For some companies, timely responses are important but when several employees are using a single Outlook shared mailbox to deal with customer inquiries, it can be a problem because users have difficulty determining who “owns” a particular email or even if anyone in the company has responded. Additionally, while users who have access to a […]
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How to Send Texts Through Email
Recently a user asked us to build the ability to send text messages through email from the Outlook Timed Email Organizer add-in. Can we build into the add-in the ability to send text alerts? Yes, but sending texts implies a subscription cost that we would have to pass onto you, and we don’t want that. […]
Introducing Quick Text Hotkeys Pro
We’re all trying to be more efficient as we work from home. It’s important that once you carve out a few minutes of time, to be able to answer as many emails as possible before the next distraction comes along. To be as efficient as possible, wouldn’t it be great if as soon as you […]
Automatic Updates Turned On – Phase 1
In the last several email newsletters, we’ve been letting you know that we have been working on getting Microsoft Outlook automatic updates turned on and running. This is one of our 2020 goals, and we continuing towards reaching it. Previous to today, if you tried to check for updates by clicking on the About button […]
Date Display Format Tricks
Save As PDF, Save As PDF Pro, Attachment Save, Attachment Save Pro, Rename Attachments and Quick Text Hotkeys all allow you to specify a date/time format. The add-in provides a drop down list that allows you to select a pre-defined date format. What most people don’t realize is that they can type directly in that […]
How to Use Outlook Rules (A Beginner’s Guide)
What To Do When Outlook Doesn’t Work
No matter how well written add-ins are (and even Outlook itself), there will always be the occasional Outlook problem that doesn’t seem to go away. You can read about how to fix your Outlook problem on the internet, but sometimes the suggestions don’t work for your specific case. Here at Sperry Software we get our […]
How to Print Only the First Page of an Outlook Email
When it comes to printing emails, sometimes it’s only necessary to print the first page of an email, because the rest of the pages are filled with older information that may not be necessary, or perhaps a trailing blank page is always printed for some reason. For printing emails in Outlook one at a time […]