Author Archives: Michael Linenberger

June 22, 2015 Ever been running a meeting and noticed that half the participants are reading their Outlook mail on their smartphones? I had the luck of departing the corporate-employment world just as smartphones and laptops were becoming ubiquitous in … Continue reading →

June 21, 2015 Continuing on from my posts about work-life balance, I just read another interesting article in the New York Times, this one about the impact of rude or mean bosses. According to the article, these are bosses who, … Continue reading →

June 19, 2015 If you are like me you read a lot of your e-mail on your smartphone. But what if you want to convert an e-mail you read into a task? Most smartphone mail apps cannot do that (there … Continue reading →

June 16, 2015 One of the primary reasons using Outlook Categories is faster than using lots of topic-named folders is that you can auto-categorize incoming mail very easily using Outlook Rules. These menu-created rules automatically assign categories to incoming e-mail … Continue reading →

June 15, 2015 You may know that I highly recommend using Outlook Categories instead of using multiple Outlook folders when filing mail. Categories take a little time to learn at first, but after that they are very easy to use. … Continue reading →

June 15, 2015 In all my classes I talk about using a single folder instead of using multiple Outlook folders when filing mail. Here’s why: Speed! Single folder filing is much faster both when initially storing mail and when finding … Continue reading →

June 14, 2015 (updated Dec 5 2016) You probably know that you cannot see Outlook Categories on the native iPhone/iPad Mail app (the Mail app delivered with your iOS device). For example, you can’t display a list of mail grouped by … Continue reading →

June 13, 2015 Here is an Outlook tip I suspect half of you already know about, but it you don’t I think you’ll find it quite useful. It’s using the Resend This Message command in Outlook. The scenario to use … Continue reading →

June 8, 2015 We’re well into the first half of June now so it’s time to officially declare summer is here. When I was a kid I used to celebrate the arrival of summer in a big way. It’s when … Continue reading →

May 16, 2015 Last November (2014), Microsoft released a new Mac version of Outlook—one that replaces Outlook 2011 for Mac. While some people are calling this Outlook 2015, or Outlook 15, Microsoft is simply calling it Outlook for Mac, and … Continue reading →