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Quickly Clean Your Inbox in Outlook 2003/2007

If you get hundreds of emails every day your inbox can fill up quickly. Outlook 2003 has an easy way to clean up your inbox quickly without having to go through each email individually to decide what needs to be kept….

Brian Burgess Apr 23rd, 2007

Save Time With Distribution Lists in Outlook 2003

Everybody sends out emails to the same group of people on a regular basis, but most people don’t realize that you can create your own private list of email addresses in Outlook by using the Distribution List feature….

Brian Burgess Apr 21st, 2007

How To Import a CSV File Containing a Column With a Leading 0 Into Excel

Microsoft Excel will automatically convert data columns into the format that it thinks is best when opening comma-separated data files. For those of us that don’t want our data changed, we can change that behavior….

PingTong Apr 20th, 2007

Create an Email Template in Outlook 2003

If you have an email you send out every day that contains the same information, or a form that requires users to dictate answers to the same questions – you can create a template in Outlook to help save you time….

Brian Burgess Apr 17th, 2007

Clear the Auto-Complete Email Address Cache in Outlook

Outlook 2003 has an automatic completion for any email address that you try to type into the To or CC fields. This feature does not pull from the contacts or address book, because you may have tried to email somebody that was…

Lowell Heddings Dec 6th, 2006

Use "Find As You Type" Search in Visual Studio 2005

Visual Studio 2005 includes a great feature that they call Incremental Search, but I like to call “find as you type”, because that’s really what it does.

Lowell Heddings Nov 22nd, 2006

Encrypt Traffic Between Outlook and Exchange

If you are using Outlook 2003 with a Microsoft Exchange server for your email, typically in a corporate environment, you may be interested to know that you can encrypt all network communications between the Outlook client and…

Lowell Heddings Nov 20th, 2006

Export Exchange Global Address List to Access

Outlook doesn’t give you an option to export the Exchange Global Address list to any format. You don’t even have the option to sort while searching, which drives me crazy.. If I want to see who works in the Houston office, I …

Lowell Heddings Nov 16th, 2006