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Outlook 2010: How to Set Up a Short Delay for All Messages You Send

contributed by Rob Rogers on November 23, 2011 under Microsoft Outlook

One of the benefits of email is that it’s quick, but sometimes this isn’t such a great thing if you hit Send and then remembered that you didn’t attach the intended files or include vital information. By setting up a short delay of only a few minutes, you will give yourself adequate time to catch these shortcomings prior to the message going out.

Office 365: How to Enable Blind Carbon Copy (Bcc) in Outlook

contributed by Rob Rogers on August 22, 2011 under Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook

If you are sending an email out to a few people or a mailing list, you probably are wanting to hide the list of addresses from each recipient. You do this by using the blind carbon copy field in the message you are creating. The Outlook web app has this field hidden by default, to unhide the field, follow these steps:

Office 365: Automatically Empty Outlook’s Deleted Items When Signing Out

contributed by Rob Rogers on August 10, 2011 under Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook

If you are worried about your Deleted Items folder becoming overly large, you can configure the Outlook Web App to automatically empty the Deleted Items folder whenever you sign out of Office 365. This comes in especially handy when you are concerned about size limits on how large your inbox can be.

Office 365: Change How Messages Are Marked as Read in Outlook’s Reading Pane

contributed by Rob Rogers on August 9, 2011 under Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook

By default, the Outlook Web App marks items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane whenever the selection changes. You can turn this functionality off, or have Outlook wait a certain amount of time before marking the item as read.

Outlook Mac 2011: Adding Holidays to your Calendar

contributed by David Kirk on June 17, 2011 under Microsoft Outlook

Outlook allows the user to add holidays from multiple countries into the calendar.

Outlook for Mac 2011: Display Separate Inboxes for Each Account

contributed by Rob Rogers on May 25, 2011 under Apple Mac, Microsoft Outlook

By default, Outlook’s folder list groups together the inboxes and other similar folders from all mail accounts. If you want your inboxes kept separate, you can disable this feature.

Outlook 2010: Forward multiple emails in one single email

contributed by Lê Hoàng on May 20, 2011 under Microsoft Outlook

If you have a large number of emails to forward to a recipient, you may find it time-consuming to forward them one by one. Here is how you can combine all of the emails into one single email. This method will not only save your time, but also keep your recipient’s inbox clean.

Outlook for Mac 2011: Configure My Day to Open When Your Computer Starts

contributed by Rob Rogers on May 17, 2011 under Apple Mac, Microsoft Outlook

My Day is a small window that displays your appointments, contacts and tasks for easy reference, even when Outlook isn’t open. By configuring My Day to open when your computer starts, you will always be able to keep track of what your day has planned for you.