The Productivity Hub
Outlook Rules That Rule: Autoreplies done two ways
Ever wished you could automatically send replies to people who write to you or a specific mailing...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/10/2009
Outlook Rules That Rule: Automatically flag messages for follow-up
Last week I wrote a post about email subject lines. One of the tips was to use a word to indicate to...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/09/2009
Access your Hotmail in Outlook
Ever want to do a quick check of your personal, web-based e-mail before heading out for the weekend?...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/06/2009
Favorite Outlook Time Savers
Posts about organizing email are always popular, so I thought I’d give you three Outlook tips...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/05/2009
Email: Writing good subject lines
Your e-mail subject line can be more important than the message itself. I receive hundreds of...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/04/2009
Box placement made easy in PowerPoint
Have you ever struggled with aligning images and textboxes in PowerPoint? Here's a handy tip for...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/03/2009
Send and receive Twitter updates via Outlook
If you're an active Twitter user, this next tip is OSSM!* You probably can't find enough places to...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/02/2009
Illustrate your Office documents with screen captures
You really don't need a fancy image editing suite to get good screen captures and add them to your...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/29/2009
Create Outlook templates for standardized e-mails
If you regularly send the same or similar mails such as a formatted report (say, a weekly team...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/28/2009
Meetings 101: Live Meeting Recording
The Live Meeting topic got so many hits that I think it’s worthwhile to spend a little more...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/27/2009
Windows 7 Content Available!
If your company has the Productivity Hub installed, you can download end-user training content for...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/26/2009
Clear your personal details from Office documents
If you're posting a Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document to a Web site for download, you probably...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/23/2009
Help get rid of spam with Outlook rules
(Interrupting the Meetings 101 posts for a short side trip into rules). Outlook has built-in Junk...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/22/2009
Meetings 101: Live Meeting Tips
Live Meeting can change the way you do business – it helps you feel more connected than just...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/21/2009
Meetings 101: Agendas and Meeting Workspaces
Agendas are important. Why? Number one, they help you keep on track. Number two, they alert people...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/20/2009
Meetings 101: Prepare
I go to many, many, many meetings. They vary in usefulness. The best ones are when (if I’m the...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/19/2009
Meetings 101
I have to rush. I have just a few minutes to write this post. My day has been packed solid with...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/16/2009
Collaborate with difficult people the Crabby way
If you haven't read any Crabby Office Lady articles or posts, you really should. I’m going to...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/15/2009
Excel - Fill in cells faster with the double-click trick
Once upon a time, a coworker and I were working on an Excel spreadsheet together when he noticed...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/13/2009
Inbox Boot camp Day 5: Reuse text in Outlook messages and documents
The Productivity Hub is proving to be very popular lately. I find myself giving the same answers to...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/08/2009
Inbox bootcamp Day 4: Pulling teeth and emails
I’m working from home today to take care of my husband – he just had some wisdom teeth...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/07/2009
Inbox Boot camp Day 3: Turn critical mails into actions
Yesterday, we looked at cleaning out your Inbox with advanced rules. Today, we'll see how you can...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/06/2009
Inbox Boot camp Day 2: Advanced rules
In the post Boot camp Day1, I wrote about creating rules by starting with a message. Today I'll look...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/05/2009
Inbox Bootcamp Day 1: Rules
I’ve posted a few times already about ways to manage your inbox. It’s been such a popular subject –...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/02/2009
Use Smart Tags to collaborate with colleagues - right from your documents
I am sitting in training where I just learned the coolest thing. Our Unified Communications product...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/01/2009
A different view of your inbox
How messy is your inbox? Is it stuffed full of messages about projects long finished and donuts in...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 10/01/2009
Getting Line Spacing Under Control
One of the most noticeable changes in Word 2007, aside from the Ribbon, is what it does to line...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/30/2009
Delay that mail!
Just last week, I was clicking the Send button on an e-mail in Outlook when I thought to myself,...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/29/2009
Transpose your columns and rows in Excel
Have you ever set up a giant spreadsheet and entered all the data and then said to yourself...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/28/2009
E-mail on Your Schedule
What happens when you get an e-mail message? Do you drop everything to respond to it? Make this your...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/23/2009
Change your tabs in Word
The default, every-half-inch tab stops in Word 2007 are fine for most people. But maybe you're not...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/22/2009
Outlook Shortcut
I was just chatting with one of my co-workers, the one I call Queen of Data. She told me about her...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/18/2009
Change the default font in Word
If you need to have your documents appear with a different default font, and you don’t want to...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/17/2009
New Hub content ready!
If you have the Productivity Hub installed in your environment; you can now download a new content...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 09/15/2009
Quickly Clean Out Your Inbox
What’s your biggest workplace challenge? Email, right? (Okay, besides the co-worker who pops...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 06/05/2009
No more folder obsession
Many of us ‘live’ in our inboxes. Some of us obsessively meticulously organize our mail using nested...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 02/16/2009
Find your document quickly
Today, I'm very grateful for technology. I'm sitting in my home office because there is way too much...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 12/22/2008
I agreed to do what?
Few things in life are worse than agreeing to do something at one meeting and then completely...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 12/12/2008
Productivity defined
Productivity. That word is thrown around more than a tennis ball at Wimbledon. But what does it...
Author: Suzanne100 Date: 11/11/2008