How do you find out which colour is being used for a Font or Fill?
Sometimes I want to use a font or fill colour that is already in use in a document in other places in the document, so I want to find out …
Quickly create a hyperlink in an email
If you often create hyperlinks to a web page, this week’s tip will come in useful. I use this the most in email messages but it works equally well in …
Insert a Screenshot in an MS Office document
I recently had someone email me with a question about one of the Weekly Tips. Helpfully, they included a screenshot so I could see what they were talking about. I …
My favourite tips of 2017
As this will be the last tip of the year I thought I’d highlight some of my favourite tips from 2017. If you joined the list part way through the …
How do you email only the people you have added to an Outlook meeting?
Subscriber Danielle C. asks “How do I add attendees to a meeting that already exists without sending updates to the whole group?” If you add attendees to a meeting you …
After searching for an Outlook email, how do you find which folder it’s in?
Sometimes I go looking for an email and it’s not in the folder where I thought it would be. Maybe I’ve accidentally filed it in some other folder. I do …
How to save an Outlook Contact Group that is attached to an email?
Subscriber Deesha P. asks ‘I had a contact group (distribution list) forwarded to me and I’m trying to save it to my contacts, but no luck’ A Contact Group (or …
More Outlook Search Tips – Searching Calendar and Tasks
We seem to spend most of our time in Outlook working with email and that is where there is likely the most to be gained from using all the Outlook …
More Outlook Search Tips – Change the Scope
Continuing our look at getting the most out of Outlook’s search feature, this week we look at where Outlook searches. In most Outlook systems, search only looks in the current …
More Outlook Search Tips – Recent Searches
Continuing our look at Outlook’s Search feature, I often find myself adding criteria to the search box to whittle down the number of emails the search locates. I find the …