Outlook 2013 RT Coming to Windows RT Tablets as part of Windows 8.1 Update

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Today at Computex 2013, Tami Reller, CFO and CMO of Microsoft's Windows Division, announced that Outlook 2013 RT will be available on Windows RT tablets as part of the free Windows 8.1 update coming later this year.  This means that if you have a Microsoft Surface or a Windows RT tablet made by one of our hardware partners, or you are planning to buy one, you'll soon have access to the familiar tools in Outlook that help you communicate with others, manage your contacts and appointments, and find information fast. 

We're always listening to our customers and one piece of feedback was that people want the power of Outlook on all their Windows PCs and tablets.  In fact, a Morgan Stanley research study found that 61% of people shopping for tablets consider Microsoft Office to be the single most important software feature.  We're pleased to have Outlook 2013 RT join the other best-in-class Office 2013 RT applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.  And just like those applications, Outlook 2013 RT delivers a great touch experience for people using tablets. 

The new Outlook has so much to offer including a streamlined user experience that reduces clutter and makes your content king.  From cool new features like quickly responding to email with inline reply, to using 'peeks' to view your calendar or contacts without having to manually switch between tabs, Outlook brings great new tools to your fingertips.  And with today's news, Outlook will soon be available across Windows PCs, phones and tablets.  To learn more about what's new in Outlook, check out the Outlook section on Office.com.

 *Morgan Stanley Research, "Tablet Landscape Evolution", May 2012

View the original article here

Review: Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery now handles RAID and Outlook

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

There's nary a media type that some edition of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery 6 won't handle: hard drives, memory cards, optical discs...all covered.

One of Stellar Phoenix's best features is its colorful, mostly easy-to-use interface.

The program comes in three flavors: the $49 Home, which recovers from all the above media except optical; the $99 Professional, which does optical as well and adds support for creating images and recovering from Outlook .pst files; and the $299 Technician edition, which also handles RAID 0, 5, and 6 volumes and remote network recovery.

While Stellar Phoenix WDR 6's interface is colorful, and largely easy to use, I would like to see larger lists for the drives. I have quite a few partitions on my system when I'm testing, and being able to see only six at a time (and only one when searching for lost volumes) is confusing and forces a lot of unnecessary scrolling.

Stellar Phoenix WDR 6 did well with the two hard drives I tested it with, as well as an SDHC card with photos. It recovered the .mov portions of movies on the card as well, but not the forked headers that Canon uses. It didn't show these headers either, which need to be recovered and pasted into the movie files for them to work properly. Also, Stellar only came up with one recoverable file on my test flash drive, where R-Studio came up with hundreds.

The interface doesn't allow enough room for the user to see all the drives in a system with a lot of partitions.

By and large, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery 6 works quite well, and as with all recovery programs, you can download the demo and see if it works for your particular recovery problem (you can see, but not recover, data). Alas, the advanced features will cost you, and it was less than stellar at recovering data from my test flash drive. R-Studio Data Recovery ($80), which has been my workhorse for years, and IsoBuster ($40) are worthy competitors.

Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can compare the three editions of the software and download the latest version of your choosing.

Jon L. Jacobi has worked with computers since you flipped switches and punched cards to program them. He studied music at Juilliard, and now he power-mods his car for kicks.
More by Jon L. Jacobi

View the original article here

Skype for Windows 6.1 with Outlook integration makes closed even easier

Already in July at the Office customer preview event, we have said that Skype integration with Outlook as part of the new Office would come. As of today, we are happy to share that it has arrived with the release of Skype 6.1 for Windows desktop.

Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 users see Skype online status both personal message in the Outlook contact card. From the map, you can a Skype call or directly from the map IN the session start without leaving Outlook. We think Outlook users are to be able to love, to quickly and easily your Skype contacts directly from within Outlook to connect and encourage you to download the update today and try it. Go learn more about the rest of the today's version, the Skype big blog.

View the original article here

Your top 10 favorite Outlook posts of 2012

AppId is over the quota

E-Mail geht es um Kommunikation mit Menschen--ob Sie ein Foto-sharing sind oder planen, eine Tagung oder ein Anruf. Einige der letztjährigen beliebtesten Beiträge über die neuen Perspektiven zeigen Ihnen, wie es entwickelt ist, um Menschen an erster Stelle.

