When copy and pasting something into a Microsoft Office Application such as Word or Outlook, it will sometimes screw up the current format that you are having. This is normally happens when you copy and paste from other sources.
What you could do to remove the formatting is – Select the text that you have just pasted and use the shortcut key “Ctrl + Space”
In my previous post, I detailed out how to send HTML emails via Outlook. But I think its fair for me to also list out the limitations of Outlook 2007 so that you know what to expect
In Outlook 2007, Microsoft has removed the Internet Explorer based rendering engine and replacing it with Microsoft Word.
With that, Outlook 2007 has limited support for HTML and CSS to display HTML email messages. Unless your HTML emails are extremely simple, users of Outlook 2007 will have difficulty reading your message.
Here are some notable limitation:
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Want to send an webpage as an email? There are many ways of doing this. For one, you could use Microsoft Outlook or Internet Explorer (IE).
Here’s how you can do it
Sending HTML pages in Internet Explorer
Sending HTML pages in Outlook
The result should be similar to the following.
It’s been very long since i posted another office tips and tricks page. I sometimes needs to do that and it really is frustrating when you need to switch between Excel files. I guess this tip will be useful for those who needs to compare worksheet side by side.
So here how you can view your worksheets side by side.
On the View tab, in the Window group, click New Window.
On the View tab, in the Window group, click View Side by Side .
In the Compare Side by Side dialog box, click the worksheets that you want to compare. To scroll both worksheets at the same time, click Synchronous Scrolling in the Window group on the View tab.
Thanks to Lee Chun Onn that provide me. Have a tips and tricks that you want to share. Email me 
Recently I am playing around with a free outlook add in to help me organize my inbox better. It’s call ClearContext Personal
Here are some things that it can help you with
So far i haven’t got use to the add in. I believe it takes some effort to adapt to it. But i guess once you got used to it, your productivity and efficiency in Outlook will increase.
But overall the best feature for me is the email thread function it provides. One of the things i like about Gmail is that it groups all similar emails. I find it easier for me to search for all my emails. It offers something similar, so far i like this feature the most.
In every mail, it will show you the email threads as highlighted in the picture below
Check out ClearContext’s short video demo
My friend post a question to me about importing Gmail contacts to Outlook. It is actually quite simple to do it, here are some steps to do it.
1) In Gmail, click on contacts. Then select that contacts that you want to import.
2) Click Export
3) In the next screen, select Outlook CSV contacts
4) Next go to Outlook 2007. Click on File –> Import and Export
5) Select “Import from another file”
6) Select “Comma Separated Value (DOS)”
7) Follow the instructions and you should see your Gmail contacts in Outlook
In my line of work, I do need to work with people from different time zones. Adding a different time zone can really helps to manage the time differences.
To add a new time zone. Go to Tools menu > click Options > Under Calendar . Calendar options
Under Advance options > Click Time Zone > select the Show an additional time zone check box. In the Label box, type a description such as “Houston”. In the time zone list, click the Time Zone and click “Ok”
An additional time zone will appear next to your default time zone
If you are like me, my Outlook mail have too many folders storing different types of emails. Searching for your folders can be messy.
Here are some tips on how to add your frequently use folder in your favourite list.
Favorite folders are shortcuts to your most commonly used folder. Think of it the same as your desktop shortcut. To create a favorite folder, simply drag any folder up to the Favorite Folders area and drop it.
Remember though, if you drag “too many” favorite folders then you will end up with the same problem. So it should some selected folders that you always use
Favorite Folders in Outlook
The next time you need to access the folder, just click on the favorite folder.
To remove a favorite folder, just right click and select “Remove from favorite folders”. Do not, do not delete as it will delete the original folder as well
Try out Office Community Clip. This is a useful tool that allows you to record your voice and all the activities in the screen in your desktop.
It is very useful tool for you to:
Download the Office Community Clip and try it out..
A friend of mine asked me what software to install to print office documents to PDF. Microsoft provides an Add-In to allow Office documents to be save as PDF format.
Hope this is useful for people who don’t know about it.
