Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
If you’re using Outlook on the web and you’re looking at a long attendee list for a meeting, it may take you a while to find the person you’re looking for. Fortunately, there’s now a search function you can use in the attendee list to make it easy to find the person to see if they’ve accepted, declined, or ignored the invite. Here’s how that works…
If you’re using Outlook on the web and you’re looking at the attendee list for a meeting, you’ll notice the name order is pretty much random (probably first come, first serve). That makes it really hard to wade through the list of people to look for someone. Now you can actually sort the list alphabetically. Here’s how that looks…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