Wenn zu viele Leute über zu viele Dinge mit Ihnen kommunizieren, machen Ihren Posteingang Sie schnell überfordert fühlen. Die meisten der beliebten Beiträge über die aktuelle Version bieten Ihnen einfache Wege, die Outlook Ihnen hilft auf Ihre Nachrichten zu bleiben.

Wenn Sie das neue Office noch nicht ausprobiert, der Abnehmer Vorschau Website.

Einführung Outlook.com - moderne E-Mail für die nächsten Milliarden Postfächer
Was ist Outlook.com? Ein Upgrade auf Hotmail? Auf jeden Fall. Aber von Grund auf neu. Es ist eine völlig neue Cloud-basierte, persönlichen e-Mail Service umfasst Skype, Integration mit sozialen Netzwerken und mehr. Dieser Beitrag war seine Hello World.

Die neue IMAP in Outlook 2013
IMAP ist ein Industriestandard, der regelt, wie e-Mail-Programme Nachrichten abrufen. In den neuen Outlook ist es erheblich verbessert.

Einführung in Outlook-2013
Dieser Beitrag packt die neue Aussichten.

Das neue Drehkreuz Menschen in Outlook 2013
Wenn Sie wie viele Menschen sind, speichern Sie ganz über dem Platz - Kontaktinformationen in verschiedenen e-Mail-Programmen und soziale Netzwerke, die auf verschiedenen Geräten installiert werden. In den neuen Outlook können Sie Kontakte aus all diesen Orten an einer Stelle anzeigen.

Eine moderne, People-First-Posteingang in Outlook 2013
In den neuen Outlook haben wir das Design der Nachrichtenliste zu reflektieren, wie die meisten Menschen, die es verwenden, um die Such- und Sortierfunktionen durch e-Mails überholt. Unsere Forschung zeigte, dass Menschen dazu neigen, auf die Namen zu suchen, damit wir die Liste entwickelt, damit Sie sie zuerst sehen. Stecken e-Mail in Ihrem Postausgang? Try this.
Jemals daran gedacht, dass Sie eine e-Mail, die es nie, aus Ihrem Postausgang geschafft gesendet haben? Oder können eine löschen, da Outlook immer wieder versucht, es zu schicken? Lesen Sie diesen Beitrag nach Lösungen.

5 Tipps zur Verwendung von Bcc in Outlook E-Mail
Wie Sie hinzufügen (entfernen oder) eine BCC-Feld, so dass Sie die Namen einiger Ihrer Empfänger verbergen können? Und wie sehen Sie, wer diese Menschen sind nach dem Sie senden? Lesen Sie weiter.

E-Mail an eine Gruppe senden möchten?
Sicher, es ist einfach bei der Arbeit eine Nachricht an eine vordefinierte Gruppe von Personen senden. Aber wie machen Sie das zu Hause Wenn Sie nicht mit Microsoft Exchange Server verbunden sind?

Webinar: Unclutter Posteingang von Outlook
Sehen Sie in diesem Webinar erfahren Sie, wie Sie gesund bleiben. Es ist Teil der Philosophie und Teil-Tipps und tricks für das Verwalten von Nachrichten.

Filterung von e-Mails in Outlook
Ein e-Mail-Filter können Sie nur die Nachrichten sehen, die bestimmte Kriterien erfüllen. Sie könnten beispielsweise einen Filter auswählen, der Sie nur diejenigen mit Anhängen anzeigen können. Outlook bietet viele Möglichkeiten, zu filtern, dass Sie möglicherweise nicht kennen.

View the original article here

Act on your mail faster with Outlook 2013

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

In my last post, I talked about the visual changes we made to the message list in Outlook 2013. Today I want to follow up with a discussion of the changes we made that make it faster than ever to act on your mail in Outlook.

I mentioned in my previous post that while designing the new message list, we focused on the way most people read their email. Reading is only half the story – acting on messages you receive is equally important. We analyzed data to learn as much as we could about what people do after reading emails in their message list.

Delete is far and away the most common action people take on their mail. In fact, it’s so common it accounts for around three quarters of all actions! The most common way to delete has been with a keyboard, but mouse users head straight for the ribbon. In the new Outlook, we’ve put a delete button right on your message list. As you hover over each message, a single click is all it takes to delete, and you don’t even need to select the message first.

