January 9, 2008

How to filter past due reminders to the top of Outlook 2003’s reading pane

Date: January 7th, 2008

Author: Susan Harkins

One of the most frustrating tasks I face is remembering to respond to E-mail messages in a timely manner. If I don’t answer an E-mail immediately, it soon drops out of generic cialis buy sight and out of mind. Before you know it, I’ve let something important fall through the cracks.

Flags can be helpful, as far as they go, but as is, they’re useless if you can’t see them! Of course, you can sort by flags, but that simply groups messages by flag category—it doesn’t alert you to follow-up reminders that are past due or quickly approaching.

The easiest solution is a custom view that includes the Due By field. However, if you’ve tried that and it didn’t work you probably used the wrong date field. You must sort by the E-mail Due By field in order for this helpful view to force overdue and current E-mail reminders to the top of the reading pane.

To create this custom view, select the appropriate folder and do the following:

  1. Choose Arrange By from the View menu.
  2. Select Current View and then Customize Current View.
  3. Click Fields in the Customize View dialog box.
  4. Choose All Mail Fields from the Select Available Fields From dropdown list.
  5. Double-click Due By and click OK twice to return to Outlook.

The fields at the top of the reading pane should now include Due By. Simply click this field to sort messages by the flag’s due date. Over due items will sort to the very top, followed by any items for the current day, and so on.

This technique depends on the use of flag reminders. If there are no flags, or your flags have no due dates, the sort is moot. To set a Due By date for a follow-up flag (red by default), do the following:

  1. Right-click the flag icon and choose Add Reminder.
  2. The Flag To item should be Follow To (make sure to select that item if it’s not already selected).
  3. In the Due By control, choose a date from the dropdown calendar.
  4. Click OK.

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Now, a single click sorts your most critically timed reminders to the top of the reading pane, where you can quickly deal with the most urgent.

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January 8, 2008

Outlook – No More Saving One at a Time

Tired of saving e-mail attachments one at a time in MS Outlook?

I mean, you have to save them all, but who wants to go through opening each one and saving them separately? Not me! So, how can you expedite the situation and save them all in one quick move?

That's a good question and fortunately, I have a good answer!

Here's the scoop on saving many attachments (to the same folder location) with one swift move.

First, select the e-mail that has the attachments to be saved.

Next, you'll need the File menu, Save Attachments submenu.

When the submenu opens, it will list all of the attachments and at the bottom, you should see a choice for All Attachments. Go ahead and select it.

The Save All Attachments dialogue window will then open, allowing you to modify your choice from "All" to just some of the files. You may need to use the Ctrl key to deselect something if you really weren't looking to save all of them.

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When you've made sure the highlighted list represents the files you need to save, click OK.

A window will then appear that works just like all of the windows where you save files. Navigate to the folder where the files should be saved and click OK.

That's it! They've all been saved with one quick process.

Now, obviously, that method puts all of the files into one location. If you have different locations for different groups of attachments, you will need to repeat the process and select different files to save each time.

Save one, save two or save them all. It's up to you now!

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December 20, 2007

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December 3, 2007

Outlook Keyboard Shortcuts

Time for a Fast Forward

Love your keyboard and hate your mouse?

Do you find that the old routine of mouse, keyboard, mouse, keyboard simply takes up too much of your precious time when you're going through your e-mail?

Looking for a few MS Outlook keyboard shortcuts to make your e-mail time more productive?

If you answered, "Yes, yes, yes," here's exactly what you've been looking for:

  • Ctrl + Shift + I will take you straight to the Inbox.

  • Ctrl + Shift + O will put you into the Outbox.

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Once you're in a mailbox:

  • Enter (while a message is highlighted) will open the message.

  • Ctrl + N will open a new e-mail message.

  • Ctrl + R will reply to the current message (either highlighted or already opened).

  • Ctrl + F will forward the current message (either highlighted or already opened).

Once you're in a message:

  • Tab will advance you one field forward (from the To: field to the Cc: field, etc).

  • Shift + Tab will send you one field backwards.

And finally (at least for this tip):

  • Ctrl + Enter will send your e-mail message.

It seems to me this may put you well on your way to a more efficient, mouseless e-mailing process!

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November 5, 2007

Do you use the Preview/Reading Pane in MS Outlook?

Are you tired of using your mouse to jump between the Inbox cialis for sale and the Preview Pane to select an e-mail, move down and scroll through the preview, then go up to the Inbox again and back to scrolling, etc., etc. It just goes on and on and on!

Wish you had an easier way to preview the entire message without all the mouse games?

If you're thinking this is what you've been looking for, you're in luck, because I have just the trick for you!

You can trade in your mouse for one little (or not so little) key. The space bar is all you need to scroll through your e-mail previews.

Once you're in the Inbox with an e-mail highlighted, simply hit the space bar and zoom, zoom! You should see the message in the Preview/Reading Pane, scrolling right before your eyes.

Reached the end of the e-mail?

Don't reach for that mouse!

Hit the space bar again and you should find that the e-mail selection jumps down one message and you're ready to use the space bar to scroll through that one too.

Did you give this tip a try and have no luck?

Then maybe you need to make some adjustments to your Outlook settings to enable this feature.

Try going to the Tools menu, Options choice.

In the Options window, click to the Other tab.

In Outlook 2007, you're looking for the Reading Pane button:

In older versions of Outlook, you need the Preview Pane button:

In any case, another window will open where you can alter the Preview/Reading Pane options.

Make sure the "Single key reading using space bar" choice is checked.

Click OK.

Again, in the Options window, click OK.

With that accomplished, you should find that you are able to use the space bar for e-mail scrolling in the Preview/Reading Pane.

It's a one key wonder that puts an end to the time consuming process of reading your e-mails with your mouse in hand. It doesn't get any better than that!

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