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Mastering New Outlook Webinar Series: Master Your Inbox, Calendar & Tasks

| September 18, 2025

Mastering New Outlook Webinar Series: Master Your Inbox, Calendar & Tasks

Register here: New Outlook 4-Part Webinar Series: Mastering Your Inbox, Calendar & Tasks » TRACCreations4E

Clients, online followers and newsletter subscribers, I have been working with Teresa Cyrus since last winter on New Outlook. Her and I have found a great partnership regarding New Outlook. As you know I’m more on the technical side and she is on the training side. Partnering and helping each other made so much sense. I have offered her a space on my platform to offer you all a small bite of what New Outlook will be like in the future. By 2029, this is our future. Many of you will be moving to New Outlook and might want to know what is coming and there is a lot! Teresa is covering much of it in these 4 sessions.

I will be hosting and moderating the chat, she will be lead presenter.

With New Outlook comes New Workflows—this 4-part series shows you how to master them all.

$50 to attend all 4 sessions, these will be recorded. Presented once a week starting Oct 3, 10, 17 and 24.

Register here: New Outlook 4-Part Webinar Series: Mastering Your Inbox, Calendar & Tasks » TRACCreations4E

Presenter: 

Teresa B. Cyrus, TRACCreations4E

Founder | Certified Trainer | MVP

Designed for business and administrative professionals, team leads, small business owners, IT professionals, and anyone curious about the New Outlook features, this series will help you take control of your inbox, calendar, tasks, and communications with confidence.

  • You’ll Learn step-by-step with live demonstrations
  • Walk away with ready-to-use workflows you can apply immediately
  • Boost productivity for both individual and team collaboration

Dates: October 3, 10, 17, and 24
Time: 3 PM Eastern Time Zone (1 hour each)
Price: $50 for all 4 sessions (limited-time offer — that’s $12.50 per session)

Session Topics:

  • New Outlook Inbox: Accelerate AFTER Inbox Management
  • New Outlook Calendar Mastery: Smarter Scheduling & Workflows
  • Managing Tasks Made Easy With To Do & Planner
  • Bonus: Professional Newsletters in Outlook, No Extra Tools NeededNote: Each session includes live demonstrations of the latest New Outlook features, which may differ from published videos as Microsoft continues to roll out updates.

Session Descriptions:

New Outlook Inbox: Accelerate AFTER Inbox Management

With TRACCreations4e signature AAIM system, you’ll take control of your inbox and supercharge your productivity. Learn how to:

  • Automate filing to declutter and review actionable messages faster
  • Prioritize follow-ups to stay on top of important requests
  • Archive files to keep information accessible while keeping your inbox clean

This session equips you to conquer your inbox with efficiency, giving you more time to focus on what truly matters – right now.

New Outlook Calendar Mastery: Smarter Scheduling & Workflows

Discover powerful scheduling tools designed for today’s hybrid workstyle. See practical demos of how to:

  • Streamline meeting scheduling with new and enhanced tools for hybrid work
  • Simplify workflows for in-person and follow meetings with improved filters
  • Save time with hidden gems like composing tips and auto-online meetings
  • Avoid scheduling mix-ups by confidently distinguishing between appointments and meetings

Managing Tasks Made Easy With To Do & Planner

Managing tasks doesn’t have to be a chore! In this dynamic session, you’ll learn how to:

  • Stop using your inbox for tasks and break free from email overload
  • Manage Personal Tasks in To Do to stay aligned with your team
  • Create organized task groups to share and prioritize like a pro
  • Manage project tasks in Planner to collaborate and track progress seamlessly

Walk away with practical tools and a clear game plan to conquer your to-do list and simply your work day – all day – every day!

Create Professional Newsletters Directly in Outlook Without the Hassle

Learn how to build polished newsletters right inside Outlook for Windows, Outlook on the Web, or dedicated website. In this session, you’ll:

  • Access and enable the Newsletter feature
  • Design a consistent format for internal updates
  • Share newsletters externally using a simple workaround

If you manage communications, this session will help you streamline the process without switching tools or purchasing a third-party app.

Target Audience:

  • Business and administrative professionals who want to streamline their daily email, calendar, and task workflows
  • Team leads and managers seeking smarter scheduling and collaboration tools
  • Small business owners and entrepreneurs looking to manage communications without extra software
  • IT professionals and power users who want to stay ahead of New Outlook’s evolving features
  • Anyone curious about the latest New Outlook features and how to use them effectively

Reserve your spot today—space is limited. Gain New Outlook skills that save you hours each week and transform how you work.

