Outlook 2002

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If your Microsoft Outlook .pst file (the one that holds all your messages, calendar items, contacts, and tasks) is getting a little heavy, here are five ways you can trim it down.

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Post image for Weekly Roundup: Adobe’s way to archive old emails and good news for Ribbon-haters

For our Thanksgiving week Roundup: Adobe shows us how to print both entire batches and selected pdfs from an email portfolio (a great way to archive email for future reference), and if you hate the Microsoft Office Ribbon, you can get rid of it without downgrading your Office Suite.

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If you want special alerts for important emails – messages from a particular sender or with certain text in the subject, for example – then you’ll want to know how to set up Rules in Outlook. The Rules feature can examine your incoming mail and alert you to anything that you’ve told it is important, either with a special sound, a flag, or a pop-up box. Click through for the full illustrated tutorial.

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If you ever want to make SURE a potentially dangerous email is deleted from your Microsoft Outlook Inbox, here’s a quick keyboard trick that enables you to skip the Deleted Items folder and permanently delete an email.

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Synchronizing Microsoft Outlook with Google Calendar

by The Guru on December 14, 2010

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Having problems synchronizing Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook? Here are some troubleshooting pointers.

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Hyperlinking a networked file in an Outlook email

by The Guru on November 6, 2010

An example of a hyperlink

If you ever need to know how to send a coworker a link to a networked file in Outlook, @VivianManning has the 411. Here’s some info on her technique.

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How Out of Office can keep the judge off your case

by The Guru on September 9, 2010

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In the Age of the Crackberry, when everybody expects you to be always available, it’s important to let people known when you aren’t. Here’s how to use Microsoft Outlook’s Out of Office feature.

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Microsoft Outlook Inbox management is a lot easier when you use Rules & Alerts to automate common tasks. Here’s a video tutorial showing you how.

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How to redirect a reply in Outlook

by The Guru on July 11, 2010

If you send an email to a large list, the last thing you want is someone hitting “Reply to All.” Prevent a disaster with these two tricks in Microsoft Outlook.

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