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A blog post can take on a life of its own. Something we wrote yesterday can disappear as the blog rolls on. Something written a few years ago can live on as search engines find it and customers click on it. Here are the 10 most popular posts at the Office Blog in 2011 and the reason you might want to catch-up with them.
1. Maybe I shouldn't have sent that email
You forgot to put some important information in an email you just sent to a gigantic list. You accidently sent that obscenity-laden email to your boss instead of your ex. No matter the reason, recalling an email in Outlook can be helpful. And perhaps save your job. Quick! Recall that email message as published April 5, 2011.
2. You want your Excel Chart to show lots of data
Data is key and visual data-telling a story without a lot of numbers-is desirable in this information-overloaded age. Here's how to stick two sets of data in an Excel chart without cluttering up the chart. Combining Chart Types, Adding a Second Axis was published on August 24, 2007.
3. Storing and sending things in the cloud got easier
An update last November to Office Web Apps and SkyDrive-Microsoft's free cloud service--made it much easier to share and organize your documents. And you get 25GB of free storage on SkyDrive that you can access from any virtually computer (or smartphone) connected to the Internet. New SkyDrive updates make sharing Office docs easier was published November 29, 2011, and includes a video that helps explain it all.
4. You want to view a PowerPoint presentation-and don't have PowerPoint
Microsoft Office creates free viewers that let you view Excel, Word, or PowerPoint documents no matter what type of computer you're using. Since we first published this blog post, we created another, easy way to send a PowerPoint presentation to folks who don't have PowerPoint--it's called the PowerPoint Office Web Apps. However, the viewer still works fine. PowerPoint 2010 Viewer - Available for Download was published May 13, 2010.
5. Why not keep up on social media while working in Outlook?
As you read an email, the Outlook Social Connector displays other emails, meetings, and documents from the person who sent it to you, and if you want, their social media posts from Facebook, LinkedIn and more. How to install the Outlook Social Connector (Office Casual video) was posted August 24, 2010.
6. You need help with mail merge
Mail merge remains one of the most popular topics on our blog. This post shows you in-depth how to do mail merge in Outlook 2007. Since we published this, we have created a step-by-step guide for Outlook 2007 and 2010, which we highly recommend. Read about that guide, Mail Merge Made Easy, or view this original post, Mail Merge: How to send a personalized e-mail to many people at once which was published September 22, 2008.
7. Dang: where's is that email?
When you want to find something on the internet, you turn to a search engine. But when you want to find an email from last week, I bet you endlessly scroll through messages. These powerful tools in Outlook let you quickly find any message. Can't find that email message? These three tips can help was published November 12, 2010.
8. You want to get head and shoulders above Headers and Footers
The skinny on how to add headers, footers, and page numbers to Word documents. Headers and footers and page numbers, oh my was published July 19, 2010.
9. You want a better way to view Excel numbers
Conditional formatting make the important numbers stand out so things like top trends or outliers can be found in a glance. This blog post explains the details about the new Excel 2010 additions to this tool. More Conditional Formatting Features in Excel 2010 was published August 9, 2009.
10. You have more than one Exchange account, and want to see them all in Outlook
This post shows you how to add and link multiple inboxes in Outlook when they're all running on a Microsoft Exchange server. Multiple Exchange Accounts in Outlook 2010 was published August 25, 2009. (And, BTW, you can also add Internet email accounts such as Hotmail, Gmail, and others via the Outlook Hotmail Connector.)
Do you have a favorite blog post? Let us know.
--Doug Thomas
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