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Quick Steps Looks Like Office 2010’s Killer Feature

2:30AM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft’s Office 2010 has rolled out to trusted testers, and among the screenshots coming back, nothing seems so promising as the Quick Steps buttons. They’re like high-powered Send & Archive buttons that can be tweaked to do any multi-step action. More »
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Convert Outlook Emails To Plain Text, One-By-One Or Permanently

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Wired’s How-To Wiki points out that HTML emails rendered by Outlook are not only occasionally hard to format, they’ll look different (and broken) in many clients. They follow up with tips on turning some or all emails to plain text. More »
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How To Set Up AutoArchive For Outlook

1:00PM Angus Kidman | AutoArchive ensures that your Outlook email file doesn’t get too unwieldy, but the default settings aren’t necessarily very helpful. Here’s how to make sure your email is backed up into archives successfully. More »
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Gist Filters Your Inboxes Contact By Contact

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Lots of people can get a hold of you in multiple ways, and sometimes it’s all too much. Gist grabs your Gmail or Outlook messages, Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter pings and sorts it by contact and importance. More »
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Set A Password On Your Outlook File

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Don’t want co-workers snooping on your Outlook mail? Setting a system password to lock your entire machine remains the best tactic, but for added security you can also set a password on the Outlook file itself. More »
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MailRaider Reads Microsoft Outlook Email On Your Mac

4:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: If you’ve wanted to switch to a Mac but can’t wait until Microsoft Office hits OS X next year, free stopgap application MailRaider reads and displays Outlook’s MSG files on your Mac. More »
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Complete Guide To Making Outlook Faster (Than Molasses)

2:00AM The How-To Geek | If you are stuck using Microsoft Outlook to send those TPS reports at work, you’ve already experienced just how painfully slow it can get—but with a few quick tips you can make it usable again. More »
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Delete Outlook Emails With The Middle Mouse Button

2:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Grigory writes in with his ubergeeky script that deletes messages in Microsoft Outlook just by middle-clicking on them in the list—so you can make short work of cleaning out your inbox. More »
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Microsoft Outlook Coming To Mac Office

7:30AM Adam Pash | Microsoft today announced that the next version of Office for Mac will ship with Outlook. One major obstacle to adopting OS X in the workplace for many has been the lack of Microsoft Outlook for Macs—as Outlook is the de facto standard for most corporate environments. More »
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Use Windows Search To Find Deleted Outlook Mails

11:30AM Angus Kidman | Outlook 2007 offers much better search than its clunky predecessors, but by default it won’t search through its Deleted mail archive even if you choose the ‘All items’ option for a search. However, you can search through deleted email if you use Windows search instead. More »