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Helen Bradley - MS Office Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

I'm a lifestyle journalist and I've been writing about office productivity software for a long time. Here you'll find handy hints, tips, tricks, techniques and tutorials on using software as diverse as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher from Microsoft and other applications that I love. My publishing credits include PC Magazine, Windows XP mag, CNet, PC User mag, SmallbusinessComputing.com, Winplanet and Sydney Morning Herald.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Outlook 2007 - Create a Custom e-mail merge

When you need to email lots of people at a time, such as your business contact list you can do this from inside Outlook.

To do this, first open your Contacts area and select the Contacts to email as a group. You can do this by Control + Clicking on each contact to select them.

Then select Tools > Mail Merge to create the message. Choose Only Selected Contacts and then select whether to create a printed document or to email it and then click Ok to switch to Word to finish the process there.

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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Outlook 2007 Find a Contact Quickly

Wherever you happen to be in Outlook you can easily find a contact.

To do this, look to the Ribbon and locate the text box that contains the words "Search Address Books". Type part of the name in the box and press Enter.

This will locate all matching entries in the Outlook Contact list and display them in a dialog for you.

Choose the person to view and click Ok, their Contact details will then open allowing you to view their details, to email them or to send their details via email.

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