There are many pre-defined shortcut buttons that don’t appear on the toolbars in Office 2003 simply because there isn’t enough room to fit them all on screen. You’ll find that you use the same functions over and over again in the Microsoft applications, particularly Word and Excel, so it makes sense to have easy access to the ones you use most. As you expand your repetoire and discover new functions you can do in these programs, you may also want to add in additional buttons to match. Here’s how to quickly add your favourite functions to toolbars as buttons…

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It’s a good idea to keep an eye on your Junk Mail and Spam filtering folders in Outlook, just in case a legitimate email slips through the cracks. As spammers get increasingly sophisticated with their spamming techniques, it can take a little while for the spam filtering software to catch up and sometimes you might notice spam in your Inbox, or perfectly legitimate emails in your Junk Mail folder. What should you do if you notice a ‘real’ email in your spam filter?

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Ever arrived home at night, knowing that you have some more work to get done, and realise you’ve left a vital file on the desktop of your work PC? Well, that might be just a sign that you need to put your feet up and relax… but, if the file really needs to be retrieved, you can avoid having to drive back into the office. If you are the lucky user of a Small Business Server, you are able to use a valuable feature called “Remote Web Workplace” (RWW) to access that file.

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In your Outlook 2003 inbox, you can generally see a list of emails and various information about that email – such as who the email is from, the subject, and what date/time it was received. If there is other information you would like to see listed beside each of your emails (eg. its size) there is a way to customize which “fields” you view.

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Notice boards are great for sharing company information, but
how handy would it be to have an internal website (or ‘intranet’) for staff
use? If you are the lucky user in a Small Business Server network, setting up
an intranet for your business is simple – it’s already built in to your system
and is called ‘Sharepoint’.

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