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How to Delay Sending an Email in Outlook
Happy Friday folks! I don’t know what you’re up to today, but my boss is on a boat. So when the outcome of our weekly company Lunch and Learn was a short list of to-do items for him, I knew better than to send him an email. Because, come on, when you’re on a boat …
Read onHow to Find the Name of the Folder an Email is Stored in Outlook
I personally think that search in Outlook is pretty damn good. I usually find what I’m looking for 95% of the time (the other 5% is because the email was archived, deleted long ago, or was a figment of my imagination). Once I spot the email in a list of search results, I often wonder “now …
Read onHow to Have OneNote 2013 Open on Startup
I have Send To OneNote set to automatically start up each time I turn on my computer, which is handy when I want to capture a screen clipping or a create new quick note without having to wait the 30 seconds it takes for the OneNote program to open. I have Outlook 2013 set to …
Read onHow to Find Your User Name on Your PC
If you don’t know your username on your PC, here’s an easy way to find out: To find out your username: Open up Windows Explorer. Place your cursor in the file path field. Delete the “This PC” and replace it with ” C:\Users\”. Now you can see a list of user profiles, and find the …
Read onRestore Image to Original Size in OneNote
My colleague at itgroove Alec McCauley pointed out a quick tip that I had never noticed before. When you take a screenshot or screen clipping using SnagIt and paste it into OneNote from the SnagIt Editor, if the image is wider than the visible OneNote screen area, OneNote will insert a smaller sized image. If you …
Read onLeave a Breadcrumb Trail When You Move or Delete a OneNote Notebook
Today I deleted a OneNote Notebook that was no longer being used. It was sitting in the SharePoint library empty for many months with a hyperlink to the location where the information was now being stored. Around the itgroove office, we consider it a huge faux pas to not take the time to point others to where to find …
Read onMouse and Keyboard Shortcut for Thesaurus in OneNote
While writing a blog post tonight my mind was drawing a blank on another word for actual. Inspiration comes in waves for me, and being on a roll, I did not want to have to stop the flow to go open the internet browser, go to a thesaurus and look up an alternate word online. Too many …
Read onCreate Alert for All Users in a SharePoint Group
Fact: You can’t set up an alert for a SharePoint Group in SharePoint 2010 or SharePoint 2013. And for many that’s a great thing, as they dread the thought of more emails flooding their inboxes. But there are times, especially during the early days of rolling out an implementation or a new feature where notifications …
Read onSharePoint Permissions – What You Cannot Do
During a collaborative consulting session today I walked a SharePoint Site Owner through the steps to edit the page of a Document Library. The purpose was to add a Content Editor web part to the top of the page so she could add a couple sentences of instructions to reduce any confusion her non-technical end users might have. We compared this method to adding Web Parts to …
Read onCopy Text From Picture versus Select Text from Image in OneNote
A fellow member of the Victoria Office 365 Users Group recently shared his excitement at discovering the Optical character recognition (OCR) functionality in Microsoft OneNote. He was particularly excited about the “Copy Text From Picture” function that gives you the ability to copy text from an image or screenshot you’ve pasted onto a Page. It just takes one right …
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