For as long as anyone can remember, the Outlook message list has been graced by flag and categorize buttons. While flagging is still a very mainstream scenario, we found that categories were simply adding clutter for most users. Only a tiny fraction ever clicked the button to categorize their mail. Instead of wasting this space, we removed the categorize quick click button, although you can still categorize mail using the ribbon, right click menu, or using a Quick Step. And don’t worry, categories you apply will still appear in the list.

I touched on the importance of unread status in our visual update post. User feedback has told us that many people rely on the unread status of their mails to make sure they don’t miss important information or action items. By making it a single click to mark mails read or unread, you can ensure that the right things remain highlighted in your inbox. Try it out, and you might just find this has been the one thing your mail has been missing!

You may notice that on a touchscreen device, like those being launched with Windows 8, you won’t see the delete, flag, or unread buttons on the message list. There are major differences in the way people interact with a mouse versus their fingers, and we quickly learned that what works for one doesn’t necessarily work for the other. Check out our previous post for some of the optimizations for Outlook on touch devices.

I also wanted to mention that we focused on the multi-line view for this message list redesign, as that’s what the majority of our users see. If you work with the reading pane off or on the bottom, you might have a somewhat different message list than what I’ve discussed here. We’ve made some improvements there as well, but you might notice some differences from what’s described above.

--Josh Meisels, Outlook Program Manager

View the original article here

A Modern, People-First Inbox in Outlook 2013

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

You've probably realized that the person at the desk next to you uses Outlook differently than you. Some folks view Outlook as a task system, others use it to collaborate on documents with public folders, and still others use it to manage other peoples' calendars. But almost every Outlook user reads their email in Outlook. And to do it, they use the message list.

Sure, we aren't getting any points for creativity on that name, but the message list, put simply, is the list of emails you read in Outlook. Like other parts of Outlook, it's highly customizable, and yours might look different than your manager's. In Outlook 2013, we overhauled the message list, focusing on the way most people use it.

You may have noticed that the new Outlook looks a little different. The new message list is no exception. The view has been cleaned up to focus on your emails, and keep your computer looking modern and fresh. Outlook and the Outlook Web App share the same design principles, and you'll notice the message lists look very similar between the two products.

In addition to making it look cleaner, the message list redesign focused on a functionally better message list. We've followed a Microsoft-wide principle of putting people first by making the names stand out in the message list. Our search data indicates that looking for a sender is one of the most important ways people find mail. So whether you choose the classic Date view, or the trendy Conversations view, you'll see names shown in a larger font on the top line of each message. This makes it easier to scan and find "that message from Jenny."

We also tweaked the spacing between messages to ensure optimal reading speed. You won't see quite as many messages on the screen at one time, but we tested the best combinations for reading and finding messages.

We've heard from customers that the unread status is extremely important when you're reading emails, so we made sure the unread mails in your inbox stand out by using Outlook's new blue color for both text, and a visual bar to the left of each message. The bar makes it easier than ever to focus on the unread messages.

Finally, you no longer have to open each message to find the one you're looking for. We added a one-line preview to each message in the message list. 

The few words that a preview can provide makes a huge difference in being able to locate the right message, and scan your new emails to make sure you feel up-to-date on what's going on. You can customize or remove the preview by going to View | Message Preview in the ribbon.

I'm excited for you to try out the new message list, and feel free to provide your honest feedback in the comments below.

--Josh Meisels, Outlook Program Manager

View the original article here

Outlook 2013 deprecated features and components

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

As much as we love adding new features to Outlook, for the maintainability of our product we sometimes need to remove those that are out of date and aren't utilized by a large number of users.  This allows us to focus on improving the Outlook features that most of you, our customers, rely on.

The following are some features that we've removed from Outlook 2013, and we want to make sure you are aware so there aren't any surprises when you go to use or deploy the new version. 

