Office 2010

How to use Outlook as a RSS reader

July 23, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 9 Comments

There are lot of RSS readers available but if you have already installed Microsoft Outlook (Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007) then you can use that as a RSS reader. Listed below are the steps to add and read RSS feeds In Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007

In Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010, Click the File menu –> Info and click on the Account Settings

In Outlook 2007, Click the Tools menu and select Account Settings

Navigate to RSS feeds tab and click on New link

Enter the RSS feed of a blog or a website. In this example, I am going to enter this tech blog RSS feed.

Click on the Add button to add the RSS feed. The following RSS Feed Options dialog box would be displayed and if you want to change the delivery location of the RSS feed then click on the Change Folder button and specify the desired location. Click Ok to confirm the changes.

Navigate to RSS Feed delivery location, this would display the RSS feeds from the configured tech blog

How to share RSS feeds in Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007

If you want to quickly mail the configured RSS feed to your email contacts then you can follow the below mentioned steps.

You can share the feed using the Share This Feed option available as part of Context menu or using Office Ribbon

Context menu – Right click on the any one feed post and select Share This feed option from the menu list.

Office Ribbon – Select the feed that you want to share then navigate to RSS section under Home menu and click the Share This Feed option.

This would launch the following Share RSS Feed window where you can enter the recipients email address and email them the feed details.

Also See: How to configure RSS feeds from YouTube channel in Outlook 2013

How to Insert, Delete, Customize Comments in Excel

July 22, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 8 Comments

This tutorial provides information on the comment feature available in Excel 2013 & Excel 2010. The following will be covered as part of this tutorial.

How to insert comment
Customize the comment box
Navigate between Comments
Delete Comment

How to insert comment

Excel allows users to insert comment using the options available as part of the Review menu. But if you want to quickly insert then right click on the cell and select Insert Comment from the listed menus.

Customize Comment

A typical comment box in Excel is as shown below.

In order to change the name that appears on the Comment box, click on the File menu then the Option link then in the General tab, navigate to Personalize your copy if Microsoft Office and enter your desired name in the User name box. Click OK button to save the changes. Now the entered name will appear when you Insert new Comments.

Similarly if you want to change the Font Style used in Comment box then select then right click on the Comment box and select Format Comment menu option.

The Format Comment window allows you change the Comments Font Style.

Navigate between Comments

If you have more than one comment inserted in the Excel worksheet and you want to navigate between the comments then you can use the menu options available as part of the Comment section under Review menu. The list option includes Show All Comments, Previous and Next.

Delete Comment

A Comment can be quickly deleted are hidden by right clicking on the cell and selecting the required menu option. You can also use the menu option available as part of the Comments section under Review menu.

By this way you can Insert, customise, navigate and delete comments in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

How to export rules from Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010

July 22, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 allow users to create rules based on the sender, recipients or conversation of the topic message and move mail to different folder. If you have created lot of rules and want to take a backup or copy these rules to another PC then you can use the Export Rules options.

In the Home menu, navigate to move section and the click the down arrow below Rules menu option.

Select Manage Rules & Alerts option form the list of available menus.

In the Rules and Alerts window, click on Options

The Rules Options window will displayed as shown below. To export the rules click on Export Rules button

In Save Exported Rules as dialog box, specify the File name and click on Save button. This would now export all the Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 rules in to a Rules Wizard rules (.rwz) file.

How to turn off the reading pane in Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010

July 21, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010 have reading pane which displays the email details when we browse through the messages. This reading pane can be positioned either to the right or bottom of the email list.

A Sample message displayed in Reading Pane is shown below

If you want to turn off the reading pane using the Options available as part of View menu. Navigate to View menu then to the Layout section.

In the Layout section, click the down arrow available below the Reading Pane and select Off from the list of available menus.

By this way you can hide the reading pane in Outlook 2010.

Video demo – Turn off reading pane in Outlook 2013 & Outlook 2010

How to turn off display of screen tips in PowerPoint 2013 & 2010

July 20, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

PowerPoint 2013 and 2010 displays screen tips along with feature description when we hover the mouse over the menu items. By default screen tip feature is enabled in PowerPoint but if you do not want this extra information to be displayed then you can turn off using PowerPoint options.

Click File menu and then Options link

In PowerPoint Options under General tab, navigate to User Interface options.

Set the value for ScreenTip style dropdown to Don’t show ScreenTips and click OK to confirm and save the changes. This would disable the display of screen tips for all menu items in PowerPoint.

Auto launch Outlook at Windows Startup

July 19, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 3 Comments

Lot of office users would like to start their day by reading their emails. Configuring Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 to automatically launch at Windows startup would definitely benefit these users. This can be done by adding Outlook to the Startup option available as part of the Start Menu.

This requires the following two steps

Creating a Outlook application shortcut. For creating Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 shortcut check out the article on Windows Desktop shortcut for Office 2010 application.

Copying Outlook shortcut to Windows startup folder.

Right click on the Start button and select Explore from the menu list.

Expand the Start Menu folder in the explorer window then navigate to the Startup folder and copy Outlook 2010 shortcut file to Startup folder.

Now this would start Outlook 2010 during Windows Startup.Demo Video – Auto launch Outlook 2010 on Windows Shortcut

Access your personal website in Outlook

July 13, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 1 Comment

Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 allows user to configure their personal website or a blog on Outlook folder. This feature would help the users to keep track of things on their personal website or blog while accessing Outlook. To set your website for a Outlook folder, right click on the folder where you want to configure the website and select properties from the list of available menus.

This would launch the following folder properties window. In folder properties window, navigate to Home Page tab.

Enter the your blog or website URL in the Address field and if you want the folder to always display this website then mark the checkbox with label as Show home page by default for this folder. Click on the OK button to confirm and save the changes. Now on accessing the folder would display your configured homepage.

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