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Tip of the Week: 3 Tips to Turn You Into An Outlook Power User

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Vince Arden

Wednesday, August 30 2017

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Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular email clients in the world, especially for small and medium businesses. The most recent version of Outlook has some cool features to make your life easier. Below are three Outlook life hacks to help you make the most of your tools.

Quickly Access Your Inbox
Are you in a rush? Outlook can be found easily on any computer with just a few keystrokes!

Type:
Type ‘Outlook’ into the Run window and hit enter!

Adding Attachments
Have you been recently working on an Excel or a Word document or even recently saved a PDF or downloaded an image? Outlook pulls your recent documents to offer as an attachment.
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Delete vs. Archive
Deleting a file sends it to the Delete Folder. Delete folders are emptied occasionally and the email in there will be gone.
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Archive goes to the Archive Folder. Archive folder keeps the emails but removes them from your inbox. You can also set emails to auto archive.
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Vince Arden

Vince Arden is the founder and President of Preferred Communication Systems. He is a graduate of DeVry University with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry. In addition to providing leadership in sales, marketing, project management, and service delivery at Preferred, Vince provides Virtual CIO-level services for the 4th-largest Realtor Association in the nation and to an Inc. 500 fastest growing company. He has been interviewed by industry publications like Redmond magazine, CRN News, and Continuum for his expertise related to cloud computing and the managed IT services industry. He also lends his voice as a contributing author for the Cloud Business Review.

His core purpose is to, "Help people achieve their greatest potential in work and L.I.F.E." He passionately works toward making this a reality in every aspect of life, including his areas of expertise, such as thought leadership, ideation, communication, team building, and Servant Leadership. Vince models building strong relationships, both with his team at Preferred and with his clients. He strives to build a network of people he can embolden to work smarter, so that they may ultimately be able to live better.

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