We’re all trying to be more efficient as we work from home. It’s important that once you carve out a few minutes of time, to be able to answer as many emails as possible before the next distraction comes along. To be as efficient as possible, wouldn’t it be great if as soon as you […]
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Automatic Updates Turned On – Phase 1
In the last several email newsletters, we’ve been letting you know that we have been working on getting automatic updates back up & running. This is one of our 2020 goals, and we continuing towards reaching it. Previous to today, if you tried to check for updates by clicking on the About button in the […]
Date Display Format Tricks
Save As PDF, Save As PDF Pro, Attachment Save, Attachment Save Pro, Rename Attachments and Quick Text Hotkeys all allow you to specify a date/time format. The add-in provides a drop down list that allows you to select a pre-defined date format. What most people don’t realize is that they can type directly in that […]
How to Use Outlook Rules (A Beginner’s Guide)
What To Do When Outlook Doesn’t Work
No matter how well written add-ins are (and even Outlook itself), there will always be the occasional Outlook problem that doesn’t seem to go away. You can read about how to fix your Outlook problem on the internet, but sometimes the suggestions don’t work for your specific case. Here at Sperry Software we get our […]
How to Print Only the First Page of an Outlook Email
When it comes to printing emails, sometimes it’s only necessary to print the first page of an email, because the rest of the pages are filled with older information that may not be necessary, or perhaps a trailing blank page is always printed for some reason. For printing emails in Outlook one at a time […]
Creating and Testing Rules in Outlook
Last time I wrote about the Timed Email Organizer, when the new automatic reply and auto forward actions were added. Shortly after the article was published, a customer called wanting to know how to create a rule that would move the email to a folder if the To field held a particular address. We filled […]
How We Deal With Junk Mail
Recently a customer asked if we have an add-in that deals with Junk Mail. We don’t have one that directly addresses junk mail because Outlook’s Junk Mail filter is pretty strong so perhaps it’s just not setup right. In general though, Outlook’s Junk Mail feature learns over time so if your Outlook installation is new give […]