OneDrive and how it works on Windows 11

| August 27, 2025

OneDrive and how it works on Windows 11

When you get your new computer, Microsoft will have you go through a set up wizard. During the set up, you will be asked to log into your computer with a Microsoft account. If you have your older computer there, look at the “settings” in that computer and find the email that you logged in with. That is the email you should log in with on your new computer. It will set up OneDrive as you had it on the older computer and download all of your desktop items, documents and whatever else you have stored in OneDrive.

If you want to only use your local C drive, there is a way to not set up OneDrive but it’s a bit of work and lately I haven’t been recommending it. In the past, some of my clients who wanted this didn’t know how much time it took and the possible issues in the future. What can happen? OneDrive might still be not set up, but it could still pop up one day and you click on a button and all of your local data is now uploading to OneDrive. Which can cause a lot of issues and problems.

A workaround?

Set up OneDrive and then chose to change your default save locations for your documents to be the C drive documents. Like this path: C:\Users\LisaE\Documents

I can help with this and helping you with avoiding OneDrive.

Use the form below to get in touch.

 

Call That Girl New Rates and Why I Raised My Rates

| August 27, 2025

Call That Girl New Rates and Why I Raised My Rates

Problems you might experience if you stay on Windows 10 after Oct 2025

| August 27, 2025

Problems you might experience if you stay on Windows 10 after Oct 2025

For those folks who are willing to risk it and not upgrade their Windows 10 computers, here is a list of issues you could have. Some might be dealbreakers and some might have other band-aid options to get working. I’m not sure yet what will have problems so I’m risking it with you all. My main desktop is staying on Windows 10 with no option to upgrade to Windows 11. My other laptop has Windows 11 and I use it daily so I’m all set if something critical happens to my main desktop. I also have backed up all the data from the Windows 10 computer to an external hard drive, so it will be easier for me to set up a new Windows 11 computer. Btw…almost all of my daily use files are saved in my Business 365 OneDrive.

Issues you could experience: 

  • Security bumps and hiccups
  • Updates for Windows won’t continue or they will offer you a fee to stay on Windows 10 (see that out there, haven’t seen it in a clients sytem yet).
  • Office might have a few disrupts with security for 365.
  • Office might not launch, or opens/closes
  • Office might have issues updating
  • After you reboot, you could have issues with software that was working fine and now it isn’t
  • After you try to do an update, the reboot could have issues with logging into the computer
  • Some applications might not function correctly

If you need help help on this issue, please use the form below to get in contact

Windows 10 end of life in Oct, should you buy new or wait?

| August 27, 2025

Windows 10 end of life in Oct, should you buy new or wait?

How much time does it take to set up a new computer?

| August 27, 2025

How much time does it take to set up a new computer?

When you start up your new computer, it will have a start up wizard and that can take a few minutes to do. It will ask you during the set up wizard to log in with a Microsoft account or create a new one. I would go to the old computer and find out what account you logged into that computer with. It will make easier if you’re using OneDrive.

If you would like my help with a new PC set up, please use the form below. When I assist, this can be a 1-day job but I only bill for the time on the phone I’m helping you, so expect many phone calls and checking in between installations. I also know how to configure software quickly and solve errors fast, so if you have issues, they will be taken care of.

  • This step is 5-15 min.

After the wizard has completed, you should run the updates. I would continue to check for new updates until done.

  • This step can be hours to complete and be fully updated.

The rest of this list can be done in any order: 

Then you can install your Office programs. If you need Outlook Classic you will need to download that as it does not come with 365 subscriptions anymore.

  • This step can be 15-20 min

After Office is installed, then I set up Chrome, Adobe, Zoom Dropbox, Teams, Google drive, etc.

  • This step can be as much time as it takes

Finally, your data from the old computer. You can do this step at any time

  • Minutes or hours to complete, depending on how much data you have to bring over from the old computer

Antivirus, Printers, VPN. I would save these for last due to the fact they can sometimes get in the way of the other installations

  • This again takes as much time as it needs.

Outlook set up

  • This can take a few minutes to set up and then hours for the email to download from the mail host server.