Microsoft Outlook can be a pretty complex piece of software. While Google keeps its mail and calendar applications separate, it keeps each piece of software informed of what the other is doing. Microsoft sticks its mail and scheduling software together. That can make it difficult to navigate but it also means that it’s packed full of […]
Calendars are supposed to help us plan the future and prepare our schedules. The future though tends to have its own ideas. Plans can change and when they do, we need to be able to change the events we’ve put in our calendars. To be able to add what you need to in your calendar, […]
Grabbing your Outlook Calendar and fleeing to Google Calendar should feel liberating. You’re ditching Microsoft’s complex email and calendar software, and moving to something much simpler, more accessible and easier to use on mobile devices. As you’d expect from Microsoft, the process of exporting and importing isn’t entirely straightforward. The first step is to export […]
Google used to have a pretty neat sync utility that automatically matched anything added to Google Calendar to Outlook. It meant that if you decided to turn your back on Google and switch to everything Microsoft, you could shut down Google Calendar and find a history of your life and future waiting for you in […]
This productivity and politically correct hack is for when you’re on vacation, a business trip, or unavailable for other reasons. If you’re using Outlook you can create an automatic out-of-office message for email replies. This message lets your email contacts know that you’re not in the office and when you’ll return. Did you also know […]
Microsoft’s Outlook is a fairly complex piece of software. While Google Calendar and Apple’s calendar app assume that users will be individual customers who want to keep track of their friends’ birthdays, their dentist appointments, and their PTA meetings, Microsoft assumes that its users will sitting in their offices. Users don’t just create events. They […]
