Category: Outlook Support
The 3 (4) titans can play together nicely, finally.
If you are having issues syncing your Gmail calendar to your iPhone to your Outlook, give me a call and I’ll help you with this issue. I cannot guarantee a 20 minute set up, but it should be under an hour either way.
Today was interesting. I had a client book some time with me today to work on a Outlook, Gmail calendar and contacts sync issue.
Since he is using free Gmail, you are held hostage to not being able to sync calendars anymore and forget about contacts unless you use a 3rd party tool. And while there are many out there, I tend to lean towards CompanionLink or Gsyncit. Both work, but I’m finding Gysyncit is working better. Less snags in the setup and first round of syncing.
So the client and I set up CompanionLink, he is on a slow internet connection and we find the syncing very slow and required us to close his Outlook and reboot a couple of times to see the actual Outlook calendar on his Samsung phone. We used the Google option for syncing. I also had to configure the settings a few times and I will guess that an average user of CompanionLink would not know about this, the snooping around I do very fast and furiously. When a client is paying per hour, you wan this to just work!
End of the job, we found appointments syncing. Client happy. Until later, no joy. Now we will try Gsyncit tomorrow. I tell ya, free Gmail is not always free folks. I hate telling clients this, but for me it’s not the best if you love and heart Microsoft Outlook like I do!
I purchased Office 2013 many months ago, and while I was kind of not looking forward to the new products (always a learning curve, or getting used to the new look), I have to admit that I do now enjoy Outlook 2013 more than I expected. Here are my top 3 reasons to upgrade.
1.) It’s fast! I love the speed they gave this product. This could be because I have 8 gigs of memory on the computer, but I have noticed the speed on even my 2 gig memory computer. I have noticed while surfing between my folders that this version of Outlook just goes right through them and the search feature even seems faster.
2.) Not as many “White screens of death”….this is compared to the good old Windows blue screen of death. If you are an avid Outlook user and maximizing it (meaning, many emails being checked, many folders and PST files), you have to had a few “white screens”. Outlook 2013 has very few. I have gotten them, but that’s usually when I’m doing mad crazy work. I overclock it.
3.) Social Network Connector, it’s awesome! I signed in with my LinkedIn and Facebook, and now anytime I get an email from someone who has an account with that email in LinkedIn or Facebook, it shows their picture and links to view their social networks quickly. Pictured above is how you add it and below is how an email looks after receiving an email.
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Typical Outlook problems we see on a daily basis at Call That Girl….
We hear that a lot here at Call That Girl. If you ever have that problem or have corrupted PST files, need help setting up Outlook, transition your email from Outlook POP/IMAP/web access to Microsoft Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010…. or have trouble sending and receiving in Outlook -Call That Girl! We have over 14 years experience troubleshooting just about every problem with Outlook.
Lisa Hendrickson the owner of Call That Girl is our Outlook expert will get your email running the way you want it without much effort on your end. Outlook support is typically done with remote service, so as long as you have internet connection, we can help you from anywhere in the world!
What we can help with any type of Outlook problems
• Set up and configuration
• Backup and restorations
• Explaining how Outlook really works
• How to move from your Gmail to Outlook
• How to stop using free email programs for business
• How to export your contacts to load into social media networks
• How to export your LinkedIn contacts into outlook
• How to setup and use your Blackberry with Outlook
• Setting up rules for email (and following them!)
• Managing your email life much better
• How to manage more than one calendar (personal and business)
• Using Tasks and Notes
• Keeping more than one contacts list (for networking/emailing purposes)
• Moving from Outlook express to Outlook 2003/2007
• Calendar management
• Move from POP to IMAP or to Hosted Exchange (Synch your world!)
If you are using Outlook Express to manage your email for personal or business, I am writing this blog to give you a heads up on some changes coming up.
After April 2014, your old computer running Outlook Express will no longer be supported from Microsoft and it will not be safe to have on the internet. You will be recommended to upgrade your computer by me, others and Microsoft. That also means your email is no longer secure and you will have to move your email from Outlook Express to a new email program. (Windows Live Mail, Outlook 2013 or Outlook.com is recommended).
Moving email from Outlook Express can take some time and be complicated, or it can be easy and not very difficult. I have upgraded many people from Outlook Express to Windows Live Mail (Replacement for Outlook Express on Vista and Windows 7 & 8) successfully for many years now.
It’s up to you on this one folks, if you want my help, with just a few questions I can let you know if this will be a project or a quick upgrade. Many clients have 13 years of emails in their Outlook Express and due to size issues, transitioning email and configuring can take hours to accomplish this task. We also need to figure out if you want access to these emails when you are on different computers/devices and while traveling.
I will offer free consultations on this project, please email me at info@callthatgirl.biz or call 612-865-4475 to schedule an appointment on my calendar.
Awhile back, I had a client who did an update on her iPhone and during that update, her calendar went missing. She was on hosted exchange and due to some “terms and conditions”, a mailbox restore was not going to happen for the client. (By the way, not all companies refuse to do mailbox restores, just this specific one company that will remain nameless for now). Even if you have a company that will restore mailboxes, it’s sometimes time critical to get back your information that you have already stored locally.
So if you have any version of Outlook, not just Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2010, the same instructions will work to some degree. There are screen shots below. The backup file will be stored in your default Outlook folders in your computer, but these should be backed up to an external backup or online.
If you need online backup, please call me to schedule an appointment. We charge $79 for setup and your products costs are $65 for one computer up to $109 for 3 computers.
The larger your hosted exchange is, the longer a backup will take. I recommend doing this on Fridays before you leave the office or before you go to bed. You will not be able to use Outlook during this time.
Click “Finish” and Outlook will now export a full copy of your hosted exchange to your computer.
