Outlook

Keep Outlook from triggering new mail alerts

ITworld staff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:36:18 -0500

Here's how to turn off Outlook's email alerts for new messages. Plus, you can set up custom rules to generate alerts only when important people send messages.

Gartner tells us what’s wrong with this picture

Joel Shore — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:36:41 -0400

As if the current economic climate wasn’t bad enough, research firm Gartner is out with its Top Ten list of “most contentious IT issues for the next two years.” It should be required reading for every solutions provider.

ACT revamp focuses on Outlook integration

ITworld staff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:49:52 -0400

Sage Software Tuesday shipped the 11th edition of its customer contact management software, ACT, tightening the product's integration with Microsoft Outlook.

Customizing your default Outlook template

jnaze — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:54:03 -0400

Outlook gurus at Microsoft offer steps to solve this problem - anytime you create a new message, the body of the message is centered instead of left-aligned.

Windows Tip: Creating template emails for Outlook 2007

jnaze — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:50:04 -0400

Here's how to create an email template in Outlook 2007 for emails that you commonly send out.

Windows Tip: Copying email messages using Outlook rules

jnaze — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:23:14 -0500

I was messing around with my Outlook rules the other day and discovered something interesting, namely that if you don't watch what you're doing, you might end up with multiple copies of some of your emails! Here's a simple example of how this can happen...

Outlook 2007 formatting tips

jnaze — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:09:52 -0500

Recently, I pointed out how to retrieve misplaced email in Outlook 2007. I said that if you wanted to issue a query against all your mail items and not just the currently selected folder, you had to click the fiddly little dropdown arrow to the right of the Instant Search box and select Search All Mail Items. This is fiddly because that dropdown arrow is indeed little, and if you're mouse-challenged like I am it's a pain to to do this. Readers Matt Metz and Floris van der Zwaard independently pointed out to me that there's an easier way to search all mail items, and I appreciate their feedback.