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Have you noticed your inbox becoming more cluttered? Are you using flagged messages to keep track of important messages and everything else gets lost in the noise of your active inbox? Well, you’re not alone, and there’s a rather colorful solution to assist with organizing your emails that transforms how you interact with your inbox! Emails are more than just keeping in contact with your colleagues and vendors, it’s a task manager, documentation hub, and what keeps your overall daily operations functioning. However, without a structured approach to organization, Outlook can quickly become overwhelming, leading to missed deadlines, overlooked messages, and increased stress.

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Tags: Outlook, Microsoft Outlook, small business technology advice., cybersecurity, Tech Tips

 📩 Most employees have seen it. 

That little button in Outlook:
👉 “Report Phishing”
👉 “Report Junk”

During a recent Cybersecurity Town Hall with one of our clients in Boston, someone in the room asked about this button - The question most people haven't asked:

What actually happens when someone clicks it?
And more importantly - is anyone paying attention?

This is worth exploring.

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Tags: Microsoft Outlook, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Have you ever scheduled an in-person meeting or Zoom call and everyone was confused because there was also a link to a Teams Meeting in the Outlook calendar invitation that you didn't intend to be there? 

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Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Teams

We hope you're keeping up with organizing your "Inbox" in Outlook using different folders to group your mail.  You may also want to organize your "Sent Items" folder into different sub-folders.  Perhaps you have some company related emails you want to group or perhaps you want to track your sent items by major projects.  If you add a sub-folder, you may be alarmed to see that all the mail is listed with your name.  As you can see below, my messages in my newly created "TEST FOLDER" folder for sent messages are all listed by who sent the message.  Me!  Not helpful.  I already know who sent them!

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Tags: Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook has a built in feature to process junk mail and send it to a "Junk" folder as a way to control Spam in your inbox.  This is a great feature if you only read mail in one place, but for most users these days, mail is read on multiple platforms - smart phone, tablet, laptop, browser, etc.  This is why we typically recommend filtering Spam in the "cloud" so the mail is filtered BEFORE it gets to your mailbox, and gets cleaned centrally before going to all your devices.

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Tags: eMail, Microsoft Outlook, spam

We routinely attach documents when sending emails, but did you know that you can also attach calendars, other emails, and business cards?

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Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Attach Item

After our last webinar, one of our attendees asked:  "In old versions of Microsoft office, you used to be able to ‘turn on’ short cuts; this essentially allowed you to see, when clicking on an action, say ‘cut’ or ‘copy’ what the short cut key for it was – can I do that in the ribbon?  I have looked but don’t see anything.  I use short cut keys a lot and know a number of them ‘by heart’ but it would be nice to see them in the ribbon too."

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Tags: Keyboard Shortcuts, Microsoft Outlook, Office 2010