So are you tired of the normal color background and theme of your Office apps, such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote? Well, you can change them, and here’s how you do it.
Tag: Outlook
Outlook Calendar Attendance Tracking
I learned a really cool little trick today entirely by accident. When I send out a meeting invite to a large group of people, I get a lot of a responses which I usually just delete. However, today I double-clicked and opened up one of the responses (instead of just viewing it in the Reading Pane).
Blocking Junk Mail in Outlook
Into each Inbox some Junk Mail must fall… and we get to play Whack-A-Mole to try and get rid of it. Here are a couple of options for getting junk mail out of your inbox and into your Junk Email folder…
Using AutoText in Outlook Quick Parts
So earlier this week I shared a tip on how to use Quick Parts and AutoText in Word. One of my colleagues at work let me know this feature also exists in Outlook! Here’s how it looks and works there…
Outlook – Minimizing Screen Items
Sometimes there isn’t a lot of room in Outlook to see everything when using the reading pane, especially if you have a smaller monitor or are using a laptop. Here are a few tricks to free up space.
Finding all the emails from a sender in Outlook
Let’s say that a certain boss I report to asks me about an email she sent me, and I’m desperately trying to find it so I don’t look dumber than normal. This Outlook trick can quickly filter down all my emails to only the items she sent me.
Outlook – To-Do Bar
Today I received an email from a colleague indicating that she had recently lost her calendar and task bar on the right side of her screen and asked how to get them back.
Retrieving deleted emails with the Undo feature
Sandra shared this one with me today, and neither of us had thought about using Undo in this fashion. But it works really well for getting an email back that you inadvertently sent to the Deleted Items folder (assuming you use Undo right after you did the delete).
Outlook – Quick Access Toolbar
We recently shared how you can Clean Up Folders in Outlook. If you’d like to skip a couple of steps, here’s a great way to add an action to your Quick Access Toolbar.
