This little trick is handy if you have a list of email addresses in Excel, and you want to use that list to send everyone an email using Outlook. It’s really nothing more than copy and paste!
Tag: Outlook
Outlook – Group Conversations and Clean Up Folder
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.
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…
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.
Meeting Reminders in Outlook
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.
