Use Outlook 2007 as an RSS Reader
For those of us that have to use Outlook 2007 at work, you should know that it not only handles mail and calendars, but also makes a very nice RSS reader as well. Of course, I don't need to tell the couple hundred of you that are already reading the How-To Geek feed this way =)
To subscribe to an RSS feed, just open Outlook and go to Tools \ Account Settings…
The Account Settings dialog box will open up. Click the Feeds tab and select New…
Next copy and paste the URL of the feed into the address box then click Add.
In the resulting RSS Feed Options window you can choose various options which are self explanatory. When you're finished click OK.
That's it! Go down to your mail folders and select RSS Feeds. Now you can easily browse your favorite web articles in your email inbox.
…or just right click RSS Feeds and choose Add a new RSS Feed. i do like this feature.
I don't have Outlook 2007 yet - but was just curious if it's possible to import an OPML file (like from Google Reader)?
You can also do this directly from the webpage you want to access feeds from. In IE7, just go to the webpage, click the Feeds button (next to the Home, Print, Tools, etc buttons), then you should see a "Subscribe to this feed" link.
Thank you for the excellent article on adding RSS feeds to OUTLOOK 2007. I enjoy your site and the informative articles.
It should be noted that you can import an OPML file by right-clicking on the RSS Feeds folder and selecting "Import an OPML file…" and following the prompts.
is there a way to have outlook delete downloaded articles each day? for example, i have the washington post come to my feed, but i have to manually delete daily articles…any way to have outlook do that for me?
thanks
got it, nevermind. if you want to know, click properties on the folder, and use the archive feature…there you can select to delete after X number of days.