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Office 2010: Change the default format when saving files

contributed by Lê Hoàng on October 26, 2011 under Microsoft Office

By default, when you open the Save as dialog in Office programs like Word, Powerpoint or Excel, the file type in the Save as type section will be the type for Office 2010. Although you can manually change the file type to others by choosing them from the drop-down menu, it may be a good idea to set the type that you use frequently as default to save time.

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.

Office 365: How to Add External Contacts to the Global Address List

contributed by Rob Rogers on August 6, 2011 under Microsoft Office

Since some aspect of your work is sure to require corresponding with contacts outside your organization, such as customers, services, or other colleagues who aren’t part of your company. These contacts can be added to your Global Address List so that they can be easily accessed by your team.

Word 2010: Change Hyperlink Color

contributed by Lê Hoàng on July 3, 2011 under Microsoft Word

By default, the hyperlink color in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 is blue. If the color does not blend well with your document theme, you can easily change it using the following steps.

Word 2010: Allow users to edit only some parts of the document

contributed by Lê Hoàng on July 1, 2011 under Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Windows

When sending documents to your colleagues, it may be a good idea to lock most parts your works and only let them edit some small portions if necessary. Here, I show you how to do exactly that in Microsoft Word 2010.

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.

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