Quick Email Tip: How you can avoid unintentionally sending a draft of an email

Quick Email Tip: How you can avoid unintentionally sending a draft of an email

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[wp_ad_camp_1] [wp_ad_camp_4] This is a very simple tactic I have used to make it way hard to accidentally send an email I am writing to the recipients before I'm actually done with it. Say, you need to reply to a large distribution list on an email thread so it's not practical to remove all the recipients until you are done. Read on for the simple Email tip. The Trick You ust enter some garbage characters (like "jjlkjlkjlkjlkj") into either the To: or CC: field of the email editor. That's it. You don't need to do anything more. The effect is that if you inadvertently hit Send when you wanted to click Save or something else, you will get a notification that one of your email addresses doesn't properly resolve to…
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How to Pin an Email to the Top of Your Inbox in Outlook

How to Pin an Email to the Top of Your Inbox in Outlook

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[wp_ad_camp_1] [wp_ad_camp_4] Pinning the E-Mail Message Do you have important emails you need to be able to quickly access from your Inbox in Outlook? How to pin an email to the top of my Inbox, you ask? Here is how I effectively "Pin" an e-mail message to the top of my Inbox. There are a few ways to accomplish this. The first two approaches try to make due with the version of Outlook you may have. The last option presented is for a built-in feature. Option 1: Use the Task Pane First, I keep the Task Pane in view. Next, when I want to Pin an e-mail message, I set the Follow Up flag to No Date. That way, those messages are at the top of my Tasks list always.…
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