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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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Create an informal "Out of Office" reply message for Outlook 2007 with today's free template. Just click the image to download the template to your computer.
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Someone who blogs on this site has a really snazzy electronic business card for Outlook. Truly, it is a business card to be envious of. So, following some instructions , I decided to create some electronic business cards on my own. (I’ll admit, though,
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Has your boss approved you to work from home (WFH) part or maybe all of the time? In my office, WFH appears with increasing frequency in e-mail subject lines. And I barely know my co-workers are gone … sorry, comrades. My co-worker Cynthia works remotely
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I've talked to you about the importance of the out of office message (OOF) before: In Crabby's get-away-from-it-all checklist we went over the Out of Office Assistant (the feature — when you're using Outlook with Exchange Server — that lets you create
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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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(You can read Cabby's full blog post at on the Crabby Office Lady blog ) Everybody has problems. You think Angelina Jolie doesn’t have problems? Two words: 6 kids. (OK, three more words: 7 and under.) You think Warren Buffett doesn’t have problems? What
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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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If you are using Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, or Excel, SmartArt graphics are the answer to illustrating your documents, e-mail, slideshows, or worksheets. Here are five video demos, including the top-ranked family tree demo, to get you started with SmartArt
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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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A teammate was wondering how to stop the flow of email from her business Outlook account over a long weekend. For a Windows Mobile 5.x or 6.x device, here's what you can do: Office Casual: How to separate work and home on your phone There is an alternate
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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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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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Ever clicked "reply all" and then completely panicked? Inadvertently emailed your boss a blue streak about...your boss? Sent something a little too personal to the wrong person, or more likely 100 of them? Check out this video from videojug.com about
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