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Ask LH: Which Calendars Let You Scroll By Week?

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1:00PM November 11, 2011 | Angus Kidman

Dear Lifehacker, In Outlook on Windows, I can scroll by week in the month view. It annoys me that I can’t do this in Outlook on Mac, iCal, Google Calendar and iPhone. Is there any other calendar app or cloud calendar that allows me to scroll week by week while in the month view? Thanks, Scrolling Savant More »

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Quickly Add Screenshots In An Outlook Email

2:30AM August 25, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Outlook 2010 has a cool but obscure feature that might save you some time: Insert Screenshot, which lets you quickly create a screen grab and insert it into the body of your email. More »

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Outlook Sync Keeps Outlook Data The Same Between Computers

10:30PM August 11, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Windows: Keeping two computers’ Outlook data in sync without the help of Exchange Server has always been a bit of a puzzle. Outlook Sync, from CodeTwo, is a free plugin that makes updating two machines’ Outlook data quite simple. More »

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Use Personal Folder Backup With Outlook 2010

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9:30AM July 4, 2011 | Angus Kidman

Annoyingly, Outlook doesn’t have a built-in backup tool for the PST file which stores all your data. Equally annoyingly, the free backup tool Microsoft supplies doesn’t work with Outlook 2010. Fortunately, you can work around that. More »

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Scrubly Removes Duplicate Contacts From Gmail, Outlook And More

8:00AM June 6, 2011 | Alan Henry

If your address book or contacts list is virtually unusable because of the number of duplicates and unwanted entries, Scrubly can help tidy them up. It’ll search your contacts, and when it finds dupes, it’ll show them to you to merge, manage, or automatically clean. More »

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How To Sync Your Desktop Email Client Across Multiple Computers

1:00AM May 27, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

If you use webmail like Gmail or Hotmail, there’s really no syncing needed to keep your email coordinated across multiple computers — open up your web browser on any computer and everything is just as you left it. Those of us who prefer — or are required to use — a desktop program like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird, however, have to work a little harder to get our emails, contacts, calendar events and tasks synchronised across multiple devices. Here’s how to set it up. More »

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Business Of Your Brain Analyses Your Outlook Data, Reports Your Productivity Killers

10:30PM May 26, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

Windows only: Your Outlook data holds valuable clues about the way you work and what’s stopping you from being productive. Business of Your Brain helps visualise that data, analysing the types of emails you receive, when your email tends to overflow, and more. More »

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Force Outlook To Prompt You Before It Closes

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10:00AM January 5, 2011 | Angus Kidman

Outlook is a pretty slow program to launch, so if you accidentally click on the close control, it’s a teeth-gnashing moment. Use some email trickery to force Outlook to check before you quit. More »

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Disable Protected View Mode In Office 2010 To Open Outlook Attachments

12:30AM December 7, 2010 | Amit Agarwal

Microsoft Office 2010 knows there are Word-based macro viruses out there. It’s so protective, in fact, it can be a bit annoying when you’re trying to open Outlook attachments from co-workers. Tech blogger Amit Agarwal explains how to disable Word’s “Protected View”. More »

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Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet For Outlook 2011 For Mac

2:00AM November 2, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

In making the transition from Entourage to actual Outlook, Outlook 2011 for Mac changed more than just its looks. A notable number of keyboard shortcuts have been tweaked just enough to be confusing to those who thought they’d mastered their Mac’s menu realm. More »