It’s the unofficial start to summer! It’s time to turn on your away message and get lost. But before you do, make sure you are covered. Here are some tips to keep your e-mail house in order while you enjoy the season: [Read more...]
Making Meetings: 4 Top Outlook Tips
March 9, 2010 By
“If it’s 4:30 pm in Phoenix…”
Have you ever had to plan a meeting for participants across multiple time zones? Outlook can help you out in many cases by allowing you to see more than one time zone or automatically adjusting for different time zones. In this post, we offer tips for time zones and many other issues related to scheduling meetings in Outlook.
Part One: Planning, Changing, Canceling
And, if it’s 4:30 pm in Phoenix, it’s 10:30 am in Sydney — but what day?
Planning a Meeting in Outlook
(Outlook 2002, 2003, 2007)
By Matt Mahoney
The core feature of Outlook is the calendar. This invaluable tool helps you keep track of your appointments and enables you to schedule meetings with colleagues. Here’s how to invite attendees to a meeting.
Outlook 2007:
1. Click the File menu, choose New, and then choose Meeting Request.
2. On the Meeting tab of the Ribbon, click the “Scheduling” button (depending on your mail server configuration, this button may also be called “Scheduling Assistant”), located in the Show group. Then click the “Add Others” button at the [Read more...]
5 Tech Tips: Relax by the Fire Edition
December 22, 2009 By
Although the weather and the traffic are enough to make some swear off the winter holidays all together, two short work weeks in a row is what makes it worth enduring. The business world in general moves at a slower pace during this pleasant period — and it’s even more relaxing if you remember to set your away messages before you leave the office on Dec. 24. We’ve compiled a list of tips to get you ready for your yuletide break.
Outlook: Activating the Out of Office Assistant (versions 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007)
By Mary Hazel McDermott
Top tips to get you ready for your yuletide break.
Before you leave on vacation or even a long weekend, it is a good idea to set up an Out of Office message. This allows Outlook to reply automatically to each person that sends you a message when you are not there. Outlook replies only once to each person to avoid creating a large volume of messages.
Turning on the out of office message:
- Click on the Tools menu and click on Out of Office Assistant. (If you do not see Out of Office Assistant, the option may be disabled; call the help desk for assistance.)
- Select “I Am Currently Out Of The Office.”
- Set up your AutoReply message.
- Click OK.
Turning off the out of office message: [Read more...]
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