new? If you’re one of those people, this might be for you.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Breaking all the rules on the 32K rules limit

Reader Ralph McNall from AT&T Labs asks how he can get by the 32K rules limit

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

Printing notes with contacts in Outlook 2007

Our reader asks how to print notes with contacts in Outlook 2007. We explained how to do this with Outlook 2003, but the instructions from that article don’t work in Outlook 2007. Fortunately, intrepid cub reporter Joe Dolittle investigates, and reports a solution.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Analysis: Microsoft’s plan to open the PST format

The really big news is Microsoft’s plan to open up the PST format.

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Two crude Outlook rule hacks

Rules are always a bit funky in Outlook, and Outlook doesn’t explicitly implement AND logic in rules — but there is a way to hack it.

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