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We always look for good images. Pictures tell a thousand words, making them ideal additions to blog posts, class projects, presentations, emails, and other social media applications. Fortunately, Microsoft drastically improved their Clip Art galleries in the last several years, adding thousands of high quality photographs.  Using Microsoft’s Clip Art galleries while connected to the [...]

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So often, appointments are scheduled through email.  I find that I often want the text of an email to be in the body of my appointment.  That way, when my reminder goes off, and I have no idea what the appointment is about, I can click Open Item, and see the details.  But copying and pasting the contents of an [...]

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The To-Do Bar is possibly my favorite addition to Outlook 2007.  It appears on the right side of Outlook, helps me keep track of my day by showing a small monthly calendar called the Date Navigator, my next several calendar appointments, and my Tasks list.  Thanks to the To-Do Bar I’m never caught by surprise by a meeting [...]

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When you paste something in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and some of the other Office programs, a Paste Options button will appear.  (It is usually at the bottom of the pasted material, although with something really long, I sometimes see it appear at the top right.)  If you click on this button, you see different options.  [...]

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You are probably aware that you can send a file as an attachment in Outlook.  (If you were not aware of it, read the Training Team’s Outlook 2003 instructions.  If you have Outlook 2007, just click on the paperclip button and then follow the 2003 instructions.)
What you might not know is that you can also [...]

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We received an email about using the Instant Search feature in Outlook. Instant Search is a great way to effectively go through and find specific email, attachments, contacts or notes in Outlook. Never again scroll through months of email looking for that lost message with the one thing you need. Instead use Instant Search to [...]

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I couldn’t possibly count the number of times I’ve accidentally typed teh and watched as Word magically rearranged the letters to spell the.  Nor can I count the number of times Word has made up for my inability to apply the i before e rule correctly.  Word is constantly correcting words like receive for me without my [...]

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One of the most convenient things I find in Outlook is that when I start to type an email address in the To, CC, or BCC line, Outlook suggests email addresses of people I’ve emailed before whose names or addresses start with those letters.  I can arrow down to the one I want to use, [...]

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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed a few sentences, then realized that Caps Lock was on.  And then there are all the times I’ve typed a title in a document, then decided that I wanted to capitalize the first letter of every word.  In the past, I would retype the text, or [...]

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Collaborating on documents through email can be a big headache.  Sending the document back and forth to people after each edit fills mailboxes, and leaves everyone with multiple copies of the same document.
If you are struggling with this, I think you might like using Microsoft’s shared attachments feature.  It works with Outlook and Sharepoint. The Exchange Server for the email [...]

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