Learning new Microsoft Office tricks in "just a minute"
If your organization is spread out over multiple time zones, it can be hard to set up a meeting if you’re not aware of what time it might be for a particular group of people. Maybe a 4 pm meeting is good for you on the west coast of the US, but it would be 7 pm for those on the east coast. Now, if you’re using Outlook on the browser, you can see the attendee time zones when using the Scheduling Assistant. Here’s what that looks like…
have found it frustrating that you couldn’t sort your Inbox by Categories. Well, now you can! Here’s how that works…
hen you get a calendar invite in Outlook, it will show you if there’s a conflict with other things already on your calendar. If you’re using Outlook on the browser, you now can pop open a display of your calendar to easily see what those conflicts actually are. Here’s how that works…
As you may be aware, you can create a clickable hyperlink that opens a new email automatically addressed to someone, along with a subject link. However, sometimes it’s a bit difficult to remember the format and syntax of the link. If you’re doing this in the Outlook client, there’s an easy way to get the link created and formatted properly without having to remember any of the parameters. Here’s how that works…
If you’re using Outlook on the web, you have a new feature that can be very useful. You can now choose to have meetings that you decline show up in your calendar, but not mark that time as busy. This is great when you want to be able to get back to a meeting invite that may have files or agenda information that you need to view at a later time. Here’s how that works…
If you are part of a shared Outlook calendar, it can be frustrating to try and keep up with changes to that calendar that you didn’t make. Now, using the web-based Outlook calendar, you can access a new setting that will allow you to receive notifications as changes are made to that shared calendar. Here’s how to set that up…
When you’re working in Outlook on the web, you may have noticed that by default, the reading pane is just a blank canvas. If you’d like to “jazz it up a bit”, you can put a background image on the reading pane to add some color. Here’s how that looks and works…
Have you ever had an important email that you want to keep at the top of your inbox no matter how old it is? You can do that in the browser-based version of Outlook by pinning it. Here’s how that looks…
It’s not unusual to have emails appear in the Junk Email folder in Outlook. However, you may find that a particular sender or an email domain that’s going to Junk Email should really be considered a “safe sender” and appear in your Inbox. Here’s how to make that happen in Outlook, both for the Outlook client and for Outlook on the web.
