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Declutter your Office 365 & Exchange email with 'Clutter' option while using Microsoft Office Outlook

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An additional nice feature Microsoft Office for Outlook particularly when you are migrated to Office 365 is the ‘Clutter’ option which automatically segregates the less important email to a folder called ‘Clutter’ based on your responsive behavior in dealing with your email. Microsoft claims it to be an intelligent feature which learns as you use this option and will serve you better. As stated by Microsoft, these are the important advantages of having activated the Clutter option:

Using Web Access and Email Client programs for accessing, archiving & retrieving Emails

Further to the evaluation of importance of email management (explained in this post Email Management is an important issue ) it is now important to know the methods of accessing emails. Email is a service provided by many companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and many businesses on their own, with the same objective of allowing their users to have an identity in and out of their organizations. Methods to access emails Web Access The simplest method is to access via web. That means the email service provider provides a web address and the user can simply use this URL for logging in from any computer or mobile using the available browsers. The advantage of this method is the direct and updated access to the email server.

Why managing and organizing Email is an important issue?

Email is an indispensable tool in the modern offices which require their employees to work on computers for many professions. Email is a word that literally means electronic mail and now email has replaced the traditional letters between various organizations, persons and family members. Business do send important letters related to contracts where signatures are involved, but otherwise the trend these days is to stick with email, opt to receive bills online, for saving time, energy and environment. In spite of a tremendous raise of IM (instant messaging) apps because of large number of mobile subscribers, email still has its place on the internet space and it may exist till a new agreed method of credible communication would be invented that could replace email. In the near future it doesn't seem to be possible.

Blogging made simple by free 'Windows Live Writer' program

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If you are the owner of a blog, or just an author who is only concerned about writing the stuff, Windows Live Writer is one program that helps you greatly. You may be in a team of Bloggers in which one is the editor who looks after the content as well as the formatting (bells & whistles) while you may be the one mostly concerned with 'content' which is the king in blog promotion. While we need to acknowledge that generally all blogging services like ‘Blogger’, ‘Wordpress’, ‘Typepad’ do provide almost all options needed to create a nice blog post, they aren’t very easy for everyone, particularly to those of older generations who weren’t using computers during their job days. Particularly when a website or a blog employs more than one person to do the blogging job, the authors may not be computer literates to an extent that they can play with HTML code, widgets, tweaking the CSS, etc.

YearBook - Personal productivity tool from LifeTools series by ViprasCraft

ViprasCraft's YearBook  (LifeTools series) can be best utilized following these simple guidelines: Making your book first: Based on your convenience you can either choose A4 or A5 paper optimized format of YearBook. A4 format : If you have opted for the A4 paper size format, it is just sufficient to print this free PDF file in this way: First print all the pages in the PDF file back to back (front & rear) printing on A4 sheets. You will get 5 A5 sheets with 10 pages printed on them back to back. First sheet with pages 1 & 2 serves as a Cover page as well as a guide with instructions for better use. Second sheet with pages 3 &4 serves as the section 'Roles, Goals and Habits'. You can take as many photocopies of this page as you want. But if you ask us how many pages would be ideal, we recommend 2 sheets (with 4 sides) as ideal. Considering 30 goals per page (15 x 2 columns) we make 60 per sheet which means a total of 120 goals. That means in a year y

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