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.

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.

Disable the message Are you sure you want to permanently delete all the items and subfolders in the “folder name” folder, when you are cleaning items out of a folder such as the Deleted Items folder and save a step every time.

1. In Outlook 2007, select Tools > Options.

2. Click the Other tab and select Advanced Options…

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By default, Word 2007 doesn’t have the useful Send to Mail Recipeint option available on the toolbar. Here’s how to add it.

1. Click the small down arrow on the right-hand side of the Quick Access Toolbar, and select More Commands.

2. Under the Choose commands from list, select All Commands.

3. Select Send to Mail Recipient, and then click Add.

4. Click OK.

Want to easily create PDF documents using Office 2007? Microsoft has a tool that makes it easy.

1. Download and install the 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS.

2. From the Office program (Word 2007, Excel 2007, etc.) and the file you wish to make into a PDF, click the Office button in the top left corner.

3. Hover the mouse arrow over Save As.

4. Under Save a copy of the document click PDF.

5. In the Save as type, select PDF (*.pdf).

6. Select either Standard (publishing online and printing) or Minimum size (publishing online).

7. Click Publish and you’re done.

Source: How To: Enable PDF Support in Office 2007

How to easily import slides from another presentation in PowerPoint 2007.

1. Open PowerPoint and the file you wish to import slides into.

2. Click the Home menu.

3. Click New Slide > Reuse Slides… 

4. The Reuse Slides options will appear on the right side. Click Browse… > Browse File…

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How to add Personal Folders to Outlook 2007.

1. In Outlook 2007, select File > Data File Management…

2. Under the Data Files tab, click Add…

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There are some email messages where recipients shouldn’t be allowed to ‘Reply to all’. There is a way in Outlook 2007 to disable the option and prevent users from using it. Here’s how to create a form to accomplish this:

1. From the Tools menu, click Forms > Design a Form.

2. In the Standard Forms Library click Message, and then click Open.

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How to insert a caption to your photos or images in Word 2007.

1. Click once on the image that you wish to add a caption to.

2. Click References then click Insert Caption.

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How to set Outlook 2007 as the default email client.

1. In Outlook 2007 under the Tools menu, click Options

2. Click the Other tab.

3. Under General, check the box for Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and Calendar.

See also:
Make Outlook the default program for E-mail, Contacts, and Calendar

You get the following error when you try to install Office 2007:

If that doesn’t solve the problem, you may want to try downloading and reinstalling the .NET Framework again.

Enable or disable Outlook 2007 from autosaving your email messages to the Drafts folder automatically.

4. Click OK, then OK again.

You can open and save Office 2007 files in older versions of Excel, Word and Powerpoint.

You will normally get the error messages below when trying to read Word 2007, Excel 2007 and Powerpoint 2007 files in older versions:

Word
Windows cannot open this file.