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Use Outlook 2007's Quick Parts to Paste Frequently Used Text

June 17th, 2009 @ 9:33 am

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Categories: E-Mail, Software, Time-Savers, Video Tutorial

Tags: Customer Service, Outlook 2007, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Groupware, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites

If you routinely find yourself typing the same messages over and over, have I got a feature for you. Outlook 2007’s woefully misnamed Quick Parts lets you save and then paste frequently used text.

You could use this for, say, canned customer-service responses or even e-mail signatures for different accounts. Sound good? If you’ve got two minutes to spare, I’ll teach you to use Quick Parts in this exclusive Business Hacks video (which is best viewed full-screen):

Pretty cool, huh? Is this something you think you’ll use, or do you prefer a standalone text-insertion solution like PhraseExpress (which works across multiple applications)?

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    06/18/09 | Report as spam

    RE: Use Outlook 2007's Quick Parts to Paste Frequently Used Text

    This is great!

    Thanks.

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    RE: Use Outlook 2007's Quick Parts to Paste Frequently Used Text

    Nice One happy

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