Lawyers Right Hand » MS Outlook http://www.lawyersrighthand.com Tutorials, tips on career, excellence and work/life balance for legal secretaries Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MS Outlook Drag and Drop files like PDF, Word documents, text files, tiffs, and even URLs http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls.htm#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:05:06 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=110

Apologies if everyone but me already knew this, but I just had to share.

I recently discovered that I can drag and drop just about anything into my Outlook mail folders.

I used to regularly scan

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]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/ms-outlook-drag-and-drop-files-like-pdf-word-documents-text-files-tiffs-and-even-urls.htm/feed 0 Sending the wrong email message (thanks, AutoComplete) http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/sending-the-wrong-email-message-thanks-autocomplete.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/sending-the-wrong-email-message-thanks-autocomplete.htm#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:33:47 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=114 Admit it. At some point, you have sent an e-mail to the wrong recipient. You sent a copy of an order to Joe Rosencrantz rather than Joe Guildenstern. Another gotcha!, courtesy of AutoComplete.

Jennifer J. Rose (sorry, only e. e.…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/sending-the-wrong-email-message-thanks-autocomplete.htm/feed 0 Make the most of Microsoft Outlook http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/make-the-most-of-microsoft-outlook.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/make-the-most-of-microsoft-outlook.htm#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:15:23 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=31 http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/make-the-most-of-microsoft-outlook.htm/feed 0 Microsoft Outlook: Make those templates available in a flash http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-outlook-make-those-templates-available-in-a-flash.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-outlook-make-those-templates-available-in-a-flash.htm#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:31:43 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=19 http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-outlook-make-those-templates-available-in-a-flash.htm/feed 0 Microsoft Outlook: two kinds of templates for sending repetitive e-mails http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-outlook-two-kinds-of-templates-for-sending-repetitive-e-mails.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-outlook-two-kinds-of-templates-for-sending-repetitive-e-mails.htm#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:56:37 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=117 A while back, I found that I was sending the same conference call setup e-mail several times a month — sometimes several times a week. Pretty tiresome. So I began looking for ways to streamline. My first innovation was to…

]]> http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/microsoft-outlook-two-kinds-of-templates-for-sending-repetitive-e-mails.htm/feed 2 Docketing with Outlook 2003 part 1: Let Microsoft Outlook calculate dates for you http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/docketing-with-outlook-2003-part-1-let-microsoft-outlook-calculate-dates-for-you.htm http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/docketing-with-outlook-2003-part-1-let-microsoft-outlook-calculate-dates-for-you.htm#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:13:10 +0000 admin http://www.lawyersrighthand.com/?p=23 Hardly anyone — not even Google, according to the searches I did — knows Outlook can calculate dates. But the feature is a godsend for docketing, and one every legal secretary should know about.

This tip is for Microsoft Outlook…

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The days of one secretary/one lawyer are pretty much behind us. Nowadays, two, three, and even four secretaries per lawyer are the norm. So how do you keep up with all those deadlines, meetings, filing and

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