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Outlook Tricks & Tips

Need a quick map and directions to one of your contacts? Open the contact and click on the diamond shaped street sign (or click on Actions then Display Map of Address). Your web browser will open display a local map. Type in your own address and get directions to their address.

Now, do you want to remember that person's anniversary or birthday? Again, open the contact, click on the Details tab at the top and enter the appropriate dates. The magic is that those dates will now show up on your calendar year after year!

Got an e-mail folder that is less than organized and you need to locate an e-mail that mysteriously disappeared? Open the contact and this time click on the Activities tab. Wait a few seconds and Outlook will grab all things related to that person. You also have the option of looking at all items or just e-mails. If you get in the habit of entering a contact at the bottm of your appointments, it will also display all upcoming appointments.

Ever find yourself in the middle of a composing a long e-mail and have to run off to do something else? Just click on Save. Your mail is not sent, but awaiting you in your Drafts folder. This way, if a helpful associate turns your computer off, you don't lose those wonderful thoughts.

Distribution Lists? Outlook allows you to create distribution lists for conveniently sending email to a group of people. To crease a list, open Tools > Address Book. click on File > New Group. Enter a name for the group and click on Select Members to add contacts to the group. To send an e-mail to a group, crease the message you want to send and in the To field, enter you name. click on CC, and choose your group's name. To hide the names and e-mail address of the people whom you are sending the e-mail, click on the BCC button instead of CC. This message will be sent to every contact in that group.

E-mailing Notes? Sending a note in your Notes folder to someone via e-mail takes only a right click. Select the note you want to forward, right click it and click on Forward. A new e-mail dialog will pop up with the note attached.

Display Contacts by Nickname? If you have contact whose nicknames means more to you than his or her real name, you can display the entry by nickname instead of real name. To look up a contact using a nickname, open the person's entry in your Contacts list and in the "File as" area, type the nickname you want to use.

New Contacts from Incoming E-mail. Adding people to your Address book is a piece of cake if the person has either mailed to your or is included in any e-mail you get. The name can be in either the From, To or the CC field. To add contact from a person from an e-mail, open the right click name you want to add to the contact list. click on Add to Contacts in the context menu and entry for the contact will open with the name and e-mail address already filled in. Fill you other details if required and save the contact.

Ensure E-mail Delivery. Outlook features tracking options for your e-mail. now you can make sure that important message has reached its destination to has been read. While composing your message, click on the Options button on the Standard toolbar. Here you can enable a read receipt for yore message.  Beware!  Not all e-mail systems support this feature and the recipient can set her Outlook to refuse to send a read receipt.

You can quickly create simple rules to move messages into specific folders from specific recipients.

  1. Select a message from that recipient.

  2. Click the Create Rule button on the toolbar.

  3. Click the From box.

  4. Click the Move e-mail to folder: box.

  5. Click the Select Folder… button to specify the folder in which to move the messages when they arrive.

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