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How often do you empty your Deleted Items folder in Outlook? Ever wish that once you delete an email it was really gone for good and not just going to your Deleted Items folder? There is a way to quickly delete e-mails permanently – but be warned- once they are gone, they are GONE! They cannot be brought back.

Often, if multiple parties are responding to one e-mail, all of their responses might not be included in the same string.

Did you know sent items can be quickly filed just like received e-mails?

Often, if multiple parties are responding to one e-mail, all of their responses might not be included in the same string. If a user needs to find one of the e-mails related to that subject, a great find feature is “by subject”.

You will want to start using the follow-up flags for your mail and contacts once you realize that you can now add a reminder – just like your appointment reminders. Never forget about an important email or contact again.

Remember when you first transitioned from a paper daytimer to an electronic calendar-keeping device? Too often, you had an appointment on one but not the other. Depending on where you looked, appointments could slip through the cracks. Wouldn’t it have been nice to transfer the paper documents into an electronic format that combined and synchronized both at the click of a mouse?

In Windows, your Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents save to the My Documents folder by default. However, if you save your documents to a folder on the network or another location, you always have to navigate to another location every time you need to save a file.

Do you have multiple outlook calendars you want to view as one? Outlook allows you to overlay them, so all appointments can be viewed on one calendar, even though they are separate calendars.

Mail Merge is one of the truly useful features that keeps a person from throwing their computer out the window. It, essentially, allows a person to print labels or envelopes from their contacts in Outlook. The clip to the left describes how to do this. Learn more in our Advanced Word class.

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Any word or image in a Microsoft Outlook e-mail can hyperlink to a document or webpage just like on the internet. E-mail addresses and Web addresses automatically do this (just type the address including the www or @ sign for e-mail and hit Enter or the Space Bar), but you can link words or phrases [...]