Surely, active users of Outlook appreciate its vast range of features. However, they are pretty well aware of its limitations, too. To overcome these limitations, it is often enough to install a couple of well-integrated third-party add-ins, for instance, MAPILab ones. For you to make the most of your Outlook, we are offering this brief overview of our most useful tools.
How to create a mailing list from existing messages in Outlook
Puzzled by your Outlook not adding existing senders and recipients to the list of Contacts? The bad news is that it’s not supposed to. The good news is that it can be fixed – with the help of MAPILab Add Contacts add-in for Outlook. You can learn about its principal features in this brief overview.
How to use E-mail Follow-Up to send reminders on unreplied messages in Outlook
Receiving feedback on your messages is indispensable for efficient correspondence. However, it often happens that your recipients postpone writing a reply or forget to write one at all. There is no harm in reminding them to give you an answer, but it is something you have to keep in mind or put in your to-do list. Naturally, modern scheduling tools, such as Outlook Tasks or any specialized standalone application, can alarm you to contact your recipient again if you create a respective task when you send the initial letter.
PDF attachments and message body text in Mail Merge Toolkit for Outlook
We received recently several requests from our users, about sending messages as PDF attachments in Mail Merge Toolkit, and typing the text for the message body – so, we will answer them in our blog for all our customers who are interested in using this efficient feature.
How to select Outlook account for messages automatically
Managing two Outlook accounts at the same time can be tricky – especially, if you need to be careful about what account you send new messages from. Thanks to Message Autofill tool, which is included in MAPILab Toolbox, you can create rules for an automatic choice of account based on the folder you are working with. No more awkward mix-ups and a better work-life balance!
How to unblock attachment blocked in Outlook
Has your Outlook recently blocked an attachment from an important sender who you felt most uncomfortable getting back to? Is it a persistent issue? If you deal with a lot of attached files in your correspondence, you might have noticed that Outlook blocks items based on their file type. And if you have a lot of your attachments blocked, you might have already been looking for relevant Outlook settings – without any apparent result.
How to customize the subject line in Mail Merge Toolkit for Outlook
Once you have used the acclaimed Word Mail Merge feature over the course of your mailing duties, whether on a daily basis or infrequently – there is no turning back. Literally no other out-of-the-box Microsoft Office tool offers you so many benefits for mass mailing with so little mouse-clicking involved and with such vast improvement of almost every aspect of the resulting letters. Its renowned personalization possibilities utilize the so-called “macros” (a placeholder word that exists only to be replaced with an actual recipient-specific value from a data-source). The product’s versatility and overall ease of use has secured it a firm place among the top-flight productivity tools for professionals in the field.
How to schedule recurring emails in Outlook 2013
There is an astonishing number of ways one can use Microsoft Outlook for performing daily tasks, whether at home or at the office. From the developer’s side, great care must be taken to made sure that the tool is as convenient and user-friendly as possible, going far beyond improving user interface in a new major edition and adding, – for instance, automation scripts (known as configurable “Rules”) to broaden the scope of time-saving scenarios.
However, despite the considerable measures taken to enrich Office applications with such features, the increasing complexity of daily tasks makes it inevitable that a new scenario – not covered by Office automation features – turns up every once in a while.
How to install, manage or uninstall Outlook add-ins
Outlook Add-ins management – introduction
For an impressively long time, the Microsoft Office suit has been the benchmark in productivity software for its versatility, popularity, practicality, and sheer number of features – so many that its reign as the de-facto standard of about two decades does not seem to be under threat at all.
But even the broadest list of features can leave specialized users desiring for more.
Since the inception of its renowned suite, Microsoft has been working on addressing such niches – leading to the addition
of so-called “add-ins” (also known as “add-ons”, “plug-ins”, and other variations of the word).
How to print selected messages in Outlook
How often do you print your messages from your Outlook e-mail client ? You certainly know, that Microsoft Office Outlook provides opportunities to print selected message, or several ones, and even attached files – but limitations are critical: first of all, attachments can be printed to the default printer only; and though you can select printer for your messages, merely manually selected mails will be sent to your printer. If you need to print messages received within specific dates, Outlook regular printing option is not enough for that.
