Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used desktop email clients that allows you to read emails, schedule appointments, take notes, manage your contacts all from your desktop. Now if you use Microsoft Office in your business environment it’s most likely that you spend a lot of time using the Outlook email program. While you are using it all the time, you might as well try to get a bit more out of Outlook. Well, Outlook already has enough tools for users, but there are some really cool Microsoft Outlook plugins to take your experience to the next level. We have listed the 5 free Microsoft Outlook plugins that are worth a look. Full article (421 words) »

After our series of top 10 hacks and tricks to better your experience with Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook,  we decided to provide you the best hacks and tricks for Microsoft Office tools. The office programs like word processor, spreadsheets, presentation and email are most frequently used applications than any other application on computer. Well, all of you are not exponents in using the Microsoft Office tools. Moreover, the intricate web of menus, toolbars and buttons gets overwhelming rather than making it user friendly. Even if you are accustomed to MS Office tools, there are still some tips that might save your time and bother. Whether its a new feature in Microsoft Office or an unnoticed productivity tricks, the tips are always handy. Explore our top tricks to make your life easier with Microsoft Office. Take a look at our list of top 10 tricks for Microsoft Office tools.

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For a week now, there was much noise over Microsoft Office 2010 that was finally announced today at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. What's most interesting in this conte is the blow-by-blow game between the tech-giants. It's not been a week since Google released its chrome OS. In the  heat of events, Microsoft has announced that Office would include a free, online version of its four major software, a direct face off with Google’s suite of web-based office applications.

Things had already soured between the two technology superpowers, especially with Microsoft launching its new search engine Bing backed by massive ad campaign aimed at gobbling up greater pie of search market share, especially Google's share. In a bid to take Google head-on Micosoft has adopted the three screen strategy that allows its products to synchronize across the phone, browser, and desktop. Well, the Office 2010 is clearly a reminder of Microsoft's dominance over the Office productivity suite market.  Microsoft has also announced that it would streamline the number of Office editions from eight to five. I'm sure lots of questions about the latest Office suite are boiling in your mind, let's find out the answers straightaway.     Full article (1308 words) »

The launch of App Sync software was Google's most aggressive move challenging Microsoft's stronghold in enterprise market . According Google's claims its app was designed to allow the users to switch to Google Apps while retaining the Microsoft Outlook interface. At the first instance, the odds were in favor of Google's, as the Google Apps are cheaper and easier to run. Things changed overnight, as Microsoft announced on its blog that Google's new Outlook plug-in suffered from serious flaws that could disable the integral Outlook functions.

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With Microsoft on in way to its eight generation Operating System, Windows 2008, and the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 2, the big buzz was still awaiting. Microsoft has come up with the Office 2007 predecessor that is all set for a RTM in early July 2010. Microsoft Office 14, officially named Microsoft Office 2010, is the latest in Office series of productivity suite that will be available in 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) version.

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Just when the speculations about Office 14 was starting to hum in, Microsoft puts forward a decisive disclosure that it will not come before 2010 but there will be a public beta version available for the new and refined exchange server program. The public beta test version of Exchange Server 2010, as the product is called, is the first of a wave of upgrades to Microsoft programs as they prepare their next big release of the entire office suite. Exchange Server can work entirely as an online service, which may attract customers looking to save money on hardware and support for their e-mail and messaging systems. It has enhanced information leakage protection, transcribe voice message et al. So let's look at its features and what more does it have to offer. Full article (933 words) »

There are loads of emails that flock into your account everyday and leaves you with a hell in a handbasket. I always come across people who got stuck with Microsoft's Outlook. Well, in Outlook when the number of contacts climb conversations gets intricate and it's really tough to keep them up to date. I was looking for email productivity tools that could sort out such problems when I came across Xobni. Xobni is a free plug-in available in beta version for Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to organize search and navigate the emails. It adds a completely different set up to the email inbox.
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When Gmail is taking emailing to new heights, Microsoft can't simply wait and watch. The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 comes with sophisticated changes that has added to its features and performance. The new Outlook 2007 has improved upon the earlier versions to incorporate better editing and reading experience. With a new Ribbon user interface, Office Outlook 2007 has not only embraced both the compose and reading experience for all Outlook item types like e-mail, calendar items, contacts, tasks and more. This is my effort to acquaint you with some efficiency-boosting tips and tricks to enhance your skills for handling Office Outlook 2007. Here's the list of top 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Tricks for your convenience.

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How to Send large files (say more than 1GB!) through Microsoft Outlook 2007? Did you ever have a question like this? Here is a solution now.

E-mails have become indispensable for all of us both professionally and personally. There are times when we need to send a time bound document to a certain person and then e-mail is perhaps the best and only generic way. Suppose you have a project and a presentation to send to your boss within an hour and Microsoft Outlook 2007 refuses to send the 1GB file through net. What do you do? Its kindda helpless unless you know about Acrobat.com plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2007. Using this add-in, you send links to files rather than file attachments from within Outlook. Sending links ensures that your recipients can download files from Acrobat.com, regardless of the size or type of attachment. You can send links to files on your computer or to files in your Acrobat.com organizer. You can also insert the URL to your personal ConnectNow meeting room in your e-mail messages or calendar meeting invitations.

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We all want to be unique in our own way. In other words, we all try to leave our signature in whatever there is as ours. Be it our writes or comments or e-mails a signature makes you stand apart because it has your speciality inscribed. There are many online signature making tools. But how do we implement them? Here is a simple way to do it in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

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