Ah yes, the obligatory link up to the upcoming Brazil 2014 World Cup – bet you didn’t expect to see one here, did you? Isn’t it nice when there’s a surprise at the end of the week? So, with no further ado, here is an Outlook holiday add-in to add the Brazil 2014 games relevantRead More
We’ve all seen it – an email that comes out – perhaps someone erroneously replying to an entire distribution list, sparking hundreds of ‘did you mean to send this to the whole dist list’ replies, quickly followed by the obligatory ‘please stop sending me these mails’, ‘everyone – stop replying’ and of course the ‘IRead More
If your companies IT policy allows it, you may wish to setup your corporate Exchange account on your personal computer / laptop copy of Outlook. You can then take it one step further, if you so wish, and configure Lync on the back of this. Every company has a different setup, so some settingsRead More
If you want to see your mailbox utilization, FileàInfo will show you the size of your mailbox, and your usage When your mailbox starts to get full, you may see a notification at the bottom of your screen on the status bar showing how full you are (a daily occurrence for many, I’m sure!) However,Read More
In this post, I’m going to cover how to create a ‘Job’ in Access, and how to setup a reminder in Outlook, including a ‘Trigger from Outlook’ button. This post assumes you’re largely familiar with importing data into access (I’ll try and do a post on this some time, for those of you lessRead More
If you use Outlook, it’s a good idea to compress your Data files from time to time – especially if you’ve had an email clear-out. Even if you haven’t, it a good practice to follow As you receive more mail, your email Data File grows. Deleting mails itself, doesn’t generally reduce the size of theseRead More
This post will cover a small, but really useful feature in Outlook (2010+, poss 2007). Ever been reading an email, seen someone’s name mentioned, and wondered who they were? Sure, you could type their name into the Address Book, it doesn’t take long. But, there is an even quicker way. Highlight the name. Right Click,Read More
For many years, Office has followed a consistent colour scheme for its applications – Blue for Word, Green for Excel, Red/Pink for Access etc. And Outlook was always a yellow/orange colour. 2010 & 2007 2003 2000 ’95 Well, you get the idea. And the application itself would also follow this same yellow hue.Read More
Outlook is a great, powerful email Client – especially when hooked up to Exchange within a corporation – everything integrates very well. However, it’s easy for Outlook to get very cluttered with various panes for one thing of another – particularly if you’re using a laptop / small screen / low-res screen. This post willRead More
Nice & easy one today, but useful none the less. Screenshots are a useful way of sharing something on our screens, especially with the plethora of different systems that different parts of the business may use that you won’t all have access to. We all know how to take a screen shot – and weRead More
