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7/17/2020

Weekly tips from the "Tip o' the Week" email distribution inside of Microsoft.

Tip o’ the Week #94 – Have you been Mango'd?

This is another out-of-sequence-because-it’s-topical Tip… normal service will resume soon… I’m glad...

Author: EwanD Date: 11/11/2011

Tip o’ the Week #93 – Ring the changes with Mango

Windows Phone 7.5 – aka Mango – is here! (Find out what’s new). I’m publishing this tip out of...

Author: EwanD Date: 11/04/2011

Tip o’ the Week #71 - Formatting tips for Office apps

In various Office applications, pressing the F4 key will repeat the last command (if possible)....

Author: EwanD Date: 11/04/2011

Tip o' the Week #70 - Windows Phone 7 usage abroad

If you’re planning on taking your Windows Phone to sunnier climes over the autumn/winter, this tip...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/30/2011

Tip o’ the Week #69 – Keep your favourites and Office settings synchronised

We covered using Windows Live Mesh to synchronise OneNote files between computers in ToW #52, but...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/23/2011

Tip o’ the Week #67–Lync Conferencing Tips

An earlier Tip o’ the Week featured “5 Golden Rules” for OCS and Lync conferencing, and those tips...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/16/2011

Tip o’ the Week #65 – SharePoint 2010, a starter for 10

There are many advantages to SharePoint 2010 if you’re coming from 2007, especially from a usability...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/09/2011

Tip o’ the Week #64–Some IE9 tips

This tip was originally written shortly after the release of Internet Explorer 9, however it’s still...

Author: EwanD Date: 09/02/2011

Tip o’ teh Week # 59: Apps on Bing Maps

Another tip from Bing’s Tony Young this week. Remember kids, Bing Maps is not just for...

Author: EwanD Date: 08/26/2011

Tip o' the Week #57 - Using Microsoft Tag on Windows Phone

The “Tag” initiative has been around for a little while, in beta guise initially, then...

Author: EwanD Date: 08/12/2011

Tip o' the Week #52 - OneNote on 3 screens & a cloud

After the first year of ToWs, let’s start the 2nd with a short celebration of a cool feature in...

Author: EwanD Date: 08/05/2011

Tip o' the Week #51 - Five Golden Rules for OCS & Lync

A tip this week concerning best practices for using Enterprise Voice in OCS or Lync for making and...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/29/2011

Tip o’ the Week #48: Stop! Think! Bing!

As well as serving us up a daily delight by way of its home page image, Bing continues to add and...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/22/2011

Tip o' the Week #46 - Reduce your influx of Corporate Spam

We’ve all had unwanted emails from external sources – so-called “Spam”, after the famous Python...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/15/2011

Tip o’ the Week #44 – Making Outlook show only email from external senders

This tip came about after one reader asked if there was any way to highlight email, in Outlook, that...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/08/2011

Tip o’ the Week #40 – monitoring your PC’s innards

Everyone can see their PC slow down inexplicably, but getting to the bottom of why can be tricky. It...

Author: EwanD Date: 07/01/2011

Tip o' the Week #39 - Multi-monitor with Win7

If you sit at a shared desk with a monitor on it, but are content to just use your laptop screen,...

Author: EwanD Date: 06/24/2011

Tip o' the Week #37 - Quickly create a new task

If you’re super-efficient and use Outlook’s tasks functionality a lot, here’s a tip that might help...

Author: EwanD Date: 06/17/2011

Tip o’ the Week #36 – Using bookmarks in long emails

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” ~Thomas...

Author: EwanD Date: 06/10/2011

Tip o’ the Week #31 – the lost art of the .EXE name

As has been mentioned in a couple of earlier ToW’s, it’s often quicker to use the keyboard to do...

Author: EwanD Date: 06/03/2011

Tip o’ the Week #30 – Sending emails from the past

Following on from ToW #9, regarding delaying sending email, this week’s episode was asked for...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/27/2011

Tip o’ the Week #29 – Filtering email to reduce the noise

Anyone who gets lots of email will appreciate the importance of Outlook rules. Most rules run on the...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/20/2011

Tip o' the Week #28 - Windows Key is your friend

Some people love keyboard shortcuts – producivity guru David Allen (not to be confused with...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/13/2011

Tip o’ the Week #26 – multiple time zones in Outlook Calendar

Sometimes you need to create appointments that will make sense when you’re in a different time zone...

Author: EwanD Date: 05/06/2011

Tip o' the Week #24: Invite yourself to others' meetings

Have you ever heard that a meeting is happening, that you feel you should be attending, but weren't...

Author: EwanD Date: 04/17/2011

Tip o’ the Week #23: Viewing Excel sheets side by side

Toni Kent from Microsoft UK’s partner group once again provides the inspiration for this week’s tip....

Author: EwanD Date: 04/01/2011

Tip o’ the Week #22: Sync SharePoint data into Outlook

This week’s tip comes from a reader: over to Microsoft UK’s Rob Orwin… In order...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/25/2011

Tip o’ the Week #20: Outlook date cleverness

Here’s a quick Outlook tip that some long term users may know but might have forgotten. Ever since...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/18/2011

Tip o’ the Week #19: Navigating multi-sheet Excel workbooks

Here’s a quick tip for Excel junkies. If you are using workbooks with many sheets, or where tab...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/11/2011

Tip o’ the Week #18: Resizing pictures in email

Here’s a simple tip that most people probably know, but I wasn’t all that sure it would behave the...

Author: EwanD Date: 03/04/2011

Tip o’ the Week #17: Broadcast PPT to customers & partners

Many Microsoft folks have experienced the joys of scheduling Live Meetings with customers and...

Author: EwanD Date: 02/25/2011

Tip o’ the Week #16: All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?

Even the best of us make common typos – “teh” instead of “the”, “Exchnage” instead of Exchange...

Author: EwanD Date: 02/18/2011

Tip o’ the Week #11: SharePoint alerts

Some of us use RSS, many of us use SharePoint, but all of use email. Did you know that you can...

Author: EwanD Date: 02/11/2011

Tip o’ the Week #10: Navigate Outlook with shortcuts

More Outlook tippery this week. Many of these may be familiar to the “Mouse? Mouse? We don’t need no...

Author: EwanD Date: 02/04/2011

Tip o’ the Week #9: Delay sending email

Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it.But we hae meat, and we can eat,and sae...

Author: EwanD Date: 01/28/2011

Tip o’ the Week #4: Telling others you’re on holiday

An Outlook calendaring tip today, brought to you in plenty of notice of the summer holiday season....

Author: EwanD Date: 01/21/2011

Tip o’ the Week #3: IE8 usage tips

This week, we’re all about Internet Explorer. IE9 will be with us in a while, but in the meantime...

Author: EwanD Date: 01/14/2011

Tip o’ the Week #2: Travel times in Outlook

Another Outlook tip this week. There have been some calls for Microsoft to include a “Travel Time”...

Author: EwanD Date: 01/07/2011

Tip o’ the Week #1– New Mail desktop alerts

In an attempt to resurrect this blog (again… I know, I know…), I’ve decided to repurpose some “Tip...

Author: EwanD Date: 12/31/2010