In Outlook 2013, we will no longer support "Classic Offline" Mode for Microsoft Exchange accounts.  Users in this configuration will be upgraded to Cached Mode when they install Outlook 2013.  For the vast majority of users this will mean no change to your Outlook experience.  Details of Cached Mode in Outlook can be found here:  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj683103.aspx

Exchange accounts will no longer be able to have their delivery location be a PST file (rather an .OST).  Users in this configuration will be upgraded to Cached Mode (with an .OST file) when they install 2013. See the previous article for details about cached mode. 

Users will no longer be able to publish calendars publicly to Office.com using Outlook 2013, and the Office.com calendar sharing service will be shutting down for older versions of Outlook as well.  We will publish a follow-up blog post detailing the timeline for the service changes, as well as ways to get the same feature set using Exchange or Outlook.com.

VPN and dialup preferences are no longer independently configurable in Outlook.  These options were previously located on the Send/Receive tab in Outlook 2010.  As a workaround, affected users are encouraged to set these options system wide in the Windows Control Panel. 

Outlook 2013 will no longer surface search results for mail and calendar items in Windows Explorer (or via the start menu).  Users can still utilize all of Outlook's search functionality from within the app itself. 

The Journal as a top-level module no longer exists in Outlook 2013.  Journal entries can still be accessed via the Journal folder in the Folder List module.   Also, the ability to 'auto-journal' your Outlook actions is gone in 2013. 

Outlook has traditionally supported importing and exporting data to and from many different file formats.  Many of the formats Outlook has supported are outdated and are no longer in mainstream use.  Outlook will continue to support comma-separated-value (.csv) files as well as .PST files, but other file formats are no longer supported.

 This list includes:

-          ACT! Contact manager files

-          Word 97-2003 (.doc)

-          Excel 97-2003 (.xls)

-          Outlook Express archives

The Contact Activities Tab is removed from Outlook 2013.  This previously provided a way to "link" contacts with other Outlook items, and have them all roll-up in the Activities Tab.  The Outlook Social Connector (introduced in Outlook 2010) replaces much of this functionality in a faster, more user friendly fashion. 

--Justin Mahood, Outlook Program Manager

View the original article here

Outlook Weather Bar: Is it raining cats and dogs?

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

If you’re running Outlook Customer Preview, you may have noticed the Outlook Weather Bar that sits on the top of your calendar.

We’ve heard from you that it’s helpful to see the weather daily as you plan your day, so we’ve added it to the calendar. Below are some of the ways you can use the Weather Bar.

Having lived in Boston previously, I know that sunny skies outside the window can be misleading at times. To help you with more than just the high and low temperature of the day, when you hover over the different days in the weather bar, you’ll get a weather peek. There, you can see more details, such as the wind speed. So even though it’s warm outside in Boston right now, I may bring a cardigan for the gusty 17mph wind.  

We also know that some of you travel between multiple locations for your job or travel for the holidays. With the Outlook Weather Bar, you can add up to five locations.

After you’ve clicked the dropdown arrow, click Add Location and search for your location to add it to the list. My grandparents live in Taipei, and I often chat with them, so I’ve added Taipei here as one of the locations on the Weather Bar. 

You can then quickly switch between different locations and see their weather. 

Try out the Weather Bar and let me know what you think in the comments below!

--Jenny Liu, Outlook Program Manager

View the original article here

Take control of your Outlook 2013 add-ins

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Outlook add-ins provide lots of interesting features that customize Outlook for a particular scenario. Even if you don't purchase third-party add-ins, you might already be using the add-ins that are installed with Outlook such as the Outlook Social Connector 2013. While we make every attempt to ensure that add-ins integrate seamlessly with Outlook, some add-ins behave in a way that detracts from your Outlook experience.

We've listened to customer suggestions and added a new feature in Outlook 2013 to help you manage add-ins that cause performance or crashing problems. When an add-in takes too long to boot, Outlook will disable the add-in automatically*. When this happens, Outlook provides a warning in the notification bar as shown below and you can take appropriate action.

When you see the add-in problem alert, click the View Disabled Add-ins button on the notification bar to display the Disabled Add-ins dialog.

The Disabled Add-ins dialog lets you control add-ins that have caused a problem for Outlook. When you display this dialog, you'll notice that Outlook tells you how much time the add-in required. In the example below, the SaveMessageAsPDF add-in caused Outlook to start slowly and added over 16 seconds to Outlook startup time. If you click the Always enable this add-in button, Outlook will always allow the add-in to run no matter how much time it requires during Outlook startup.

