Category: Outlook Performance

Covid 19 has brought about many disruptions in the normal work environment. The pandemic has forced many companies to foray into remote working to thrive during the lockdown. The need to work from home has also brought about the risks of employees sending out sensitive and confidential information to unintended…

Do you know that you could increase opens and responses to your sales/marketing emails by as much as 60% simply by sending them that out at the correct time? Unfortunately, it is not always possible to be at the computer to send out the email at the best time BUT……

Did you know that you can get 10-14% more people to open and respond to your email simply by adding their name to the Subject line? Here are some examples of Subject lines with names in them that are likely to get opened. John, have you tried this recipe? Jane,…

Need to send out a large amount of emails with that added sense of importance? Recently many customers have reached out on how to send out merges with Red subject lines and this is a very interesting feature. Now you can do this with EmailMerge. You can send out merges…

Do you find that Outlook is incorrectly sending legitimate emails to your junk mail folder? Here are a few tips to help your junk mail filter work properly. These tips are based on the Safe Senders List. The Safe Senders list is basically a list of email addresses (or domains)…

Studies clearly show that people who do not multi-task can focus for longer periods of time and feel also less stressed. But emails makes it difficult to NOT multi-task, particularly if you get notified each time an email comes in. This post shows you 4 things you need to can…

If you find Outlook almost hanging up on you while you are writing emails, this tip will save you from a lot of frustration (and as a bonus increase your focus and productivity). Does this sound familiar…? You’re replying to an email and then Outlook starts doing something in the…

Do you find yourself turning up at appointments late (or stressfully on time)? The problem may not be related to having too much to do but instead to how you schedule your appointments. The secret to stress-free appointments is what happens before and after the appointment! For me appointments are…

Here’s a tip that may help to get your important (but not fun work done) and still leave you time to do your enjoyable work. The secret is based on structuring this work as if you were back in high school. We all have things that we were created to…

During the recent launch of our newest QuickFile for Outlook addin, we carried out survey’s and also spoke to a few readers and customers personally to find out if they needed help with filing and retrieving emails. This is what I found out… Many users still do NOT have a…

Here’s a super shot quick and easy to hide or show the ribbon in Outlook. This is a useful tip if you want to make better use of your screen space but still use the buttons on the Ribbon too. To hide the Ribbon, simply press CTRL+F1 To show the…

QuickFile makes it easy to find a folder but what do you do if you need to see its subfolders too. Previous versions of QuickFile showed you the folders in a way that let you expand folders to show its subfolders. Here’s how to view subfolders in QuickFile Version 5.…

Folder recommendations in QuickFile are significantly more accurate in QuickFile Version 5. However there may be cases where you want to remove a suggestion (e.g. if you accidentally used a folder). Step by Step Open the QuickFile screen by clicking on QuickFile or Find & Goto on the ribbon. Right…

Here’s a quick tip on how you can save one or more emails outside of Outlook. This is very useful if you want to save your emails on your harddisk in Client folders along with Word files etc. Step-by-step Go to the folder (inside Outlook) that has the emails. Select…