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RSS Feeds in Outlook – The Hidden Mailbox Hog

We’ve blogged before (here, here, and here) about what a challenge it can be to keep your mailbox under its size limit. Today we’ll talk about the overlooked folder that can keep a mailbox at the brink of overload – the RSS Feeds folder. The RSS Feeds folder was introduced in Outlook 2007 and is also available in 2010. [...]

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Connect a SharePoint Calendar to Outlook

SharePoint Calendars are a great way to keep calendars that multiple people can edit. That is, they’re great until you have to open SharePoint to add or edit an appointment. Personally, I much prefer calendar management in Outlook. If you feel the same way, I have good news for you–you can view and edit a [...]

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Show in Groups in Microsoft Outlook

Sometimes on Friday, you really need to find that email someone sent you on Wednesday. But if you have a lot of email, scanning the date received column can be blinding. One day runs into another. The solution? Show in Groups. Show in Groups lumps your email in groups and adds a heading for each group. [...]

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Move Contacts from Excel to Outlook

Imagine a colleague gives you a giant spreadsheet of contacts and tells you that you’ll be emailing these people frequently for a new project. Should you spend hours painstakingly adding each contact into Outlook so you can easily email them? Fortunately, the answer is “No.” Instead, you can export the contacts to a CSV (comma [...]

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Reduce Inbox Spam in Outlook

Most of us receive more email than we can easily handle. And most of us receive spam–unwanted and unsolicited email, usually from people trying to sell things. One way to help with email overload is to keep spam out of your Inbox. Fortunately, Outlook has two built in features that help reduce spam. One is [...]

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