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How to have a clean inbox in 2010
OutlookPower Magazine - December 2009
2010 is right around the corner, and a new year always feels like a fresh start. Don't your email accounts deserve a fresh start too?

Email your holiday greeting without losing that personal touch
OutlookPower Magazine - November 2009
Great aunt Mildred might want to get a physical card, but these days, email is the way to go. It's becoming more and more accepted. Just because you send out email holiday greetings, that doesn't mean you don't really care. In this article, I'll show you some tricks for looking like you care as much as you really do, even though you're using email instead of dead trees.

How not to screw up when you send email
OutlookPower Magazine - June 2009
Mistakes made while emailing could go from bad...to really bad. As it turns out, two of our favorite developers, Sanjay Singh of Standss and Mike Sperry of Software have developed a number of Outlook add-ins that are designed to help out.

How to separate email accounts and still manage them
OutlookPower Magazine - June 2009
How can you separate your various email accounts so they go into a separate email inbox for each address? That's the question reader Stephan Helgesen asked us, and we answer in depth in this week's OutlookPower.

Sperry Software's Attachment Save for Microsoft Outlook
OutlookPower Magazine - February 2008
In Kathy T. Evans-Davis' last article, she showed you MAPILab's Attachments Process for Outlook. In this article, she reviews Sperry Software's Attachment Save for Microsoft Outlook (Version 4.0), which is an excellent product for automatically managing those email attachments, worry-free. Which one should you buy? You'll have to read her article to find out.

MAPILab's Attachments Processor for Microsoft Outlook
OutlookPower Magazine - February 2008
In my last article, I gave you an unorthodox comparison of trimming your mailbox with trimming your waistline. This go round, I'll introduce to you a more conventional way of downsizing your Microsoft Outlook mailbox. Tired of manually saving your email attachments? Well, thanks to MAPILab's Attachments Processor for Outlook, your troubles could be over.

Dieting tips for effective data loss: downsizing your mailbox
OutlookPower Magazine - November 2007
If your mailbox is too big, this is the article you should read. Kathy Evans-Davis will show you a bunch of neat methods for reducing the size of your mailbox, making Outlook run more effectively, and eating right. Yep, somehow Kathy managed to sneak in some healthy advice for overworked email users in addition to advice for managing your email.

Five easy ways to save an hour a day in Outlook
OutlookPower Magazine - August 2007
If you're like Contributing Editor Bill Mann, you spend much of your day in Outlook. Wouldn't it be nice to spend less time there, and more time doing other stuff, maybe even spending some time away from the computer? Bill can't guarantee you a specific result (despite the title of this article), but if you take advantage of the five techniques he describes here, you will save significant time in Outlook every day.

Using folders with Outlook to organize your mail
OutlookPower Magazine - May 2006
Organization is very important to Managing Editor Denise Amrich. You'd know that if you saw her desk. Because of her zeal for folders, she's thrilled that they exist as tools in Outlook. In this Outlook Basics article, she discusses how to create and organize Outlook folders.

Don't become a slave to email
OutlookPower Magazine - July 2005
Brad Meador works at ClearContext, a company that builds an Outlook add-in for managing email. In this incredibly helpful article, Brad shares six powerful tips for keeping yourself from becoming a slave to email.

The Deleted Items folder is not a filing cabinet
OutlookPower Magazine - August 2004
Are you guilding of using your Deleted Items folder as a filing cabinet? If so, you might be in for something of a rude awakening. This article by Contributing Editor Diane Poremsky shows why.

Cleaning up your mailbox
OutlookPower Magazine - June 2004
It's easy for a mailbox to grow to an uncontrollable size when you use NewsGator to pull RSS feeds, get a lot of unsolicted email, or just get a ton of mail. Fortunately, it's also easy to automatically delete old messages from specific folders using AutoArchive or, for Exchange server mailboxes, Mailbox Manager. This article will show you how.

Do you have the blues?
OutlookPower Magazine - June 2004
As you may know, when Outlook is first installed, it defaults to sending text out that's colored blue. This oh-so-self-indulgent article will tell you how to change the color back, Jack.

My seven favorite myths about Outlook
OutlookPower Magazine - May 2004
Anything that has wide use or notoriety eventually develops a degree of mythos attached to it. Myths, urban legends, and rumors often abound. Given that Outlook is one of the most widely used computer applications worldwide, there's no shortage of myths surrounding the product and its behavior. In this article, our Outlook guru Diane Poremsky outlines seven of her favorite myths.

Changing SMTP servers on the fly
OutlookPower Magazine - March 2004
Many ISPs require that users route all outbound mail through their mail servers (that is, the ISP's servers, rather than, say, your company's own mail server). If you happen to use several different ISPs, you'll to change the SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) account each time you change how you connect to the Internet. If you find this tedious, we have an easier way.

Using symbols in your messages and documents
OutlookPower Magazine - September 2003
This week's column is about using symbols and isn't just for Outlook. You can use symbols with all Office programs and some Windows programs.

Sending links to Web pages
OutlookPower Magazine - July 2003
As Outlook users on Windows XP have discovered, it's difficult to use Internet Explorer's File->Send->Link by Email to send links to Web pages, as Microsoft removed the text link added to the message body, leaving just the URL attachment. In this week's tip, Diane Poremsky will show you where to find solutions to fix this problem.

Ode to the shift key
OutlookPower Magazine - April 2003
Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz waxes poetic about how the shift key can help you delete items.

Managing vacation time replies
OutlookPower Magazine - June 2002
Going on vaction soon? Contributing Editor Diane Poremsky shows you how you can create autoreplies whether you're using Exchange server or Outlook as a stand-alone application so you can enjoy your vacation.

Controlling out of office replies
OutlookPower Magazine - June 2002
Following her recent column on using Out of Office replies, Contributing Editor Diane Poremsky answers a reader's question about sending autoreplies only to people within an organization.

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