http://www.brighthub.com/office/home.aspxenhttp://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10550.aspxThu, 17 Sep 2009 02:20:51 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10550merylKeep your messages without cluttering your mailbox. Archive Your Email for an Uncluttered Inbox You might be on top of your home office mailbox and keep it well organized. Regardless, you will want to store older messages to conserve storage space. Outlook archives old items to an archive file, deletes expired items or both. A good way to go about ...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/38600.aspxFri, 12 Jun 2009 21:18:57 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:38600nicolelamarcoIt is very possible that your employer is reading not only your work e-mail, but your personal e-mail, as well. Contracts When committing to work at a firm, particularly one of significant size, employees are often asked to sign a contract or even sign off on an employee handbook. Companies may state in this contract or agreement if electronic comm...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10160.aspxThu, 26 Feb 2009 19:36:14 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10160merylSo what makes Outlook 2007 different from 2003 and earlier versions? A lot -- some of it impressive. Microsoft Outlook 2007 acts like one big integrated application instead of separating calendar, contacts, and email. In 1997, Exchange Server 5.5 included Outlook as its e-mail application. Since then, Outlook gained more responsibilities when i...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/23041.aspxThu, 26 Feb 2009 18:49:40 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:23041merylA well-managed email box helps you become a more organized and efficient worker. Whether you use your email for business, personal or both, having an email system makes it easier to find things and manage. Many experts advise having an inbox that has no more than 10 email messages. Like with snail mail, a good way to handle your messages at once is...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/23044.aspxThu, 26 Feb 2009 18:49:14 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:23044merylUse Outlook? Thunderbird? Eudora? Some other email application? You can move all those emails out of them into Gmail. Why? Because you can connect to Gmail from anywhere outside your home office. All you need is a computer and internet connection and Gmail is there for you. Gmail vs Computer Email Client I love Gmail . It's the ...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/23048.aspxThu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:57 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:23048merylEmail subject lines are not only for the person receiving email, but also for you. Do you want to open every email message trying to find a specific email? Better subject lines help you scan your email for what you need when the search tool fails. Bad Subject Lines What do you think when you receive an email with no subject line? For many, they...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10161.aspxThu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:42 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10161merylA quick overview of the interface including the To-Do Bar and the Ribbon, which change how you work with Microsoft Office applications. Outlook 2007 still looks similar to the default Outlook 2003 interface. Outlook 2007 keeps the Navigation Pane, Content Pane and Reading Pane while adding a fourth pane, the To-Do Bar . The To-Do Bar contains an ov...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/20980.aspxThu, 25 Dec 2008 15:13:12 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:20980rdubasThose who work from home may miss some of the conveniences of a corporate email infrastructure, especially around the holidays. Here's the details on out-of-office replies for some popular webmail services. Working from home is great- freedom and no long meetings. However, there are some technology convenience that are sure to be missed. Around...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/reviews/20255.aspxSun, 21 Dec 2008 17:24:06 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:20255rdubasGoogle has been quickly encroaching on the office suite territory held for years by Microsoft Office. Will their new Task feature win over even die-hard Outlook users? Gmail now has a simple task manager. With this new feature, the busy developers over at Google filled a gaping hole in their on-line productivity suite. To be fair, this is more ...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/17386.aspxSun, 30 Nov 2008 17:44:29 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:17386staceytgAll businesses need email. You might have even thought about getting one yourself. Maybe you should. There are many businesses that have their own email. You might have wanted to add this feature to your own website. You just might not know what you need to do to get one and how it will work once you have one. It’s really not as hard as you m...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10538.aspxSat, 11 Oct 2008 15:34:56 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10538merylLearn how to format text, create signatures, use stationery and include internet links. Themes Microsoft Office 2007 introduces themes, which appear in all of the Office applications. You might find a theme represents you or your organization and wish to apply it in all documents including e-mail. Themes do little for a new e-mail message. To see h...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10542.aspxFri, 10 Oct 2008 14:29:52 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10542merylGet things done with a well-organized email box! Task management experts recommend having few email messages in your inbox. It doesn't mean you need to delete them, but to act on them and file them in a folder structure that works for you. You can find the folders in the Navigation Pane under either Personal Folders or Mailbox. You can also acc...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10536.aspxFri, 10 Oct 2008 14:26:30 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10536merylAdd new email accounts in Outlook 2007 using the wizard or doing it manually. Creating an E-mail Account The create a new e-mail account wizard earns a spot as one of the more notable improvements in Outlook 2007. You don't have to do much more than enter an e-mail address and password to set up an account. Some Internet service providers don't mak...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/10162.aspxTue, 07 Oct 2008 20:34:55 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:10162merylLearn the fast and easy way to use e-mail in Outlook 2007. Read E-mail Messages As soon as you open Outlook, the inbox appears. Whether you see new e-mail messages depends on how you have your "Send/Receive" options set. Click "Send/Receive" to download your e-mail messages. The list of e-mail messages appear in the Content Pane...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/5112.aspxFri, 22 Aug 2008 14:20:24 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:5112brianllamaThere are tons of ways to manage your email, including small programs for your cell phone and large server based email systems. Recently, I stumbled upon a great trick for managing your various emails from a home office without any of those things. Email Email Everywhere I am a professional freelance writer and business consultant . I work out of m...http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/3965.aspxWed, 06 Aug 2008 16:10:35 GMTb133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:3965brianllamaIf your home office setup requires you to have multiple email accounts across several systems and sites, managing those accounts can sometimes be a pain. A new solution from Yahoo! owned Zimbra might be the answer. The Business Owner Email System Long after its rivals began offering free IMAP or POP access to their email services, Yahoo! held o...