Feb 17, 2012
I’ve gotten quite a few e-mails and comments recently that have made me realize I’d made a mistake about dismissing Quick Steps for MYN in Outlook 2010 too quickly. In an earlier post I had said that I didn’t think there were that many uses for Quick Steps in MYN because most, as applied to MYN scenarios, require more clicks than the equivalent manual actions.
However, in recent notes to me, people have pointed out that the real value of Quick Steps & MYN is when you use them from within an open e-mail. And now that I’ve tried that out, I have to agree, they are extremely useful when applied from within open e-mails. They do save steps in MYN. For example, for things like creating a task both as an attachment or not, and even filing to the processed mail folder, you do save steps when using the Quick Step button at the top of the open e-mail.
In fact, as many have pointed out, using that Quick Step is a useful way to get around the drag-create tasks problem I blogged about the other day.
So again, thanks to all who have turned my head about Quick Steps!
Here is an older link where I show how to use Quick Steps:
http://www.michaellinenberger.com/Outlook2010Introduction.htm#QuickSteps
It includes a link to a YouTube video we made on how to create Quick Steps.
Michael