What happens if you change your mind? Maybe you don't want to wait 16 seconds while Outlook starts up. Don't worry, you're still in control of your add-ins. To display the Disabled Add-ins dialog again, you click File | Manage Add-ins in the Backstage view:

Just click the Disable this add-in button to ensure that the add-in will be disabled and you'll get 16 seconds back every time you launch Outlook! If you know that you need your special add-in again, you can always go back to this dialog and re-enable the add-in.

We want to protect you from add-ins that slow down your Outlook experience and to ensure that you are always in control of your add-ins. In some cases, you will find it acceptable that an add-in slows down Outlook a bit but you are willing to make a tradeoff for a must-have feature provided by the add-in. On the other hand, you might not want to sacrifice Outlook performance for an add-in that was pre-installed on your computer. You have the final say, and enjoy having greater control of the add-ins that run in Outlook.

--Randy Byrne, Outlook Program Manager

* For those of you nitty-gritty technical types, here's how the add-in disabling feature works. Outlook monitors the time that an add-in contributes to Outlook startup or shutdown. Outlook also monitors the time that an add-in requires when a folder is switched or an item is opened. When the median time calculated over five instances of a performance measurement exceeds one second, Outlook will disable the add-in automatically.

View the original article here

Join us Tuesday for our Webinar previewing Outlook 2013

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

In this week's webinar, we'll crack open Outlook 2013, something you can also do right now during our free Customer Preview. We'll show you some new features and answer your questions about any version of Outlook. We start our Office 15-Minute Webinar at 9:15 am Pacific Time, with a Q&A to follow. Click the link below or go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series.

https://join.microsoft.com/meet/dougt/F274WBQZ

There are two ways you can join: Use the free Lync Attendee download to get full video and sound, or use your web browser, and call in to get audio: 888.320.3585, Conference ID: 84172528.

A video of the webinar will be posted shortly after the webinar.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar:

New ways to organize and control your schedule and email Take a peak at a calendar or appointments Connect to with people quickly The weather in Outlook? Yes!

References for this webinar:

--Doug Thomas

View the original article here

The new People Hub in Outlook 2013

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Ever wonder what's going on with the person you haven't spoken to in a while?  Want to find out what's new with someone before sending them an email or giving them a call? If you do, Office 2013 is the product for you.

Office 2013 brings all the people you care about in one place. You can view contacts from multiple email accounts, and updates from social networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Office 2013 makes it easy for you to get things done with people.

If you are like most people, you have contact information spread across multiple different sources. For example, Wendy is a Facebook friend, a LinkedIn connection, and I have her personal mobile number saved in Outlook. In Office, I can see all of Wendy's data from these various sources in one place:

 Office 2013 Contact Card

To see a person's Facebook and LinkedIn data inside Office, you just have to connect Outlook to these social networks. You can do so very easily by going to File > Account Settings > Social Network Accounts. Type in your username and password for Facebook and LinkedIn, and Office will present contact data, pictures, recent activity, birthday etc. from these sources.

Office 2013 respects user's privacy settings on Facebook and LinkedIn. Office will only display your data from Facebook and LinkedIn if your privacy settings allow other's to view these data.

Here's what Wendy's "What's New" tab looks like:

"What's New" tab in Office 2013 Contact Card

This Contact Card can be shown by hovering, clicking, or double clicking, on a person anywhere in Office, including, but not limited to comments in Word, contacts in Lync, and email recipients in Outlook etc.

The People view, seen by clicking the People button in Outlook 2013 has also been refreshed. This clean, new UI makes it easy to quickly view a person's contact information (from all the different sources) in the Preview Pane. You can also easily communicate with your contacts by just one click, right from the Preview Pane.

Outlook 2013 People Hub

You can pin someone to your Favorites for easy access. That means you can pin people like commenters on your Word documents, Lync buddies, or PowerPoint authors to your Favorites. Later on, all you will need to do to see their contact information is hover on People as shown below:

 Outlook 2013 Favorites

The unified People Search is accessible from the People Peek (right above the Favorites section), and from the ribbon. It helps you find people from across all of your contacts; for example, your company's address book, people you frequently email, and supporting IM providers like Lync.

