Reader Question Follow-Up: Synchronizing Outlook with SynchPst

November 3, 2011
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You may remember the Reader Question from a few weeks back involving synchronizing Microsoft Outlook information between two computers. I posted a list of possible solutions courtesy of Outlookipedia (and the comments to the post also contained some great suggestions, including using IMAP rather than POP3 email).

I also continued to follow up with this reader behind the scenes to see if I could find a better solution for this dilemma. I’m happy to report we did.

Click the “Read More” link for this reader’s review of SynchPst.

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Printing Envelopes and Labels, Part 1: Envelopes

November 2, 2011
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A WordPerfect Lover asked me to go “back to the basics” with some tutorials on essential Word functions, so I’m starting that effort with a tutorial on how to print envelopes in various versions of Microsoft Word from 2002 through 2010. Click the “read more” link for a complete illustrated tutorial.

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Weekly Roundup: More Word, Excel and Outlook Tips

October 31, 2011
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This week’s Roundup of the reading file is an embarrassment of riches from the usual suspects: TechRepublic’s take on the most important Microsoft Word skills, how to put time values into Microsoft Excel, Vivian Manning tackles Microsoft Word’s mail merge feature, making it easier to switch between Word documents, and how to share your Microsoft Outlook calendar. Click the “Read More” link for the details.

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[Insanely] Popular Post: Printing Those Monster Excel Sheets

October 27, 2011
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The #1 most popular tutorial on this blog now features a video demonstration on how to format a large Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for printing plus a downloadable video transcript. Click the Read More link to view this insanely popular post.

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Guest Post @ Attorney at Work: Four Microsoft Office Settings to Tweak

October 26, 2011
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Here are four quick tips across a range of Microsoft Office applications: modifying the Status Bar, ensuring Excel sheets auto-calculate, improving full justification of text in Word, and starting Outlook in the folder of your choice. Click through for a link to the full article.

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Guest Post @ Lawyerist: 3 Outlook Quick Tricks

October 25, 2011
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Over on Lawyerist, I’ve been writing a lot lately about Microsoft Outlook — how to use tasks and categories and how assign tasks to other people, for example. This week, I’ve gathered up three features many Outlook users don’t even know about.

For instance, did you know that Outlook can automatically calculate “30 days from now” or “one week from now” when setting a due date? Or that you can redirect e-mail replies to another user? Or that Outlook can keep all of the e-mails in a particular conversation together for easy reference?

If these tricks are news to you, click through for a link to the full illustrated tutorial.

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Weekly Roundup: More shortcut keys, faster Word page setup, Quick Print

October 24, 2011
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From this week’s Roundup of the reading file: some more shortcut keys you need to know about (particularly if you’re an avid Outlook user), a faster way to reach the Page Setup dialog in Microsoft Word, and how to add a Quick Print button to enable one-click printing from Word.

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Guest Post @ Lawyerist: Assigning Outlook Tasks

October 21, 2011
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If you’ve only used Microsoft Outlook’s Tasks to track your own to do list, you’re missing half the power of that feature. Many Outlook users don’t realize that Tasks can be assigned to other users, and you can even track an assigned Task’s progress on your own to-do list. My latest guest post on Lawyerist is a complete illustrated tutorial on how to use this feature. Click through for a link to the full article.

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Reader Question: Calculate difference between two dates in Microsoft Excel

October 19, 2011
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A reader asked me recently how to calculate the difference between two dates. My response? Well, it depends. Fortunately, there are only two scenarios to pick between, and I’ve illustrated them both in this post. Click through for complete tutorial on how to calculate in Microsoft Excel using dates.

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The case of the shrunken comment balloon

October 18, 2011
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Ever had one of your comment balloons in Microsoft Word suddenly shrink without warning and become unreadable? Admittedly, it’s a pretty obscure problem, but if it ever happens to you, you want to make note of this fix.

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Weekly Roundup: Outlook Quick Steps and Best Practices, disappearing Word headers

October 17, 2011
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In this week’s Roundup: doing the Quick Step in Microsoft Outlook, what to do when your Microsoft Word headers suddenly disappear, and Microsoft’s Outlook blog finishes up its “Best Practices” series.

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Weekly Roundup: A neat Excel trick, customize Show/Hide, discounted Outlook tools

October 10, 2011
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For this week’s Roundup: how to put zeroes in otherwise blank cells in Excel (and not the long way, either), how to pick and choose which formatting marks Word shows you with Show/Hide, and a heads-up on some hefty discounts on several Outlook plug-ins.

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Guest Post @ Lawyerist: Using Tasks + Categories Views

September 30, 2011
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Want to use Microsoft Outlook to organize your cases? Say, keep track of your overflowing to-do list, group all of your Smith v. Jones entries together, get an at-a-glance look at what’s on your plate this week? Click through for a link to my latest guest post on Lawyerist, “Using Outlook Tasks + Categories Views,” for some great strategies on using Outlook to stay on top of things.

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