Using the Follow RSVP option in Outlook on the web

In today’s world of too many meetings, you likely find yourself double- and triple-booked all day long. You feel like you have to accept all the meetings as they are important and you want to keep track of things, but it turns your calendar into a nightmare, and the organizer doesn’t know whether you truly will or will not be there. Now, you can use Outlook on the web (or the New Outlook for Windows client if you’re using that) to RSVP with a Follow option. Here’s what that looks like and how it works…

Outlook on the web – Changes to your Account Settings

When going to update some account settings in Outlook on the web, I noticed that certain things were missing in terms of where I normally would find them… such as the Automatic replies and Signatures. Turns out they’ve been moved from the Mail tab to the new Account tab. Here’s what that looks like now…

Microsoft Outlook: Copy meeting attendee responses to clipboard

This is a new feature that has been asked for on numerous occasions. Now in an Outlook meeting, you can copy the attendee list (and status) to your clipboard… or even export it to a CSV file! This should be out to everyone by late December, and here’s what you’ll see when it shows up…

Creating an Outlook calendar entry from an email on Outlook on the web (and New Outlook)

This may be a new trick for some of you… In the classic Outlook client, you can drag an email over to the calendar icon on the left-side navigation bar, and Outlook will automatically create a calendar entry using that email content. Unfortunately, you didn’t have that same ability if you were using Outlook on the web or the New Outlook client. Now you can! Here’s how that works using Outlook on the web, and you should be able to do the same in the New Outlook client…

Creating hyperlinks in Outlook on the web

We ran across a cool little tip this week that pertains to Outlook on the web. Instead of having to click a hyperlink icon to add a link (or use CTRL-K to get a dialog box), you can just highlight the word in your email and paste the link over it… voila! You have a hyperlink! Here’s how that works…

Using the My Templates feature in the Outlook client

Do you often have short repetitive emails that you send out, and you wish there was an easier way to create the emails without having to retype them or use copy and paste? You might want to check out the My Templates feature in the Outlook client. Here’s how it works…

Sending meeting reminder emails from Outlook on the web

Sandra found a really cool feature that’s somewhat buried in the calendar that you have on Outlook on the web. It’s the ability to have Outlook send a reminder email to your attendees prior to your meeting based on whatever lead time you want! This is a really cool feature that takes meeting reminders up a notch. Here’s how that works…

Right-Click RSVP options for meetings in Outlook on the web

It used to be that if you were using Outlook on the web for your calendar and you wanted to RSVP a meeting invite, you had to either open up the calendar entry or navigation through an RSVP fly-out menu if you right-clicked on the meeting entry. Now, the Yes/No/Maybe options are available at the main level of the right-click menu. Here’s how it looks…

Conditional Formatting for Outlook on the web

If you have a lot of emails in Outlook on the web, you might wish you had a way to make emails that fix a particular category stand out from the others. Now you can do that with Conditional Formatting, Here’s how that works and looks…