Microsoft Outlook

Weekly Roundup: Outlook Autocomplete, When Excel Won’t Calc, etc.

by The Guru

From this week’s reading: when Outlook’s Autocomplete … won’t, when Excel’s autocalc … doesn’t, cleaning up imported data in Excel, and what to do with 250 Vcards. Click through for links to the full articles

Weekly Roundup: Bates-stamping in Adobe Acrobat, Sync-ing Outlook Redux

by The Guru

From this week’s reading file: Legal Office Guru readers weigh in on Outlook sync, how to organize your email with folders (courtesy of Microsoft’s Outlook blog), and a killer resource you do not want to miss on using Adobe Acrobat X to Bates-stamp your documents. Click the Read More link below for links to the full posts.

Guest Post @ Lawyerist: Organize Matters using Microsoft Outlook Tasks

by The Guru

If you’re looking to use Outlook to help organize your client matters but are clueless about where to start, I’ve got you covered over at Lawyerist. In my guest post called “Organize Matters Using Microsoft Outlook,” I show you (step by step with screen shots and detailed instructions) how to:

* Use Outlook’s Tasks feature to keep track of your to-do’s
* Organize your Tasks by client/matter/file using Categories
* Embed important information in your Tasks, like Word documents or Outlook v-cards with contact info

Click the “Read More” link below for a link to the full tutorial.

Weekly Roundup: Printing sections, moving text blocks, turning off annoying Paste options

by The Guru

For this week’s Roundup: How to print a Word document by section numbers, an easier way to move text around in Microsoft Word, a few Outlook add-ins to consider, and how to turn off that incredibly annoying Paste box that pops up every time you cut and paste text. Click the “Read More” link for more information and for links to the full articles.

Reader Question: Synchronizing Microsoft Outlook inboxes

by The Guru

If you’ve got Microsoft Outlook on both your work and home computers, and you want to receive all your email both places, it’s, um, complicated. After trying one solution (one that works fine for synching smartphone/webmail and Outlook, but not Outlook to Outlook on two computers), I find a whole slew of third-party applications designed just for this purpose.

Click through for the full article.

Don’t miss that important Microsoft Outlook email!

by The Guru

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.

Weekly Roundup: Double-double emails from Gmail

by The Guru

In this week’s Roundup, stop getting double “sent” emails when synchronizing your Gmail account with Outlook with this tip. And if you hate spam, then stop encouraging it by taking these three basic precautions (they really do work). Click through for links to the full articles.

Weekly Roundup: Signature lines, Out of Office, shortcut keys

by The Guru

This week’s Roundup of Microsoft Office tips from other blogs: better signature lines, where the heck Outlook’s Out of Office is hiding, and some shortcut key love from South Africa.

Guest Post @ Lawyerist – Recycle text with Quick Parts and AutoText

by The Guru

Got a lot of texts you use over, and over, and over? Then you’ll be interested in my guest post over at Lawyerist entitled “Recycle Text with Quick Parts and AutoText.” In it, I show you exactly which feature is a better choice (answer: depends on what kind of typist you are, among other things), how to set these features up, and how to gradually build up a library of document building blocks you can use to instantly access those recycleable texts you love.

Click the “Read More” button to for a link to the full article.

Instantly access boilerplate text with Quick Parts

by VideoTutor

Don’t keep copying commonly-used blocks of text from old documents – that cut-and-paste routine will inevitably get you into trouble when you forget to edit out client-specific info. Instead, use Quick Parts to store generic text blocks like Certificates of Service, Signature Blocks, etc. Here’s a video to show you how.