Have you ever received an email, then a reply to that email, and another reply to that email, and another, and so on? Have you felt like you should review each email to see what had changed in order to make sure you hadn’t missed anything?
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Ignoring emails in an Outlook conversation thread
There is an Ignore feature in Outlook that allows you to move all the current (and future) emails in a particular thread or conversation into the Delete folder.
Separating email addresses in Outlook using commas
If you’ve been using email clients (like Outlook) for years like I have (translation: I’m old), you may have become used to using the semicolons to separate email addresses in the To, CC, and BCC fields. But you *can* make a change in Outlook to allow the use of commas.
Locking the Track Changes feature in Word
Sometimes the Track Changes feature in Word is a nice convenience, but at other times it’s a critical requirement to make sure no one changed the contents of a document. To prevent someone from hiding their changes by turning off the Track Changes feature, you can add a password to lock people out from turning it on and off. Here’s how that works…
Alternative Use of Outlook’s Email Signature Feature
Today’s tip comes to us via a work colleague… I didn’t know that the Signature feature in Outlook could be used in so many different ways! Check out the two links below for details on how to create, use, and manage signatures.
The key to inserting any of your signatures in an email is to place your cursor within the body of the email (wherever you’d like the signature text to go) and select Insert > Signature.
Marking emails as read from the Reading Pane in Outlook
So this was a new one for me… I use the Reading Pane in Outlook quite a bit, but I didn’t realize you could control how long it takes for an email to be marked as Read based on how long it appears in the Reading Pane. Here’s how you do it…
Break out of your rut with Office templates
When I go to start a new Word document or Excel file, I nearly always take the default blank template in the upper left corner. However, I recently decided to scroll down and see what Excel file templates were out there. I was amazed at what options I had to create something that was “out of the ordinary”.
Adding team member calendars to Outlook
One of my colleagues pointed out a really cool trick for quickly adding all the calendars of your team members to your Outlook client without having to look each one up individually.
