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Tips and Tactics for a Better Digital Life
Removing formatting from Word documents
Handy quick tip: to remove all the formatting from a Word document press CTRL+A (to select all, or...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 08/24/2005
Frost on BBC Radio Berkshire
Punish your ears. Listen in to the BBC Radio Berkshire breakfast show tomorrow (24th August) between...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 08/23/2005
Disabling the pesky CTRL-ENTER shortcut
Ever hit CTRL-ENTER by mistake while composing an email in Outlook and wondered what the heck...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 08/23/2005
Good advice from 'The King'
My PC's been running really slowly this morning and I'm half expecting it to die completely any...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 08/22/2005
Longhorn gets a brand new Vista
It's official! At last the news is out. The next generation of Microsoft Windows operating system...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/22/2005
Making your calendar 'real pretty' in Visio
Those cheery folks at the Office Online site provide some great productivity tips. I recently...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/15/2005
What's the point of the Folder List in Outlook 2003?
If you've never noticed the Folder List in Outlook 2003, you're not alone. It's the sixth view...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/12/2005
Slip into Slipstick
Any power Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft Exchange Server users who haven't yet discovered...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/06/2005
Stop feeding me toast!
More on the tasty topic of toast... My advice is to switch off desktop alerts ('toasts') for all but...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/04/2005
How do you like your toast?
Those happy folks at Outlook Tips recently sent out a little gem showing how you can change how long...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/04/2005
Task auto-formatting on steroids
Outlook contains some automatic formatting rules to help you manage your Task list. For example,...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 07/01/2005
Bill's Incredible Adventure into the New World of Work
Bill Gates recently addressed the annual CIO conference with a presentation about "The New World of...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 06/21/2005
Inbox/Outbox 2005 - London, UK
I'll be speaking at the Inbox/Outbox 2005 event this week (on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 06/20/2005
Undoing your Outlook
We all make mistakes while using Outlook. My most common one is deleting emails before I've read...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 06/13/2005
See your Calendar in a different light
Calendar out of control? Frustrated that the 28 hour day still hasn't been introduced? Wondering...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 06/08/2005
(Part 2) More than just Outlook stuff in Outlook
Of course we all know that Outlook is a great place to store emails, calendar appointments and...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 06/02/2005
(Part 1) More than just Mail Folders in Outlook
Most Outlook users create new folders to store emails. But not everyone realises that you can add...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/19/2005
MSN Desktop Search final release
The full MSN Desktop Search tool was released yesterday. If you've been running the Beta version or...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/17/2005
The Monday before the first Wednesday of every month
Today I received a series of 12 new calendar appointments for 'the Monday before the first Wednesday...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/13/2005
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid
A friend sent me the following text recently. It highlights a few things for me. Firstly, it's...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/12/2005
Importing stuff into your Outlook Calendar (or Tasks) from Excel
Another handy way to add appointments to your calendar is by importing from Excel. To do this you...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/11/2005
Sensible names for Quick Flags in Outlook
Eileen recently blogged about an excellent resource for Outlook Users at www.outlooktips.net. Sign...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/10/2005
Adding really important dates to your Outlook holiday file
I stumbled across this helpful explanation of how to customise the Microsoft Office Outlook® 2003...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 05/05/2005
From tasks to appointments to the weekend
Here’s a great little productivity tip for Outlook. Use this whenever you need to set aside time in...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/28/2005
What's the point of the Junk E-Mail folder?
I was a member of a speaker panel at a Butler Group 'Email Management Strategy Briefing' in London...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/27/2005
MAPI Mail Merging in Office 2003
If you use Microsoft Outlook 2002 or Outlook 2003 and also have Microsoft Word of the same version...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/27/2005
Black Belt Custom Views in Outlook 2003
My last blog entry showed how you can use the Copy Folder Design feature to clone one folder view to...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/26/2005
Easy folder cloning in Outlook
I routinely customise my Outlook folders so they perform the way I like. I use Outlook features like...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/26/2005
Outlook Mail Profiles solve Toilet Troubles
My brother-in-law, Ric, popped round this evening to help me figure out how to move my toilet 4...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/25/2005
Allister Frost
My name is Allister Frost and I'm a Product Solutions Marketing Manager for Microsoft in the UK. I...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/25/2005
Creating tasks from emails
Now that you've mastered SHIFT-CTRL-V, dear reader, let's step up a gear. You can also create...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/25/2005
Figuring out what you've done and who you did it to in Outlook
So here I am at last. My very own Technet blog. Crumbs, what a responsibility. My regular reader...
Author: Allister_Frost Date: 04/21/2005