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View Article  Delay Sending Email
I've been using Outlook for over 15 years, and until today I've never used the "Delay Sending Email" feature.  In fact the only uses I've seen suggested for it involve trying to pretend you were in front of your PC, when really you're off having fun elsewhere.

Then today I found this idea at Suite101.com

Have you ever hit 'Send' and at the same moment realised you forgot to include some information or an attachment?

Outlook (not Outlook Express) will allow you to set up a Mail rule to delay messages for whatever time period you choose.  This gives your brain a chance to catch up with your sending reflex and stop the message before it leaves your outbox.

* Click TOOLS, ==> Rules & Alerts.
* Click on New Rule ==> Start from a blank rule 
* Select 'Check message after sending ==> Next.
* Select 'On this machine only (for Exchange users)==> Next,
* Check 'Defer delivery by a number of minutes'.
* In the lower panel Click 'A number of'
* Set the counter to 1
* Click on OK ==>  Finish.

Now messages will hang around in your outbox for a minute before being sent. If you're going to remember the missing info, or attachment it will usually happen in that minute...


View Article  Work from an empty inbox!
This has been said before many times and in many ways, but its worth reminding yourself  every now and then...:

When you see a requested action in an email, don't do it immediately. It might be one of the least important things for you to do that day. Instead, immediately identify what the action is and put the email in a task folder. Change the title so that it states what you need to do, and put a due date on it and a priority level. You can do that in 15 or 20 seconds. Then you move right on to the next email. Now you'll get through your to-do email remarkably fast. Drag all of your other emails into a process folder, so you now have an empty inbox, which is a really nice feeling. The next thing you do is go to your task list and ask, What are the most important things I need to do today That's the stuff that would keep you from going home at the end of the day.

Michael Linenberger: Liberate tasks from your inbox | 43 Folders

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View Article  Create PDF files for Free
Adobe's PDF is the de-facto standard for sending non editable documents, because everyone has or can get a free PDF reader.

But creating them is a different matter.  Adobe want you to pay US$49 for their utility to create PDF files. DONT do it! 

Adobe Acrobat Professional sucks.  Really.

Its as big and bloated as anything Microsoft have produced.
    It continues to create folders  (My Ebooks) that 99% of people will never use.
    It adds usless folders and shortcuts to your programs menu. Internet printing? - If I want it I'll look for it. Dont add things to my computer unless I ask you to.
    It adds programs that run at startup and in your system tray to try and disguise the fact that it's as slow as a sick  three legged dog to load.

The free Acrobat Reader works, but is also slow and bloated.

I could go on.  But instead try this:
 Foxit PDF reader - small, clean and much faster than Adobe's Acrobar reader.

And if you want to create PDF files this site will cover the needs of most people:  Create PDF's from Word or HTML,  There are free and paid versions available...
http://www.expresspdf.com

There are other free PDF creators about. They may not have as many features you'll never use as Adobe's but they don't try to take over your PC either...