When you are writing a document, you need to make it easy to read.  Professional writers sometimes talk about things called “Entry Points”…  points where a reader can quickly and easily start reading your document and pick up what you are trying to say.
Bullet points do exactly that!
Bullet points allow you to quickly structure information […]

Do you have a message that you want to send to multiple contacts, but you don’t want to do the old BCC trick?  Better yet… do you want to actually personalise the message for each recipient? 
Instead of “Hi all”, what about “Hi Bill”, “Hi Jane” etc?
You can, with email merge in Word 2007.
Email merge works […]

If you are like me… you always click send… and then realise just before the email disappears that there is a huge spelling mistake right in the middle of your email.  Don’t you just hate that!  I have been caught out so many times… if only there was a way to automatically spell check all […]

Here is a quick way to control how the pop up email notification (you might know it as the desktop alert, or toast) acts and looks in Outlook 2007.

Got to Tools, then Options in the menu
On the preferences tab, in the E-mail section click on the “E-mail Options…” button
Then click on the “Advanced E-mail Options…” button
Then click […]

Some people like them… some people hate them.  That’s right, we are talking about new email notifications.  It doesn’t matter what you call them… the popup thing in the bottom right hand corner… the envelope down the bottom beside the time… the toast… some people love them, and some people hate them.
How to turn on […]