Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
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.
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.
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…
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.
It’s a pretty safe bet these days that we’re all swamped with meetings on our calendars, and we need a reminder when the next meeting is due to start. Here’s how to set up Reminders on your calendar entries (both for yourself and for others you invite to the meeting), as well as how to hit the Snooze button on the alarm.
I received a great tip from Tamara Bredemus yesterday when it came to searching for mail in Outlook. She needed to narrow down her inbox to only show items for a two week period. By using the received keyword in the search bar, she easily made that happen. Here’s how…
In Outlook, you can send an email with simple voting options to get quick feedback from people.
Sandra showed me a cool trick last week that I was unaware of. She likes to keep her Outlook Folder Pane minimized down the left side of the screen, but I’ve always disliked it because it didn’t list the folders I cared about. She fixed that problem by showing me how to add Favorites there! Here’s how you do it…
But sometimes I read something that is a bit more general, but is *very* important in terms of being effective with the Office tools that you have. In this case, I read the following article: How to Write Effective Emails that People Will Actually Read.
One Minute Office Magic 