Yes, it is a great site (for OE users) and as you found it doesn't reference Outlook in anyway. This is mainly because they are two vastly different programs. There are many sites which offer help on using Outlook, either just generally, or more specifically on separate topics. Depending on your needs there are probably many features of Outlook you may never use, but it certainly can become an excellent "organizer" for you personally and your research. Here are some sites which offer tips and "how to's". They are in no particular order of preference: http://outlook-tips.net/index.html http://www.techtutorials.info/emoutlook.html http://go.cas.psu.edu/howto/HowToList.cfm?Cat=Outlook http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/index/category/106 http://tinyurl.com/638ym http://techhelp.berlinwall.org/www/email/outlook/Default.asp http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-vis/outlook_basics.html To protect your Outlook files there is an excellent program called Outback Plus. This is an essential step to do particularly if you have accumulated a lot of research messages. For Outlook Express users, this company also has a similar program available for you to: http://www.ajsystems.com/ You asked about messages you have deleted. Well, as with anything you delete on your computer all that happens is that Windows knows that the space occupied by that file can now be written over when needed. The actual file still exists but doesn't "show" on any listing. Whether it gets written over today, tomorrow or in a month's time you will never know. Even then experts using the right technique can still find the remnants of files "deleted" long ago. You have probably read news reports of that happening in criminal cases. Yes, Powermarks is great for organizing favourites/bookmarks. I have literally hundreds of genealogical ones saved as well as a couple of thousand others. No need to wade through folders or spend time organizing where a new one has to be saved - Powermarks doesn't need that. Anyone who wants to make life easier should be using Powermarks: http://www.kaylon.com/power.html Lance -----Original Message----- From: Marie Peer [mailto:peer@mindspring.com] Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:10 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] INSIDEOE and INSIDEO I read the INSIDEOE site. Good stuff. Is there a similar site for Outlook? I tried the same address for just Outlook and didn't find anything. This is genealogically related since 95% of all email I send and receive (minus spam) is genealogically related to research or sharing information or learning about genealogy. I often move messages to folders within Outlook for reading when I have time particularly from Rootsweb lists and from the Legacy users list etc and I wonder if those I've deleted in Outlook are really not deleted but are taking up disc space and slowing down the program. I will keep looking through search engines but tomsterdam doesn't seem to have a section for Outlook. Sidenote: AND Thank you, Lance!! Mailwasher really HAS cut way down on spam. It did take awhile as you said, but wow!! How nice!! AND I don't know how I could live without PowerMarks!! I used to physically copy websites, transfer them into word files for categories such as Military, Obituaries, Vital Records, names of states with their archives or other related information, DAR sites, etc... and then enter a description. I could find things, but what a long painful convoluted way to store websites!! Power marks does in about 30 seconds what it used to take me about 15 minutes to do before!! Thank you again, Lance!! My research has moved into the 20th Century thanks to you and PowerMarks!!! Thank you so much for your help. Marie --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0433-3, 2004-08-13 Tested on: 14/08/2004 10:07:33 AM avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

Thank you so much, Lance! I used to use OE but decided to try Outlook. I thought maybe Outlook might lend itself better to handling email that I send and receive for genealogical purposes. So far, I've found that both work well for how I use them but I'm thinking about this further and appreciate tools and ways of using them that I'd not know about. Thank you!! Marie -----Original Message----- From: Lance [mailto:hty31b5@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:08 PM To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Gen-Comp-Tips] INSIDEOE and INSIDEO Yes, it is a great site (for OE users) and as you found it doesn't reference Outlook in anyway. This is mainly because they are two vastly different programs. There are many sites which offer help on using Outlook, either just generally, or more specifically on separate topics. Depending on your needs there are probably many features of Outlook you may never use, but it certainly can become an excellent "organizer" for you personally and your research. Here are some sites which offer tips and "how