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I think Outlook is the Office product offering the most great features that people don’t use (including me). Like the brain, we use far less than the total capacity of what Outlook can do. But here’s where we can help. Meet Laurie Johnson, who spends
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My teammates Joannie Stangeland and Michael Oldenburg produce the video series "A Writer's Guide to Office." This recent episode about pairing OneNote with Outlook to track submission deadlines and records has already helped me revamp my own poetry submission
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( Office Hours columns are conceived and written by Microsoft employees -- for the times when only insider information will do.) If you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have three large flat screen displays that sit together
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A bad economy is good time to put your best foot forward, whether that means becoming the Office products expert in your workplace, or adding new job skills to your resume. Office Online offers a catalog of free training courses , each one anywhere from
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There are more than a dozen ways to follow Twitter, but TwInbox (formally known as OutTwit in its beta stages) places some powerful Outlook capabilities in the hands of us Twitters. Here's a short video on TwInbox . Office Casual: How to Twitter in Outlook
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What? You haven’t heard about Office Podcasts ? Then you probably don’t know that we published our 100th amazing podcast episode . Neither did my boss, so I’m sharing my hot top 10 Office podcasts with you and him. If you haven’t experienced the growing
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How would like to make a quick call and do things in Outlook like send email, schedule meetings, and create notes? I made this Office Causal video about a service called Jott and a nifty free add-in from Office Online. You can learn more about Jott here
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Wondering how to set up distribution lists in Outlook? Here's our answer to that ever-popular question. Quick video : Watch this: Create a distribution list in Outlook 2007 Full text: Create and edit a distribution list in Outlook 2007 Outlook 2003 version
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Do you love movies? Is the Internet Movie Database bookmarked in your browser? Are you secretly giddy in anticipation of the Academy Awards this Sunday? Well, then I’ll bet it’s also true that you have an excellent idea for a screenplay that you’ve been
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Nothing could be less newsworthy than standard fonts in Outlook and Word, right? Wrong. Sean Fallon on Gizmodo: The Gadget Blog, reports that the Microsoft font Calibri, introduced in 2007 and used as the default font in Outlook, helped uncover a strange
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With the mixed bag of brilliant innovations and petty annoyances that come with modern life, getting organized is a perennial challenge. Some folks are naturally brilliant at it but I suspect they're all either engineers or parents with multiple kids
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I told you a while back that we’re listening to you . In fact, we love to hear from you. Not a day or a meeting goes by that we don’t review and discuss your feedback. Almost everything that goes on around here is identified and prioritized and implemented
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You probably have thought about writing a witty, funny, and catchy out of office message. Perhaps, you've seen our ealier post " Out of office or out to lunch? " and maybe, just maybe, you've thought about doing a nice practical joke. Something like:
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Our ongoing mission at Office Online is to help our customers understand how to use our products so that they can become more effective, more efficient and productive. (Read: get out of the office early because you're so good at what you do!). One of
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If you haven't noticed yet, we've now published our Top Hits for 2007 . This is our annual collection of readers' favorite templates, downloads, columns and more. Some of them are perennial favorites, while there's always a good sprinkling of new items
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