Mastering Email: Tips, Tricks, and Add-Ons for Microsoft Outlook and Qualcomm's Eudora

Jan 2
13:52

2024

Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels

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In the digital age, email has become a primary mode of communication. Two popular email programs, Microsoft Outlook and Qualcomm's Eudora, offer a variety of features to enhance your email experience. This article provides a comprehensive guide to some of the best tips, tricks, add-ons, and shortcuts for these two platforms.

Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express: Enhancing Your Email Experience

Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express offer a variety of features to streamline your email management. Here are some tips to help you make the most of these programs:

  • Viewing Email Conversations: To view ongoing email conversations,Mastering Email: Tips, Tricks, and Add-Ons for Microsoft Outlook and Qualcomm's Eudora Articles select a message in your inbox, click on "View", navigate to "Current View", and then click "Group Messages by Conversation". This will organize all messages with that particular person in a neat thread.

  • Virus Protection: Always virus check an attachment before opening it. Consider using an add-on like "Chilton Preview" instead of Outlook's built-in preview pane. This add-on provides a third pane on your Outlook window, allowing you to scroll through entire messages without opening them. It reads the plain text equivalent of HTML messages, protecting you from malicious code in HTML mail. Chilton Preview

  • Adding Email Addresses to Your Address Book: To quickly add email addresses to your Address Book, open any incoming message, right-click on the name you want to add, and then click on "Add to Address Book".

Keyboard Shortcuts for Outlook and Outlook Express

  • Press F3 to perform an advanced find.
  • Ctrl-Q will mark a message as read.
  • Ctrl-K matches the text typed into the TO field with an existing contact.

Useful Outlook Add-Ons

  • ListsNet Tuner
  • AutoReply
  • Email Talks

Qualcomm's Eudora: Streamlining Your Email Management

Qualcomm's Eudora 4.3 offers a variety of features to enhance your email experience. Here are some tips to help you make the most of this program:

  • Scheduling Outgoing Messages: To schedule outgoing messages for later delivery, hold down the Shift key as you click "send" or "queue" on your outgoing message. A box will pop up asking you when you want to send the message. This is a great feature for sending reminders.

  • Transferring Eudora to Another Computer: To move Eudora from one computer to another and save all your old mailboxes and messages, save the .toc and .mbx files and copy them to the same directory in your new computer. The next time you reopen Eudora, all your old messages will be there.

  • Accessing Email from a Remote Location: If you need to access your email from a remote location without Eudora, get a free web email account from Eudora before you go. You'll be able to send and receive email through the browser of any computer with Internet access.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Eudora

  • Ctrl-A selects the entire text of a message.
  • F7 toggles the preview pane on and off.
  • Shift-space bar toggles a message between the read and unread status.

Useful Eudora Add-Ons

  • PureVoice Player-Recorder
  • EasyTranslator Express: available at www.download.com
  • Beginners interactive guide to using Eudora Light

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