[Note: This article refers to the desktop version of Outlook, but covers Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, and Outlook 2013. We’ll address Outlook rules in Office 365 (via the web portal interface) in a future article.] According to the Radicati Group, the average number of business emails sent or received per day is 100.5. How can […]
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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 […]
Spanish Version of Vcard Converter
Vcard Converter (an add-in that imports or exports Vcards to and from Outlook) is now available in Spanish. This is what we hope to be the first of many add-ins to be translated to Spanish. Schedule Recurring Email has a new feature that will automatically backup your scheduled emails once a month. This will help […]
Keeping Outlook Running for Long Periods of Time
If you keep Outlook open for long stretches at a time, like say, a week or a month or longer, then you know that this can be difficult because of power outages, updates to the operating system, etc. In addition, sometimes add-ins present a problem in that if they are not carefully managing their memory, […]
Mailtips in Outlook 2010
The Microsoft Outlook Office Team has been posting and previewing some of the changes that are coming with Outlook 2010. There’s come pretty cool stuff coming down the pike! One in particular has us pretty excited – the feature called “MailTips”. Mailtips provides a functionality somewhat similar to our Safeguard Send add-in. We think […]