Archive for 'Microsoft Office' Category
Outlook Quick Steps
I was missing my shortcut to move things into folders in the new Outlook this morning so I started to look into it and remembered the Quick Steps. In Outlook 2010 you can create Quick Steps to perform tasks for you. So Quick Step SHIFT+CTRL+2 on my computer will categorize the message as Jux-TX and [...]
Outlook 2010
So the new social connector in Outlook 2010 will sync your LinkedIn contacts to your Outlook. It puts them in their own folder but that is fine. The Facebook connector should be released soon and so I would expect something similar there. Have not had much time to play with Outlook 2010 since yesterday with [...]
All Good Things
Well today was a pretty good day. I upgrade to Office Pro 2010 and got the new Kindle 2.5 update. I have to admit the nerd life was pretty good to me today. Now I will have to begin the deep playing and look at some of the Outlook 2010 features I already found out [...]
Personal Outlook Ribbon
Do you want a personalized ribbon? One with your name on it? Well now you can have it. I remember reading about the inability of Office 2007 to create a ribbon and then just read the email that Microsoft sent me about Office 2010 and how you can create your very own ribbon. I am [...]
Outlook Quick Steps
One of the things I have setup in my Outlook now is a couple of short cuts – move to and copy to. These make it easy to create tasks from emails and to move them out of the inbox. One of the Quick Steps is “Done” which will mark the item as complete, read [...]
Office 2010 – Delete All
OK a bit more playing and there are a few small thing that I have found in Office 2010. I actually went and read a bunch of reviews but they didn’t give me anything useful to me. First thing is right click on a folder in Outlook and get the option – Delete All. After [...]
Office 2010 Beta
What does a nerd do on Thanksgiving day? Download Office 2010 Beta and play with it. After eating turkey, ham, dressing, potatoes, green beans, and lots of dessert – and saving a baby from a locked car (story in a sec). Office 2010 with only 30 minutes of play time does not have any significant [...]
Quick Reference
Do you find yourself always asking the same questions over and over to your closest geek? Are you tired of seeing their frustration when you ask, “What did you tell me to press to highlight everything on the page?” Try these quickguides I just found. There is one for almost all of your commonly used [...]
OST Compaction
For those of us who use Outlook with Exchange, we may need to compact the OST file to improve speed. Different versions of Outlook have slightly different instructions. Both are listed below.
Method 1: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
Delete any items that you do not want to keep, and then empty the Deleted Items folder.
On the Tools menu, click Account [...]
Outlook Speed
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, we have decided to move to BCM for our contact management. It has been a good move thus far and I am very satisfied with the decision. One of the things I immediately noticed during the initial few days – Outlook had not changed speed. Upon further review [...]