Email Tips & Tutorials

This section contains email tips and tutorials. Topics range from how to research suspicious URLs to quickly deleting Gmail items.

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Pop-up dialog to identify new Quick Part.

Reuse Text & Images with Outlook Quick Parts

If you encounter email requests where the answers could share common elements, then you're a great candidate for Outlook Quick Parts. It's a feature of Microsoft Office that allows you to build mini templates. You can then insert these blocks into Microsoft Outlook emails, tasks, and calendar events. They are reusable blocks.
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Advantages of Outlook AutoComplete

Microsoft Outlook has some nice productivity features for email addresses called AutoComplete and AutoResolve. Each offers conveniences, but there are differences between the two. And if you're not careful, one of these can cause problems.
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Misbehaving Outlook Email

Some say that computer problems happen at the worst times. I’m not sure that is true, but I won’t argue. Without warning, my Outlook email stopped working last week. I could receive email, but I couldn’t open any items. Instead, I saw an error message that read “Cannot open this item. The text formatting command is not available. It may not be installed correctly. Install Microsoft Office Outlook again.”
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Create Image Signatures in Windows Mail or Live Mail

The default email signatures for Windows Mail is plain text. With a little time, you can spice up the emails to include an image as well.
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