The email disclaimer is usually inserted to prevent the use of legal action against something written in an email. Even though it originated because of courts, lawyers or forgetful employees, why not take advantage of its familiarity to include a description of your offer and business? If it’s thought-out and composed accordingly then it will surely bring attention to your offer, but in order to use it well you’ll need a powerful tool – Bells&Whistles for Outlook. Read on for a better understanding of how you can manage your outgoing and ingoing communications. Read more: Why should you use email disclaimers? | 1 Comment

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Because emails take up so much of our daily lives and frequently come up in conversation, here’s a couple of fun & funny facts and (we hope) interesting trivia about them… feel free to wow your friends with your encompassing knowledge of the e-communications medium and be proud of being an email geek! * 😀

* Results may vary depending on friends.

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Is Outlook crawling at snail’s speed? Do you remember when it used to fly… or at least run?
One of the most important factors that determine Outlook’s performance is your PST file size… the bigger it gets, the slower Outlook functions. So, our time-saving, speed-increasing add-in Weight Diet for Outlook jumps to the rescue and automatically uploads your email attachments to the cloud! Say goodbye to archiving little pieces of documents, bloated PST files and click-and-wait operations! Read more: Reduce your PST file size easily by sending email attachments to the cloud

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Everything these days is about routine. No matter if we are at work or at home, in the end, all of us enter a tried-and-true pattern of actions and clicks. To combat the downward slope of repetitiveness, our feature-packed productivity add-in – Bells&Whistles for Outlook, comes with a nifty little feature: email templates. Continue reading for an in-depth tutorial and a special, time-limited offer! Read more: Combat routine with designer-made, free email templates

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Every week, in each of our increasingly-crowded Inboxes, quite a number of newsletters, e-cards and all manner of automatically-generated emails can be found. Even a friendlier, personalized greeting goes a long way in avoiding a quick click on the delete/move to trash button (and will also catch anyone’s eye), so here’s how to create scenarios for any imaginable emailing case with Easy Mail Merge. Read more: Personalize emails for any scenario imaginable, straight from Outlook | 2 Comments

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Surprisingly enough, while there are many options available (built-in Outlook or 3rd party) to make your life easier and automatically add your signature to emails, there aren’t many options to choose from when it comes to handling email greetings. Read more: Tired of repetitive greeting lines in Outlook? | 1 Comment

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About two weeks ago we launched the newest version of our award-winning Outlook add-in, Bells&Whistles – version 4 features even more customization options than before, a more complete user experience (with the help of various types of email profiles) and better integration in Outlook.

Here’s how Bells&Whistles handles the different email profiles each user defines, how it actually works when compared to the last version and a couple of useful tips, both for our new and our existing users. Read more: A walkthrough to the new Bells&Whistles email profiles features

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Microsoft’s Exchange server allows for many more customization options and is a really good and flexible tool for larger companies, but since it’s a rather costly solution (since you’ll probably need a network admin as well, to deal with the myriad of options), we’ll look on how you can redirect and send on behalf from Auto Reply Manager. Read more: Make your life easier with the "send on behalf of" feature of Auto Reply Manager

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I’m positive that meetings are lost, relatives are not picked up at the airport, the cat doesn’t get its shot and all manner of problems appear because of not paying attention to the email’s subject line. It’s not that difficult to take a little time to compose a decent one that will grab your recipients’ attention and stand out in the “Inbox crowd”, so here’s a couple of dos and donts! Read more: How to write a good email subject line | 2 Comments

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Not many people know that you can perform a mail merge campaign without any additional, 3rd party software installed – the only programs needed are Microsoft Outlook and Word. If you just want to send a generic newsletter to a select contact list from Outlook then it will probably suffice, but what about a larger, more dynamic user base? What if you have your mail merge address list outside Outlook, saved in a different file? And here we come to this week’s topic: what if you want to add an attachment to the mail merge campaign? Here’s how to insert personalized attachments to your newsletters and email blasts! Read more: How to add an attachment to a mail merge email in Outlook | 4 Comments

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