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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In this week’s Roundup of the reading file: a quick (and really fun and challenging) online typing test (how long has it been since you took a typing test?), how to configure Outlook 2010 for your Gmail account, some inexpensive speech-to-text alternatives for those who want to dictate to their PC, yet another reason to use Microsoft Word’s Style feature, and what those little black boxes next to your Microsoft Word text mean, particularly for your document’s pagination. Click through for links to all five articles.
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In my latest guest post over at Lawyerist, I link you to a recent IBM study that shows just how inefficient sorting e-mails is, and then I show you a better way: using Microsoft Outlook’s Search Folders feature. Click the Read More link for a link to the full article.
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From this week’s reading file: Vivian Manning shows us what that little blue line underneath some of your text in Microsoft Word really means, how to re-start Microsoft Outlook in troubleshooting mode, and how to paste text in Microsoft Word to ensure the least amount of post-paste cleanup. Click the “Read More” link for more info.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
Read MoreWant 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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