Microsoft Outlook, the industry standard for business email, calendars, and contacts, is where most modern workers begin and end their day. There are millions of different ways to speed up the program. We've compiled a list of our 5 favorite productivity hacks and tricks for making the most of this critical program. 1. Sort your emails into folders. This is the obvious first step if you want to streamline your
@Mentions is the way to get someone's attention in an email message or a meeting invite. We show you how easy it is to use the @ symbol directly in your Outlook. @Mentions work in Outlook in much the same way as they do everywhere else you’ve used them. Type an “@” symbol in the body of an email or calendar invite and then start typing a name and any
Outlook users have been asking for the ability to sync email signatures across all of their devices for years, something Microsoft revealed that it is working on back in September 2019. Writing and replying to emails in Outlook may soon be a little easier. Microsoft is working on the new Signature cloud settings to ensure a consistent user experience when you access Outlook for Windows on any of your PCs.
Let people know who you are and how to reach you An email signature is a nice way to end an email message because it gives the recipient more information about who you are and how you can be reached. In Outlook, you can create one or more personalized signatures for your email messages. Your signature can include text, images, your electronic business card, a logo, or even an image
Animated GIF support—or the lack thereof—in Microsoft Outlook has long been a thorn in the sides of email marketers. A favorite of email geeks and subscribers alike, animated GIFs allow for movement and excitement in an otherwise static medium. But desktop Outlook users have always been left in the dark when it comes to animated GIFs. That is until now. The team at Microsoft announced that desktop Outlook will be
Source: office.com Different look When you use your Outlook now, you will probably notice that the ribbon looks different. This is because Microsoft updated their icons recently. Easier to see Crisp, bold lines and high-contrast colors make the office icons easier to see at a glance. Never pixelated The new Office icons scale to any device, so they always look their best. Familiar icons on all your devices The new
Last year, Microsoft released Outlook.com beta to bring a faster, smarter, and more personalized inbox. Now the next phase is ready and rolling out the new Mail experience to all Outlook.com users. Read more about some of the new improvement experiences here: New look for Mail All Outlook.com users now get the benefits of a faster email experience, a smarter inbox, and better personalization. In addition to features we announced when the beta began,
Microsoft has been slowly adding more email intelligence to its Cortana digital assistant, but it has resisted integrating it directly into Outlook mobile. That’s about to change, soon. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s Outlook plans tell The Verge that the company is currently testing Cortana within Outlook on iOS and Android. The Cortana integration will allow users of the popular mobile email client to listen to and respond to emails with their voice. This will
If your organization uses Exchange and Outlook, consider enabling MailTips! It’s quite handy and can be a big help.The MailTips bar (a yellow bar across the top of your email draft) is contextual and can pop up in different situations, including: If you select “Reply All” by accident If you type “please find attached” or something similar and don’t actually attach anything Responding to someone with an Out-Of-Office message up
Making your email experience as fast as possible is a goal shared across the Outlook.com team—from product designers to storage architects. Some of that work happens in the UI—an example of this is the significantly speedier web experience we introduced in the new Outlook.com beta. Other work involves the way we operate our networks and datacenters. A key part of keeping performance snappy is to store your data in a region
