Quick Tips for week 35 (28 August, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

Sort Notes alphabetically
Ignore stationery fonts
Exclude account from receiving
Embed YouTube videos
Don’t convert drive path to UNC path

     August updates for Outlook 2007 (27 August, 2009)

Several hotfixes have been released for Outlook 2007.

KB973404: Contains a big list of bug fixes including a fix for a printing bug that was reported via the newsgroups.
KB974489: Adds a new “Weekly Agenda Style” print style for the Outlook 2007 Calendar (File-> Page Setup).
KB973936: Fixes an issue where the calendar displays an incorrect date for Jewish Memorial Day.

Note that these hotfixes are not being offered via Microsoft Update. If you want to install any of the above hotfixes, you’ll have to request a download first (free). You can do this via the link at the beginning of the article. Updates that aren’t marked as “global” only apply to that specific language of Outlook; you cannot apply it if your language of Outlook isn’t listed.

     Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2 released (27 August, 2009)

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) has been designed specifically to help meet the challenges of any business and the needs of all the different groups with a stake in the messaging system. Exchange Server 2007 SP2 is a mission-critical communications tool that enables employees to be more productive and access their information anywhere and anytime while providing a messaging system that enables rich, efficient access to e-mail, calendar items, voice mail, and contacts. For the administrator, Exchange Server 2007 SP2 provides advanced protection options against e-mail security threats, such as spam and viruses, as well as the tools to help manage internal compliance and high availability needs. For an overview of the new features that are available in Exchange Server 2007 SP2, see "What’s New in Exchange Server 2007 SP2".

Download: Exchange 2007 Service Pack 2
View: Release Notes for Exchange 2007 SP2

     AutoMail for ListGrabber (27 August, 2009)

AutoMail, a ListGrabber add-on, allows you to send personalized emails to any marketing list (Outlook contacts, excel sheet, .csv, or lists captured using ListGrabber).

AutoMail comes with pre-designed HTML ad layouts that can be edited to suit any audience, allowing you to create and send highly personalized ad messages and newsletters in just a few minutes.

Features

• Includes free ad templates: AutoMail comes with pre-designed, editable HTML email templates, compatible with all major email clients
• Checks Duplicate Emails: AutoMail automatically suppresses duplicate emails from being sent to the selected lists.
• Manages Remove Lists: AutoMail ensures that no one on the remove lists gets an email.
• Imports lists from Excel, Outlook and CSV

     ListGrabber Standard (27 August, 2009)

The Internet has many free sources of leads that you can use to market your product or service. ListGrabber is a powerful sales lead capture tool that allows you to build your own lead or prospect lists from various publicly available sources of free leads on the Internet. You can capture contact lists from online directories (like yellowpages.com, superpages.com, whitepages.com), association websites, membership directories, MLS listings, etc. and enter them into an Excel spreadsheet or any database. Use this lead generation software to find potential customers for your product or services.

This sales and marketing software enables you to:

• Capture name, address, email, phone and fax number, etc of likely prospects or business contacts
• Automatically transfer the captured contacts into an Excel spreadsheet or any other database, and thereby
• Complete your online lead generation in seconds
• Start your cold calling and email/telemarketing campaigns sooner

ListGrabber also captures contact information found in email signatures, spreadsheets and documents. It then transfers these details instantly to their corresponding contact fields in your database. Use our sales and marketing software to import any prospect list into your address book or contact manager (ACT!, Outlook, Excel, GoldMine, etc.)

     AddressGrabber Standard (27 August, 2009)

If you are looking for an effective way to automate capturing contact information from e-mail signatures, web pages, online directories or documents, AddressGrabber is the answer.

AddressGrabber uses its patented contact capture technology to identify contact details such as First Name, Last Name, Company, Address, City , State, Zip, Phone, Fax, e-mail address, web site and transfers them into your contact database, with a single Click!. No more copying and pasting every field of contact information into your database.

Check why AddressGrabber has been the favourite contact capture software of people around the USA and other countries who run small businesses or are in sales.

Main features and benefits:

• Save time in contact capture
• Highly accurate
• We understand many databases
• Detects duplicates

     eMail-Lead Grabber Excel (27 August, 2009)

eMail-Lead Grabber Excel is an email lead processing solution. It automatically extracts lead information from incoming email leads (web forms inquiries and lead purchased from lead vendors) from your Microsoft® Outlook®/ POP3 account, and enters information (name, address, email, phone, etc.) into Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet. It automatically distributes leads to your sales team and sends personalized auto response emails whenever a prospect fills up an inquiry form on your website. eMail-Lead Grabber Excel saves hours spent on manual processing and data entry of email leads.

Features:

• Downloads lead emails from multiple email sources [Pop3, Outlook] and process them into Microsoft® Excel® Worksheet
• Sends personalized auto response emails, enabling immediate follow-up
• Automates the distribution of leads to your sales team
• Saves all email leads as text in a folder for future reference

     eMail-Lead Grabber Business (27 August, 2009)

Automate your email lead processing using eMail-Lead Grabber. It can extract and transfer data from web forms and online leads (including third party leads) to Microsoft® Outlook®/Excel®. It enters all lead information into Outlook®, ready for followup, tracking and analysis. It sends personalized auto-response email & distributes leads among your sales team. eMail-Lead Grabber is the quickest way to capture data from any email, eliminating the need to type or copy and paste data. It can also process data from email attachment. It also works with ACT!, Goldmine and others.

eMail-Lead Grabber enables you to:

• Process your emails in hands off mode.
• Scan emails from web forms & third party sites and enter into different databases.
• Seamlessly parse email lead information into your database
• Set up field scanning mechanisms to scan all types of email:
  - Email Leads
  -Web form submissions
  -Survey Responses
  - Job Resumes
  - Order Entry, Quote requests and many more…

     eGrabber (27 August, 2009)

eGrabber is headquartered in Silicon Valley, USA.  Founded in 1997, eGrabber  is a developer of software products providing solutions for Lead Management and e-Business.

eGrabber tools enable sales and recruiting professionals to quickly capture and process Internet sales leads & resumes. Our solutions increase their daily productivity by helping instantly move prospect information found on web sites, email and other places into where they need it for immediate follow-up. eGrabber products incorporate a patented, easy to use technology that intelligently assists in identifying, routing and merging the lead data directly into CRM, SFA, HRM and other applications – whether they are connected locally or over the Internet.

     Quick Tips for week 34 (21 August, 2009)

This week, the following Quick Tips were posted at HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info;

Find e-mail between specific dates
View today’s RSS feeds only
Windows 7 and Outlook
Unread mail count on logon screen is wrong
Copy folder structure

There are now over 300 tips at MSOutlook.info!