Outlook and Exchange Tips

Tip 1
Flag for Follow – how to add a flag to an email to remind you to respond to it.

Tip 2
Recovering Deleted Items & Checking Folder Size – how to get back emails you deleted; also how to make sure you don’t exceed your email quota.

Tip 3
Sorting by Size & Removing Attachments – a continuation of our series to show you how to make sure you don’t exceed your quota.

Tip 4
More Tips on Sorting email – Our final in a series of 3 tips on sorting email.

Tip 5
Finding and Creating Addresses in Outlook/Exchange – How to find people on the Exchange serve, how to create contacts.

Tip 6
Name and Address Checking in Outlook – how to make sure you have the right email address for people on Exchange

Tip 7
Checking Names in Outlook Web Access – Similar to Tip 5 & 6 however this explores how to do this on the web.

Tip 8
Making a contact from an e-mail message – shows how to take an email and add the sender to the contacts folder

Tip 9
Continuation of Tip 8, goes into modifying contacts and the options available for adding information to a tip.

Tip 10
Printing an Email with Attachments — Shows the most direct way to print an email message along with any attachments

Tip 11
Outlook allows users to send messages to vote on a question.  This tip shows how to set up a vote and how to check responses.

Tip 12
Sharing a calendar in Outlook/Exchange.  This shows how to allow others to view items on your calendar.

Tip 13
Personal Folders in Outlook allow you to save emails while not exceeding your Exchange Quota.

Tip 14
Archiving allows you to take older emails which you may no longer need readily, but may have some need of in the future, put them into an archive; this helps manage your Exchange quota.

Tip 15
Tip 15 expands on tip 14 and discusses how to transfer items from Exchange to personal folders.  As with the case of archiving, this also can help manage your Exchange quota.

Tip 16
Tip 16 shows you how to choose items to export and how to create the personal folders file which will then appear in your folder list.  By exporting to a .PST you free up space on the Exchange Server.

Tip 17
Tip 17 demonstrates how to take the .pst we created in tip 16 and open it on a different computer.  Two methods are demonstrated in this tip, simply opening the .pst from a read/write device, and  importing the .pst to an existing mail folder.  

Tip 18
This tip will show you how to give others access to your Exchange calendar.  This is most helpful for someone wanting their administrative assistant to be able to view their calendar and possibly make appointments for them. 

Tip 19
This tip will show you how to plan a meeting in Oulook. We will show you how to check the free/busy schedule of your attendees so you can pick a time that might best work for everyone.

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