to's". They are in no particular order of preference: http://outlook-tips.net/index.html http://www.techtutorials.info/emoutlook.html http://go.cas.psu.edu/howto/HowToList.cfm?Cat=Outlook http://tutorials.beginners.co.uk/index/category/106 http://tinyurl.com/638ym http://techhelp.berlinwall.org/www/email/outlook/Default.asp http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-vis/outlook_basics.html To protect your Outlook files there is an excellent program called Outback Plus. This is an essential step to do particularly if you have accumulated a lot of research messages. For Outlook Express users, this company also has a similar program available for you to: http://www.ajsystems.com/ You asked about messages you have deleted. Well, as with anything you delete on your computer all that happens is that Windows knows that the space occupied by that file can now be written over when needed. The actual file still exists but doesn't "show" on any listing. Whether it gets written over today, tomorrow or in a month's time you will never know. Even then experts using the right technique can still find the remnants of files "deleted" long ago. You have probably read news reports of that happening in criminal cases. Yes, Powermarks is great for organizing favourites/bookmarks. I have literally hundreds of genealogical ones saved as well as a couple of thousand others. No need to wade through folders or spend time organizing where a new one has to be saved - Powermarks doesn't need that. Anyone who wants to make life easier should be using Powermarks: http://www.kaylon.com/power.html Lance -----Original Message----- From: Marie Peer [mailto:peer@mindspring.com] Sent: Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:10 To: GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] INSIDEOE and INSIDEO I read the INSIDEOE site. Good stuff. Is there a similar site for Outlook? I tried the same address for just Outlook and didn't find anything. This is genealogically related since 95% of all email I send and receive (minus spam) is genealogically related to research or sharing information or learning about genealogy. I often move messages to folders within Outlook for reading when I have time particularly from Rootsweb lists and from the Legacy users list etc and I wonder if those I've deleted in Outlook are really not deleted but are taking up disc space and slowing down the program. I will keep looking through search engines but tomsterdam doesn't seem to have a section for Outlook. Sidenote: AND Thank you, Lance!! Mailwasher really HAS cut way down on spam. It did take awhile as you said, but wow!! How nice!! AND I don't know how I could live without PowerMarks!! I used to physically copy websites, transfer them into word files for categories such as Military, Obituaries, Vital Records, names of states with their archives or other related information, DAR sites, etc... and then enter a description. I could find things, but what a long painful convoluted way to store websites!! Power marks does in about 30 seconds what it used to take me about 15 minutes to do before!! Thank you again, Lance!! My research has moved into the 20th Century thanks to you and PowerMarks!!! Thank you so much for your help. Marie --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. 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I hope this is not "off topic" I recently changed from OE 5 to OE 6 and since then a couple of friends have sent me attachments with family tree information on them and OE won't let me open them because a message comes up saying "OE removed the following unsafe attachments in your mail" and named the attachments. Both parties who sent me the emails have assured me their Computers are safe and I have had no trouble before when they sent me attachments which was before I put in OE 6. HELP Marie

There is a setting that allows you to recieve and open attachments. In Outlook Express, click the Tools menu, Select Options Select the security tab. Remove the checkmark from in front of the statement: "Do not allow attachments to be saved or opened that could potentially be a virus." It seems that Microsoft is trying to protect us from ourselves. Alfred D. Eller RootsMagic-Users-Admin@RootsWeb.com ================ ============== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Young" <heartseas@bigpond.com> To: <GEN-COMP-TIPS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 10:03 PM Subject: [Gen-Comp-Tips] OE 6 > I hope this is not "off topic" > I recently changed from OE 5 to OE 6 and since then a couple of friends have > sent me attachments with family tree information on them and OE won't let me > open them because a message comes up saying "OE removed the following unsafe > attachments in your mail" and named the attachments. > Both parties who sent me the emails have assured me their Computers are safe > and I have had no trouble before when they sent me attachments which was > before I put in OE 6. > HELP > Marie > >