Tag: Personal Outlook Training
Outlook Suggested Contacts: What are they used for?
If you have installed Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010, you may have noticed the new “Suggested Contacts” in your contacts area in Outlook. What does it do? How do you use them? What are they for? How do names get there!
Here is the Microsoft Explanation
But here is my simple explanation:
Outlook’s Suggested Contacts do a few things
- Keeps email addresses you have emailed in there if you have not saved them as a contact, but it does not nicely organize them by last name/first name. Consider it a “reply email database”. Otherwise known as your favorite “Auto-fill” (what happens when you open a new email and start typing someone’s name and it auto-populates people you have emailed). It’s Outlook’s “Memory bank” of who you have emailed in the past.
- If you leave one email provider and move to another, getting your contacts in your “auto-fill” can be returned
Con’s
- I think it’s picky because not all the emails I have sent are in there, so don’t depend on it to work 100%
- No organization unless you manually go in and add in the first name/last name.
- Not reliable, but better than nothing
Pro’s
- Not everyone has a CRM system so I appreciate when I move to one computer to the next that I have a way to gathering those email addresses up in one swoop without bogging down my contacts in Outlook.
- If you have an iPhone, every person you have ever emailed gets added to it (yeah, not fun to clean up), but they don’t all show in Outlook.
For a great story on how to disable this, I found this article. How to disable Suggested Contacts in Outlook 2010 by Black.
If you have questions about suggested contacts, synching, etc… please call me for an appt! 612-865-4475
Fake Emails, Beware!
Here’s a couple of bogus emails I recently received, don’t fall for these or click on the links!
This first one is the worst I’ve seen! There’s not even a company name! What account information has been changed exactly? And who’s support center am I supposed to be contacting? Nice try… NOT!
This is a fake LinkedIn message alert I got in my email the other day… Yep, even LinkedIn gets spammed.
If a message like this ever infects your computer, Call That Girl and we’ll get you and your technology back in good health!
Google Apps Email Setup & Assistance In The Twin Cities
If you are here looking for help with setting up Google apps, you came to the right place.
We have many ways we can help you. The best way to start though is to call in and request a meeting with our Google Apps Manager at 612-865-4475. We will need at least 15 minutes to discuss your email needs and determine if Google Apps is the best way to manage your email for you and your company.
A bit about Google Apps:
Here is our easy to understand guide to transitioning from your current email to Google Apps!
- 15-20 minute discussion about your current email needs and what you want to do with your current technology and what your company needs. Maybe Google Apps isn’t the right choice, but we can help you figure that out!
- We will help you make a decision based on your budget and size of your company
- We will set up a transition plan and a date to move forward
- We will help you back up your current email – calendar and contacts to a local computer
- We work with a Google Expert to do the back end transition to insure your email is secured and moved in a swift and quick manner.
- On your transition date, we will have plenty of staff available to do the transition and import in your old email to your Google Apps accounts/Outlook.
- Once your email is configured and working fine, then we will set your smartphones.
- You will be in the cloud and happy as a clam!
Additional information for Outlook users:
- We will reivew your current Outlook PST fiiles to insure that you only need to move over data that you need to use with Google Apps. Like all synchronizing software, less is more. We may archive some of your old email for you to easily access at any time on one main computer.
Pinterest crashes my Outlook. Does it crash yours, too?
A few weeks ago, I received an email from Pinterest telling me that I had a friend on Facebook following me. Naturally I was excited to have a new follower, until I noticed that when I went to click on that email….my entire Outlook just froze up. Now I didn’t get the Outlook 2010 white screen of death, but my Outlook just froze completely. At first I was a bit shocked, but after a minute or so it unfroze and I was back to business. I thought it was a one-time glitch, but apparently not. It started happening each and every time I received an email from Pinterest and it’s starting to irritate me. Here is an example of the email…
After doing some investigation, I figured out that it’s a back end plug in from Facebook causing this issue. I found this out when I finally opened Outlook and some random rogue plug in showed up. I’m very annoyed because it came and went so fast and I can’t find it in my Outlook settings anywhere to disable it.
I wanted to blog about this for those that are having the same issue. Please comment below if you are! I will contact you if you leave your email. This is an issue that has yet to be fixed and I want it resolved!
Why you should be careful when buying Microsoft Office on the Internet
I’ve had a few clients call in this year with problems with the Office products they purchased online. They either downloaded a pirated version and had to get their money back from their credit card, or they just had tons of issues with the installation causing many other problems.
When most of us need software, we go to our favorite search engine (mine is Google) and type in what we are looking for. Many of us want to save money, because software is expensive! But….if you end up buying a product that is from a site selling illegitimate copies, you will have a few more headaches to deal with as Microsoft will not activate products they do not sell licenses for. As well, 30 days after a purchase, you may have problems. Or, if you try to re-install, you will have problems.
Or you may not and get lucky. I recommend just paying full price; own it and use it as you wish.
Here is an example of a search in Google for “Microsoft Office.” These are the top 4 searches. The top 2 are actual paid ads from Microsoft. The 3rd one down…is a store selling products for WAY CHEAP. I would be leary of buying that product.
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Outlook, Gmail and iPhone Syncing Minneapolis, MN
Not sure how it’s done? We can help!
We can remote into your computer and set up your Outlook and your smartphone to “synchronize” together via our tools that are paid for or with free applications. If you really want a robust email/calendar we can move your company’s emails/calendar and contacts to a “hosted exchange” that is yep, in the Cloud! The Cloud is exciting, it allows you so much more freedom to be anywhere at any time and have real-time updates and synching of your stuff so you can rest assured you’re saving time without seeing duplicates!
We can even put your files in the “Cloud” so all of your word documents and excel files are accessible anywhere. Call That Girl’s support team is fully trained on cloud software and apps on phones, so you can trust your data in our hands.
We also do online backups, so there is no need for those old hardware driven servers. Use your own computer as a server, save money and time. Schedule an appointment today to find out how we can do just about everything you need in the cloud.
Our one time set up fees and prepay blocks of remote support time get you out of those irritating monthly payments and hardware upgrades. Move to the Cloud and enjoy a stress free business day!
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