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Quick Productivity Tips For Every Microsoft Outlook User

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Even though Gmail is the most popular email service Outlook remains one of the best email platforms for professional purposes.  This service from Microsoft even comes with a lot of productivity tools packed in it that helps you to save a lot of time. Here are a few tips that can add up to your features of the Outlook.

Outlook Tips You Should Know

Mark messages as read:

This email service will keep the messages as unread if you just open them and delete without moving to the other message, but this will create you a confusion about the messages, so avoid these things change your mail settings and let it mark as read immediately after open the mail.

For this, you need to open File>Options>Mail. Now click the reading pane button under the outlook panes. Here you should make sure that the ‘Mark items as read when viewed in the reading pane’ dialogue box is checked and in the number of seconds box enter 0.

Create new emails with copied text:

If you have something copied on your clipboard from the browser, document, or another email, or from somewhere on your computer and you want to send it as an email to someone, then you just click CTRL + V anywhere and it creates a new email with your copied text as its body.

Turn Off notifications with exceptions:

Completely turning off the email notifications of your Outlook mail will not be a good idea. The email service has a feature where you can turn off the notifications with some exceptions.

You need to go to File>Options>Mail, under the message arrival option check whether all the options are unchecked.

You can even create some rules for receiving notifications from particular important persons. Select the mail from the particular mail id or person and right click it, then select Rule>Create Rule. Here set up the settings as per your requirements. You can even use this option for creating conditions regarding the subject line and the level of importance.

These tips for Microsoft’s mail service will surely help you a lot.

A Simple Guide On How To Use Microsoft OneNote

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Microsoft OneNote is one of the most underrated note taking app. Many have just known it as an application to save to do lists and write down notes, but you can also actually write notes, to do lists, shopping lists with a stylus, and you can also convert your handwritten notes into text and can also organize your recipes collection.

Creating Notes:

The structure of OneNote involves three layers which include Notebooks, Sections, and pages. Once you are done with creating Notebook and sections, you can rename the page by typing in the top left corner of the page. You can then start writing or typing your notes. When you right click on the particular page name you have on the left-hand side of the OneNote, you will get the various options that you can do with the page. You can either choose to have a plain page, or lined page or a page with grid lines.

If your monitor supports using a stylus, I mean if your monitor is a touch screen then you will be provided with the Radial menu which will allow you to choose among the four different pen styles and various colours of pens and sizes of the pen lines.

In case your screen is not a touchscreen, then you will find the paper icon which will have different options which are also OneNote’s more complex.

Camera option which allows you to click pictures and insert them directly into the OneNote page, draw option allows you to draw with your mouse, table option to create your own customized tables. This radial menu is one of the best things in OneNote which gives you easy access to the settings.

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Customization:

There is a big room for customization in Microsoft OneNote which makes it the best application. You can get a lot of customizing options once you right click on the particular section or a page you will get the various options to customize. Under the customization options for the section, you will get colour changing option, there will be about 16 colours to choose from which will change the appearance of the entire application once you select a colour, but the right panel and bottom panel colours will be default and will never change and will be purple always.

You can pin a particular page or section to the start screen which will give quick access to that page or section.

Microsoft OneNote automatically saves the content to SkyDrive which will not give a chance to lose your content. And this also allows you to share the links to your pages with your friends and all.

So this is how you can easily use your OneNote application, hope you like this and start using OneNote and make it your default note-taking app.

 

Good bye, No more Command Prompt in Windows 10

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Every Windows user is familiar with the Command Prompt available in the operating system. Once upon a time time when DOS is the only operating system available, Command Prompt played a crucial role in issuing various commands and getting the results. 

Later Microsoft removed the complete DOS environment and limited the Command Prompt to a shell. Now, coming to the point, Microsoft completely stopped the DOS shell in the latest insider build and replaced it with the most powerful tool called `Power Shell’. 

If you issued cmd command in the run dialog box, instead of executing the command prompt now you will get the Power Shell. So Microsoft brought a major change in the opening system with the latest move. 

At present Microsoft provided a provision to get the Command Prompt back by disabling a setting called ‘Replace Command Prompt with Windows PowerShell in the menu when I right-click the Start button or press Windows key+X’ to Off’  in the personalization settings. 

Actually Power Shell is not new to the Microsoft users. It offers more powerful features to those who use core commands in the operating system. The sophisticated tool is celebrating its 10th anniversary right now. The change will be reflected in the final build of the Windows 10 operating system soon. So get ready to use the Power Shell. 

Do or Die Situation for Microsoft

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Do or Die Situation for Microsoft

Microsoft ruled personal computer world for more than two decades, no doubt about it. But what next? Does the company losing its existence in the technology market? Here is the breif analysis.

Technology means Microsoft

Even a couple of other operating systems existed in the field of technology before Microsoft DOS, and Windows entered into the market, for the regular PC user Windows played a crucial role. Desktop users widely adopted IBM PCs with Microsoft Windows installed on them. Later the momentum shifted to Laptops,

Mobile usage changed the fate of Microsoft

Even though mobile usage started from 2001 with Symbian series 60 and UIQ series operating systems, it triggered to the next level after Android operating arrival in the year 2008. Microsoft has a great chance to compete Android at that time. But major strategic failures caused the company to lose its existence in the smartphone market.

Windows, What next?

Last year Microsoft decided to stop the version numbering after Windows 10 release. Earlier PC users used to wait for the Windows latest versions time to time. But now Windows also lost the craze and curiosity in the PC users. Even though Microsoft releasing periodic updates to the Windows 10 people are least aware of the new changes taken place in the latest updates.

Microsoft has to follow a proper plan to keep the desktop market share it is enjoying right now. Otherwise, nobody thinks about Microsoft.

New technologies

Microsoft is spending more resources on Artificial Intelligence and few other upcoming technologies. But there is also an intense competition from the rivals in this area also. For example, the company is focusing on Cloud services, but there is a strong competition from Amazon web services and other players in cloud technologies. This is the right time for Microsoft to future-proof their ideas. Otherwise, it may be wiped out from the memories of the users.

How to get Windows 10 Anniversary Update

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Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Microsoft released Windows 10 Anniversary Update today as a free update for the existing Windows 10 users.

The company is slowly rolling out the update worldwide. It takes few weeks for you to get the update. If you want to experience the update immediately here is the technique.

Backup data

Before updating Windows 10 Anniversary update, it is wise to backup critical data on your C drive, and other partitions of the hard disk to the cloud.

Check the compatibility

Your computer must have at least 2 GB of RAM to install Windows 10 Anniversary update instead of 1GB for Windows 10 earlier. For 32 bit Windows, 10 users minimum 16 GB of free space on the system partition is required, for 64-bit Windows 10 users minimum 20 GB of free hard disk space is must to install the update.

How to install right now

Automatic Windows Update is the best method to complete the process smoothly. If you can’t wait for another few weeks and if you are familiar with the Windows Media Creation tool the follow the below steps.

1. Download Windows Media Creation Tools

2. Select the appropriate option whether you want to fresh install or upgrade the existing OS. The upgrade is the better choice that keeps the data safe.

3. If you are planning to make a clean installation, Keep your Windows 10 product key handy.