I deleted an Email Folder but I need to find it again. Help! Have you ever deleted an email folder in Microsoft Outlook and then wondered where it went? Maybe you changed your mind after the deletion and went looking for the folder to recover it, but...
Why you should open your Outlook Calendar by default and not your Inbox What does a typical start to your day look like? Perhaps, like many people, you open your inbox to check any emails that have arrived overnight. You start to deal with these emails,...
We all know how important it is to prioritise our work. At work especially, we can be inundated by all the urgent stuff and tend to respond to the endless pressures of the moment. I've always found the Covey Matrix helpful when trying to prioritise...
Prior to the introduction of Microsoft Teams, choosing a mode of communication within a team was relatively easy. Beyond phone calls and face-to-face meetings, email was basically it. We used email to share and discuss documents and information and to communicate with multiple people at...
How to show your Email Folders if they have disappeared from view Occasionally when I been delivering training, I've had someone tell me that they have lost their email folders. Usually they look exasperated and say something like, 'They are just not there anymore…or; "how can...
Have you ever seen an email on your mobile phone and decided to look at it on your PC when you get into the office, only to find that you can't see the email in your Outlook Inbox? You check your phone again and there it...
When I talk to people about prioritising their workload or their time, I almost always use Stephen Covey's Time Management Matrix. It's been around a long time, but I love how it often reveals our inherent tendency to focus on urgent tasks at the expense...
If you use both Outlook tasks and OneNote 2016, you should be aware of a clever way in which you can select any text inside OneNote and have that text automatically appear as a new task inside Outlook. Better still, the new task is synced...
Back in 2013, I was contacted by a writer to provide some input into a feature article about email communication. The good, the bad and then the future of email? What will replace it, etc.? I never heard if the article or my input was...
In the past year, as many of us have been working from home, I've noticed more and more interest from people wanting to learn how to move to digital notetaking using Microsoft OneNote. OneNote is a great tool for taking notes in meetings, including online...