Written by The New Paperclip on April 15, 2008 – 9:51 pm
It has happened to the best of us. Your day is going along great, and then all of a sudden you get an Outlook reminder… a reminder for that meeting you totally forgot about.
Now you just have 15 minutes to salvage something out of nothing and impress the boss/wife/colleague/all of the above.
Don’t want to get […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 14, 2008 – 8:38 pm
Want to be a desktop publishing great, spreadsheeting wiz or PowerPoint guru and help the environment at the same time?
Guess what - you might be already!
Microsoft have released an extra section on Microsoft Office Online called Lighten up: Reduce your carbon footprint and workplace costs.
Obviously they left one tip for reducing your impact on the […]
Written by The New Paperclip on August 19, 2007 – 4:44 pm
Want to know lots of in depth techincal stuff about Microsoft Office? Well if I can’t answer it, there are plenty of people at Microsoft who know their stuff!
One of them is Alistair Speirs, a Office Technology Specialst at Microsoft Australia. If you want to dive deep into everything office (beyond the tutorials from yours […]
Written by The New Paperclip on June 8, 2007 – 10:15 pm
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 […]
Written by The New Paperclip on June 8, 2007 – 9:22 pm
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 […]
Written by The New Paperclip on June 4, 2007 – 10:46 pm
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 […]
Written by The New Paperclip on June 4, 2007 – 10:32 pm
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 […]
Written by The New Paperclip on May 6, 2007 – 12:33 pm
A lot of organisations have had a chance to play around with Office 2007 for a while now, and are now walking down the road of deployment. But where to start? Deployment has changed a little from previous versions of Microsoft Office, so it might be a good idea to brush up on a few […]
Written by The New Paperclip on May 2, 2007 – 7:11 pm
Here is a quick tip that will make you more productive. When you receive an email in Outlook 2007 that you need for follow up at a later time, simply click the little flag beside the email in the inbox.
To keep track of all the emails that you have flagged in your inbox, make sure […]
Written by The New Paperclip on April 10, 2007 – 9:33 pm
A question popped up on The New Paperclip forums that I thought I might share with you all….
“How do you set the default font in Outlook 2007?”
It is easy in Word 2007… but in Outlook 2007 it is a little different… but here is how!
Click “Tools” -> “Options”
Select the “Mail Format” tab
Click “Stationery and Fonts…”
On […]