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Mastering
Outlook Express
Copyright
© 2002 Annette Ramsey
This
article is by no means the complete works of mastering Outlook
Express. However, these few hints and tips will help you in managing
this email program.
(1) Disable Preview Pane
One
of the criticisms of Outlook Express is that its default view
is set to Preview Pane. This is not considered safe because if
a virus is attached to an email, it will automatically be opened
with the opened email showing in Preview.
To
disable Preview Pane, go to
View
Layout
Uncheck Show Preview Pane
(2) Set up Folders for your email. Say for example you want to
put all the Industry Update newsletters into a separate folder.
Highlight
the Industry Update email Right click and select Move to Folder
A box will come up:
Click on New Folder
Type in name for the New Folder
Then click OK and OK again
Play
around with this so that the folders and your email program suits
you.
(3) Show the Outlook Bar and Folders List
Showing
the Outlook Bar to the left of your emails allows for easy access
to often used folders. Go to:
View
Layout
Check Outlook Bar
While
there, ensure that Folder List is checked as well. This is helpful
if, like me, you have created many folders and folders within
folders. Again, this ensures that everything is within easy reach.
(4) Move selected folders onto the Outlook Bar
Simply
highlight the folder and drag it onto the Outlook Bar.
If
you change your mind, simply right click on the folder and select
Remove from Outlook Bar.
If
you want to change the positions of various folders on the Outlook
Bar, simply select and drag the folder up or down the list.
(5) Maximize the email program.
With
all the folders and Outlook Bar, you will get best use of your
email program if you maximize it.
You
do this the same way you do with Internet Explorer or Netscape.
Go to
Top
right hand corner Click on the middle box - the one that says
either Minimize or Maximize when the cursor is placed over it.
(6) Empty Deleted Items folder regularly
You
can do this manually by going to:
Deleted
Items Folder Right Click:
Select Empty 'Deleted Items' Folder
Of
course you want to make sure you really do want to delete the
email before you do this.
You
can set up Outlook Express to empty the Deleted Items folder each
time the program is closed. Go to:
Tools
Options
Maintenance
Check Empty messages from the 'Deleted Items' folder on exit.
(7) Configure the program to work the way you want it to.
Go
to:
Tools
Options
Click on each and every tab
Check or uncheck options as you choose
Send
yourself an email if need be to test out any changes.
(8) Save space, compress the folders
Some
people have found out the hard way that their email program freezes,
runs out of memory, or simply dies if there are too many emails.
I'm talking thousands of emails.
On
the weekend I reached this level, mainly because I had been forgetting
to empty the Deleted Items folder, but also because of an online
networking event where there was an amazing increase in the number
of emails I receive.
And
the program started playing up.
I
did a couple of things - and I believe I pretty well near saved
the email program from dying on me -
I
turned off incoming messages while I did the following -
* Emptied the 'Deleted Items' folder of its thousands of
email messages
* Compressed the folders to save space (as I want to save a
great many messages as well)
To
Compress to save space, go to:
File
Folder
Select Compact All Folders
Don't
use the email program while it is compressing the folders - should
only take a minute, depending on how many emails you have stored.
There are so many more hints and tips - like backing up your email,
setting filters and redirecting email to select folders automatically,
ensuring you have the latest safety patches from Windows, adding
more email addresses, and so on.
If
you want to know more about how to configure and use your email
program to your best advantage, use the internet to search out
more information. It's all there for you.
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This
article is written by a guest writer. The views and opinions within
this article are those of the author and are not those of Detechnify.com
You
can get details of the writer at the end of the article.
Cheers,
Annette
Ramsey
Copyright © 2002 Annette Ramsey
Annette
Ramsey is an Internet Marketer and Editor of the Industry Update,
a free weekly internet marketing newsletter. To subscribe, send
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