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Outlook

Remove attachments in Outlook

June 6, 2008

You can already remove attachments in Outlook—but only one at a time, which gets to be a big waste of time.
Outlook Attachment Remover (clever name, huh?) does just what it says, but in addition to removing attachments from one message at a time, you can scour an entire folder clean. This works well if you [...]

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Managing contacts

April 15, 2008

For quite a while now, I have been using Plaxo to manage my contacts. The great advantage of Plaxo is that it syncs with a variety of software—I use it with Outlook (two different copies), Thunderbird (ditto), and Gmail. The mobile version of Plaxo is also fast enough that you can access it even from [...]

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Google Calendar sync for Outlook just released

March 6, 2008

Here comes something I have been wanting for a long time: an easy way to sync my Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar so that I can share my schedule with my wife. Oh, and co-counsel, I suppose.
Since I am always changing from one program to another, it also makes it easier to track my calendar [...]

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Xobni may be the most useful Outlook plug-in yet

January 10, 2008

Lifehacker posted yesterday about Xobni, a new Outlook productivity plug-in. Xobni runs as a sort of sidebar, and displays information about the people who e-mail you. Among other things, it shows related contacts, e-mails, and files. I downloaded the beta version and started using it this morning, and there are two features in particular that [...]

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TimeBridge simplifies scheduling meetings

January 9, 2008

One of the biggest pains about managing a law practice is scheduling meeting, conferences, and other get-togethers with clients, opposing parties and attorneys, etc., all of whom have crowded calendars. TimeBridge goes a long way toward simplifying the process of setting meetings.
Here’s how it works: pick a few possible meeting times, and enter the e-mail [...]

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Managing attachments in Outlook

April 18, 2007

One of the problems with using Outlook to manage e-mail is that there is no easy way to manage attachments. Outlook is not a good place to store attachments. Outlook basically rolls all your information–e-mails, attachments, tasks, appointments, and contacts, into one .pst file. So the more attachments, the more data Outlook has to manage, [...]

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Outlook’s Activities tab

April 4, 2007

I have mentioned the Activities tab in Outlook several times, but I don’t think I have explained exactly how to get to it. The Activities exists as a tab in Outlook 2000-2003, and as a button in Outlook 2007. Open up any contact and look just under the task bar and menu, and you should [...]

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Envelopes in Outlook

February 27, 2007

One of Outlook’s most astonishing omissions–which is in no way remedied in version 2007–is the lack of a way to go directly from a contact to a printable envelope. My workaround is pretty good, although not as pretty as I would like. I just create a folder called ‘Envelopes’ inside my My Documents/Business Files directory [...]

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Blogs about Outlook

February 9, 2007

Since I have started using Outlook as my personal information manager (PIM), I have found a few helpful blogs as I dig in and coax the functionality I need out of a program not specifically targeted at lawyers.
These blogs are each part of MSDN, the Miscrosoft Developers’ Network, and the bloggers are therefore folks with [...]

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Use Outlook as a case/matter-based organizer

February 9, 2007

Outlook is, by default, set up to organize your life by contact. The “activities” tab (or button, if you have upgraded to 2007), connects you to all the tasks, appointments, and contacts associated with a particular contact. This works well in some worlds, but not so well for law offices, where you really want to [...]

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