If you actively manage your contacts to keep their information up to date, you will love the new inline edit feature in Outlook 2013. Just hit the Edit button on the Contact Card, and start typing. For example, this powerful feature makes it easier than ever to add a field such as a second home phone number.

Office 2013 Contact Card edit experience

Try out these new, cool people centric features in Outlook today. Let us know in the comments section what you think!

--Rubaiyat Khan, Program Manager, Office People-Centric Experiences

View the original article here

Quick creation of a rule in Outlook 2010

(Note: this post was published for the first time in July 2010, is very popular.) (Of course, many of you want to help help your overflowing mailboxes manage and apply to the rules feature in Outlook to you.)

If you are a heavy e-Mail user like me, chances are good that you subscribe to a lot of mailing lists. Unwanted spam is an issue that we in our mailboxes to fight, but perhaps more confusing is that the amount of e-Mail messages, we call "Graymail."

Graymail consists of these newsletters, coupons and alerts, which can be sometimes useful, but are not the things you above to be displayed on the in your Inbox. For example, some contains the Graymail which I receive regular notifications from Netflix, sales flyer from a local outdoor retailers and e-Mail from a discussion group of food and wine.

I like what film see Netflix has supplied to me, or what to sell my favorite stores, but since this news is not time-critical and I don't need to answer, I will appear in your Inbox. I would move the messages to a folder rather, where I they can browse later.

Outlook 2010 makes it easy for me to sort e-Mails, the attention of Graymail. For example, if I have a shipping notification received from Netflix, I went home tab on the Ribbon and then clicked rules. Then I clicked always move messages from: Netflix. The station was proposed, based on the sender and recipient (if it has been sent to people other than you).

For a destination folder I my notifications and alerts folder chosen that would go all my current and future messages from Netflix to this folder. I did the same thing for other companies, which I regularly news about sales and events which interest me.

Now, I will never see registration an another Netflix in my Inbox, but they are always in my folder notifications and alerts that I read every day or two.

When I myself for a new mailing list sign up, such as the food and the wine list, the I me them "always move" command to quickly create a rule, I do specifically for the E-mail messages to that mailing list in a new folder moves.

I hope that this simple way to create rules will help you to control your Inbox by Graymail messages in their own folders, move and keep only the most important messages in your Inbox.

Josh Meisel

Outlook program manager

View the original article here

Send text messages with Office 365 and Outlook Web App (Video)

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Earlier this year, the CTIA released a report stating that in 2011, 2.3 trillion text messages were sent in the United States alone. While many people might classify texting as a personal activity not tied to work, it's also useful for business communications.

Outlook Web App, part of Office 365, provides all-in-one messaging with email, voicemail, and text messages. Being able to manage these different types of communication from a single inbox provides more flexibility to work the way you want to, and that you'll have access to all of your important communication from wherever you are.

In the video below, Microsoft MVP Brett Hill explains how to use Outlook Web App for text messaging. This post originally appeared on the Office 365 Grid blog where Brett stated: "I discovered this feature while looking for a way to have Office 365 send a text message instead of an email alert. Very easy to setup and not a feature you hear much about, but very useful when you want to be alerted about an event that needs your immediate attention."

How do you use text messaging for work? Share your story below.

Additional Resources:

______________________________________________________________________________

--Stephen Bury

See how customers are using Office 365 here.

Interested in trying or buying? Review plans or start a free trial now.

Just want to know more? Visit Office365.com.

View the original article here

Filtering emails in Outlook

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Outlook offers several ways to filter emails. A filter lets you see only those messages that meet certain criteria. For example, you could pick a filter that lets you see only emails that have attachments or are unread.  Here's how it works.

On the Home tab, in the Find group, click Filter Email.

Click any of the filters to see only those emails that fit that category. For example, select This Week  to show time ranges and click Last Week to see only emails you received last week. 

To remove the filter, click Close Search, and your email view returns to normal--you can see all the emails in your inbox. 

View the original article here

Webinar: Unclutter your Outlook inbox

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

Join Tuesday's free Office 15-Minute Webinar to learn about uncluttering your inbox with Outlook. You can join the webinar live with the link below at 9:15 am PDT or go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information on our webinars.

