Ever wonder how you can easily save the contact info for someone directly from an email, without having to copy and paste a whole bunch of info?

Let’s say you received an email from someone whose contact info was not saved in your contacts. Will you ever find the time to do it?  Well if you are like me and think it’s too much work to have to go in contacts click new and manually add the users name and email address, the kind folks at Microsoft have that figured out this tip for us.

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What you can do is simply right click the senders name in the e-mail message and then choose Add to Outlook Contacts, you will now be presented with a contact window with the name and e-mail fields already populated. You can then add any additional info like phone number and street address.

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What do you think of this tip?

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Import iCal calendar into Outlook 2007

Outlook 2007 supports the iCal calendar format, which lets you share your calendar with others using this format. It can also import calendars that are available in the iCal format. So, for example, if you find a calendar for your favorite TV show, sports team’s games, or even eagerly anticipated DVD releases on a site like www.iCalShare.com, you can import the calendar into your Outlook.

The items from the calendars you subscribe to appear either side-by-side or overlaid over your Outlook calendar. To subscribe to a calendar, click the ICS subscription link for the calendar on the calendar Web site and answer Yes when Outlook asks if you want to subscribe to it.

To change the calendar from side-by-side to overlay, right click the calendar in the Calendar list and choose the desired View option. Now you’ll always know what’s coming up so you can make your plans around it.