Do you find yourself wading through folders in your Inbox to try
and find that one email you received months ago? You know you
have it piled or filed somewhere but you can’t seem to find it, just
when you need it.
Use the advanced search features in Outlook to ease the pain of
searching through your Inbox.
In Outlook, click the Search This Folder box:
Notice that the ribbon adds the Search tab:
In the Search tab, you can define many different criteria for searching. You can search within a folder or refine your search further to look for mails from a specific person or even a specific subject. A combination of search criteria helps to find the desired results much faster.
Here is an example: Holly, the Sales Associate, sent details about the Portland store opening to your team, Mac Office, some time ago. Your manager inadvertently deletes that email. He wants the store opening details, and now you need to perform this herculean task of finding Holly’s email and forward it to your manager. Watch this video on how to make the search process a breeze.
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Hi Everyone, Since we published the Office for Mac and Lion blog last week, we’ve received several great comments and questions, which I want to address. First, today we released an update to Communicator for Mac that fixes the “crash issue” on Lion. It will come through Microsoft AutoUpdate in the next day or so. [...]
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Thanks to my vacation planning with Word, I made it safely to London. Now, my two concerns are enjoying the sights & my vacation but also staying on budget. Excel PivotTables are a great tool to help me do just that in a snap. During my trip, I record my daily expenses in a list. [...]
It’s summer now! I plan to visit the United Kingdom and decided to use Office for Mac as my trip planner. Before the trip, I booked flights, train tickets, hotels, and tours and received all the confirmations in email. Now how was I going to keep all this information organized and decrease my chances of [...]
Don’t want to show your hand all at once when making your points in a PowerPoint presentation? Try animating each bullet point one at a time. You can make text fly in, float in, or bounce in one line at a time —or just sedately appear. In PowerPoint for Mac 2011, you can do it [...]
