Test comparatif : Outlook vs. Gmail. How to create a hotkey to switch to your open Outlook window. Have you ever wondered how many times per day you check your email? For many of us, it’s far too often… and if every single time you have to click on a little icon in the tray, or find the Outlook button in the taskbar, it can get a little annoying. Instead of that, what I do is assign a hotkey to switch to my already open Outlook window. This is especially helpful for those of us that have at least 37 windows open at any given point… alt-tab is just inefficient at that point. Creating the Shortcut for the Hotkey In order to assign the hotkey, you’ll need to first create a new shortcut in the start menu (or desktop), because the one in the Start menu doesn’t have the right options and the one in the quick launch won’t let you assign a hotkey.
To add one into the start menu, right-click on the Start button and then select “Open” from the menu: Go ahead and assign your hotkey here in the Shortcut key box. Make Outlook Hide When Minimized. How to backup Outlook PST files regularly with Personal Folders. The Outlook PST files stories all your emails, calendar events and tasks. This free tool from Microsoft helps you regularly backup your Outlook pst files to a more safe location automatically.
The Personal Folders file (.pst) of Microsoft Outlook is one of the most important files on your computer that stores offline copies of all your email messages, calendar appointments, contacts, tasks and other Outlook items. [PST = Personal Storage Table] Whether you download emails from Gmail Inbox to Outlook or sync Google Calendar with Outlook Calendar, everything gets saved in a PST file on your hard drive. Though you can create a backup copy of your Outlook .pst files using the Import and Export wizard in Outlook, that’s slightly cumbersome and puts some pressure on your memory since it’s for you to remember the date when you have run the same backup process again. Related: Export Outlook PST mails to Gmail. How to defer email delivery in Microsoft Outlook. How to sync your GCal to Outlook and back automatically. How to export and backup all emails from Outlook to your Gmail a.
How to transfer emails from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail or Yahoo! Mail ? The Outlook emails are inside a PST file. How to export this PST file and import it into your GMail Inbox. Sachin writes – “I have few thousand email messages inside Microsoft Outlook (a pst file) organized in various folders. I know it is possible to download emails from Gmail to Outlook using POP3 or IMAP but is the reverse path possible.” Sachin is looking for a trick to archive all Outlook email messages (and folders) to his online Gmail account for two reasons – one is secure backup and two, he will be able to access his old emails from any computer. Solution: It is quite easy to transfer Outlook emails to your Gmail mailbox. Step 1: Enable IMAP in your Gmail account and then configure Outlook (or Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail) to sync with your Gmail address via IMAP. Step 2: Import your Outlook PST file into a Personal folder that is different from your default Gmail Inbox.
That’s it. How to prevent "Oh No!" after sending emails with Outl. How many times have you sent an email and then realized a few seconds later that your snarky comment was sent to the entire mailing list, or left an embarrassing typo in an email to somebody you were trying to impress? Using the “Defer” rule in outlook, we can setup a rule that essentially pauses all message delivery for a few minutes after you click the Send button, to give you a chance to recover. Select Rules and Alerts from the Tools menu, and then click on the New Rule button. Under “Start from a blank rule”, choose Check messages after sending, and then click Next. Click the Next button again on the “Which conditions do you want to check” screen, and you’ll be prompted with this dialog informing you that the rule will apply to all messages.
On the next screen, check the box for “defer delivery by a number of minutes”, and then click on “a number of” and change the defer minutes to something like 5 minutes, although you can change it to whatever you’d like.