You can send out an email to take a vote from recipients in Outlook 2007.

1. Start a new message and click Options.

2. Click Use Voting Buttons.

3. Select the voting buttons you wish to use. Use Custom… if you wish to write your own options.

4. If you have selected the Custom… option, the Message Options dialog will appear. Type the options you would like in the Use voting buttons field. Separate your options with a semicolon (;). Click Close when done.

Now you’re ready to type and send the email.

If you want to check who accepted or declined a meeting invite in Outlook 2007, here’s how.

1. Click the Calendar icon in the Navigation Pane.

2. Double-click the meeting you want to check.

3. Click the Tracking button.

Note: Only the meeting organizer can view this option.

Keep your Outlook 2007 Inbox clean and tidy by setting up AutoArchive.

1. In Outlook 2007, select Tools > Options…

2. Click the Other tab, then click AutoArchive…

3. Set how often you would like AutoArchive to archive your email. In this example, Outlook 2007 will AutoArchive my items every 20 days. Select other options as needed. The other important place on this dialog you may want to pay attention to is the location where it will Move old items to. Some people like to set this path to a network drive that is backed up regularly by system administrators. That way, you won’t lose any data if your hard drive crashes.

Also set how old you would like items to be before they are archived with the Clean out items older than setting. You can also choose to Apply these settings to all folders now. Click OK when you’re done.

Optionally, you can manually archive items any time by clicking File > Archive.

How to split your Word 2003 document text into columns.

1. Using your mouse, highlight the text you wish to split into columns.

2. Click Format > Columns…

3. Select how many columns you would like to apply to the text. Set the other options as needed. Click OK when done.

How do you divide your Word 2007 document into columns of 2 or 3? Follow these steps:

1. Highlight the text you wish to put into columns with your mouse.

2. Click Page Layout.

3. Click Columns then select the amount of columns you wish to apply.

When you try to send an email in Outlook 2003, you get an error:

Interface Not Recognized

To try to fix this problem, try this:

Click Start > Run and type regsvr32 ole32.dll and click OK.

Want to protect a Word 2008 document from certain eyes? You can set a password on it.

1. Click File > Save As.

2. Click Options.

3. Click the Show All button

4. Click the Security button.

5. Type a password in the Password to Open.

6. Click OK.

7. Type the password again.

8. Click OK.

If you want to prevent changes to a Word 2008 document, you can password protect it from being changed.

1. Click File > Save As.

2. Click Options.

3. Click the Show All button

4. Click the Security button.

5. Type a password in the Password to Modify box.

6. Click OK.

7. Type the password again.

8. Click OK.

If you are reviewing a document for a colleague, it will be easier to track changes if you enable Track Changes in your Word 2008 document.

1. Open the document.

2. Click View.

3. Click Toolbars.

4. Click Reviewing.

Blocking specific email addresses and domains are essential to controlling the amount of junk mail you get in Outlook 2007. You can add email addresses and domains to the block list by using the following steps:

1. Click Tools > Options.

2. On the Preferences tab, under E-mail, click Junk E-mail.

3. Click the Blocked Senders tab.

4. Click Add.

5. In the Enter an e-mail address or Internet domain name to be added to the list box, enter the name or address that you want to add. You can add entire domains or just an email address as follows:

• username@domain.com
• @domain.com
• domain.com

6. Click OK when you are done.

Sharing your Outlook 2007 calendar online so that others can view it is a very useful feature. Here’s how to enable it.

1. In Calendar, in the Navigation Pane, right-click the calendar you want to publish and select Publish to Internet, or click Publish My Calendar… .

2. You have to have a Windows Live ID account to proceed. Follow the instructions on the screen to make one if you don’t have one already, or sign in.

3. Next to Time Span, select the number of days for which you want to share your calendar.

4. Next to Detail, click the arrow and choose the amount of detail to share. If you want, select the Show time within my working hours only check box to restrict shared details to only those for your specified working hours in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

5. Next to Permissions, choose whether your calendar information can be viewed only by specified people or searched and viewed by anyone using Office Online.

• Only invited users can view this calendar - If you click this option, an Outlook sharing e-mail message opens after the calendar is published to Office Online. You can send the sharing e-mail message to each person who you want to grant access to your calendar. The sharing message automatically includes a link to the calendar and you can type a message if you want to.
• Anyone can view and search for this calendar on Office Online - If you click this option, anyone who knows the link to your calendar can view it. People do not need a Windows Live ID account to log on or sign in to a service. In addition, Office Online users can find this calendar when searching for calendars.

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You can add a watermark image to your presentation in Powerpoint 2007.

1. Open the presentation and click View.

2. Click Slide Master.

2. Under the Insert tab, within the Illustrations group, you can do one of the following:

• Click Picture, locate the picture that you wish to use for your watermark, and click Insert.
• Click Clip Art. In the Clip Art task pane, in the Search for and select a clip you’d like to use and click Go.

3. Click the Format tab then Picture Tools.

4. In the Arrange group, click Send to Back.

Make an email signature automatically appear at the bottom of your email in Outlook 2007.

1. Click Tools > Options.

2. Click the Mail Format then click the Signatures button.

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How to save attachments from an Outlook 2007 email.

1. Select the message in the Inbox.

2. Click File > Save Attachments.

3. Select the attachment to save.

4. Navigate to the folder where you want the attachment saved.

5. Change the name of the file if you like. Click Save.

Before a meeting, you may want to have an automatic presentation run to give your participants something to look at before the actual meeting. Or perhaps you just want to setup a presentation at a product display and run it automatically. You can accomplish this in PowerPoint 2007 with the following steps.

1. Open the presentation in you wish to automate in PowerPoint.

2. Click the Slide Show tab.

3. Click Set Up Slide Show.

4. Select the Browsed at a Kiosk (Full Screen) option.

You may want to set the slideshow to automatically change the slides.