Join online meeting

https://join.microsoft.com/meet/dougt/F274WBQZ

What you will learn at the webinar

How to search in Outlook Clean-up with Conversation ViewDelete: a personal philosophyWhat are Quick Steps

We will add the video to this blog post after the webinar.

References for this webinar:

Clean up, Ignore buttons (Outlook 2010) Best Practices (looking at all of Outlook, no just clean-up) 

--Doug Thomas

View the original article here

Calendar view in Outlook 2010

(We published first this post been in March 2010 with Outlook 2010 recently released.) (Many, many people find it a very useful feature to publish we are there again nor know more of you to leave.)

Microsoft Outlook 2010 has a new feature called calendar view, which makes it easier to schedule time with your employees. Calendar view is a new horizontal layout for the Outlook calendar that shows many calendars at the same time.

Click on Show Schedule , calendar view in Outlook 2010, Calendar, try. Calendar view is also displayed when at least five calendars are selected. (This number is customizable).

Team calendar

Calendar view is closely with a team of employees who share their calendar useful, if you are working. If you have a Microsoft Exchange Server account, displays the calendar group team calendar in the calendar navigation pane. The group team calendar includes calendar for your manager, direct superiors and colleagues such as from information in the Windows Active Directory.

If your team calendar to view, select Team calendar check box. All the calendars in the group are displayed in the calendar view.

Planning a meeting

To plan a meeting in timeline view, follow these steps:

1. In the Calendarin the navigation pane, select the people you want to invite to the meeting. Select the Conference room if you also space to include a conference resource.

2. If you want to schedule a conference room resource, choose a conference room.

3. The top row shows the calendar view a summary of free/busy availability for all the people who you have chosen. This summary, you can determine the best time for the meeting.

4) After you have selected a window, click the Start in the group new to new reviewtab. The participants and the time are automatically entered. Enter a subject, and then click send.

I hope that you will find useful the calendar view. I am looking forward to your comments!

Yasuhiko Mori
Outlook program manager, Tokyo, Japan

View the original article here

5 Tips on using Bcc in Outlook Email

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota

It's kind of funny that a software application would use abbreviations that refer to pre-software days.  Remember carbon copies? Cc means carbon copy and Bcc means blind carbon copy. For emailing, you use Cc when you want to copy others publicly, and Bcc when you want to do it privately. Any recipients on the Bcc line of an email are not visible to others on the email. These five tips get beginners started and provide info for those who already know how to use Bcc.

Probably one of the biggest hurtles that customers face is figuring out how to add or remove Bcc to or from an email.

To do that, open your email message, and on the Options tab in the Show Fields group, click Bcc.

 

Bcc appears in the Send area of your email, below Cc. (Cc appears in the Send area by default.)

 

To remove Bcc from your email, again go to the Options tab in the Show Fields group, and click Bcc. Once you add (or remove) Bcc, it stays that way for all email messages.

While others can't see who's on the Bcc line of the email you send, you might want to remind yourself who you included.

To do that, go to your Sent Items folder and open the message with Bcc recipients. (By default, all sent messages are stored in the Outlook Sent Items folder.)  

 

All recipients appear in the header section of your message.

Most people know when to use the Cc line--you put people there who you need to keep in the loop even though they're not the primary people you're sending to. When you want to keep recipients hidden from people on the To: line, then you add them to the Bcc line. Tip #3 and 4# give you two reasons you might want to do that.  

If your name is on the Bcc list, you won't receive any emails if someone on the To or Cc line replies to the original email. This is especially handy when there are lots of people on the To or Cc line who Reply All during a long email conversation. Your inbox would be inundated with emails when all you needed to care about was the first one.

Take note! If you're on the Bcc line of an email and you reply to the email, your secret's out-everyone on the To and Cc lines knows you were Bcc'd. Why does this matter?  Let's say you send an email to a colleague gently reminding him or her about a deliverable that's long overdue. You want to let your manager in on this, so you include her on the Bcc line. But if she replies to the email-uh-oh! Your colleague knows you've "informed" your manager. Might make for some awkwardness in the workplace for a while!

*****

More info on Bcc:

Say it, don't spray it  

View Bcc recipients of an email message

Prevent recipient names from showing by using Bcc

Use Bcc to keep names off the To line

View the original article here