Spell check is a very useful tool that is available in word processing documents, on phones, and almost any device where you need to do a lot of typing. It’s easy to make spelling mistakes, and not everyone knows how to spell every word that they might need to write. One area where you might […]

Outlook 2013 has a helpful setting where it allows you to specify the hours at which you are at work. Once these hours are set you will be able to view the Work Week and Week views in the Calendar section of Outlook 2013 with grayed out blocks for when you aren’t scheduled to be […]

Outlook 2013 is able to show pictures of your contacts if a picture has been set for that contact. This can be a helpful way for you to identify a sender that you may have seen around the office, but don’t know by name. However, you might find that you don’t like seeing these pictures […]

When you are quickly scanning through your Outlook inbox, you may not be interested in reading every message that you see. Some emails can easily be only a line or two in length, so it’s helpful that Outlook can display a small part of each email message, often allowing you to read an entire email […]

The calendar section in Microsoft Outlook 2013 can show weather information. This is beneficial for people that want access to that information when they are using their Outlook calendar but, depending upon your own usage and preferences, it might be unnecessary or distracting. Fortunately you have the ability to modify most of the settings and […]

There’s a handy interaction in Microsoft Outlook 2013 where you can receive meeting requests in your Inbox, click on them, choose an option, then Outlook will automatically update your calendar as needed. If you rely entirely on the Outlook calendar to help you with scheduling then this might be acceptable, but it’s entirely possible that […]

Have you noticed that you sometimes find old emails, contacts and files in your Outlook Deleted items folder? Occasionally this is helpful because you wound up needing something that you had intended to delete, but it can be problematic if you start to run into Outlook file size issues, or if you thought you had […]

Are you getting a lot of spam emails from a particular email account, and Outlook doesn’t seem to be processing it as junk? One way to force the issue is by adding that email address to your Blocked Senders list. This is a filter inside of Outlook where you can add a particular email address […]

The Sent Items folder in Outlook 2013 is where the program saves the emails that you write. This provides a convenient place for you to read those messages again in the future, or to locate an email that you sent so that it can be forwarded to an additional contact. But the nature of your […]

The BCC field is an important part of the email environment. It allows you to copy additional people on the messages you send, but it removes them from any future Reply Alls, and the other recipients of the email message won’t be able to see that the BCC’d individual has received a copy of the […]