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How many times have you received an e-mail and needed to clarify something that would take too long to type, but could be accomplished in a quarter of the time with a call? But there wasn’t any phone number on … Continued
(Sung to the tune of the TV show Rawhide, also featured in The Blues Brothers movie.) ♫Scrolling. Scrolling. Scrolling. Keep them e-mails going. Gee my fingers swollen. Rawfingers.♫ Three questions: 1. Do you store e-mails in your Inbox? 2. Do … Continued
You’re on the road again…perhaps with Willie. As if your daily routine wasn’t messed up enough, you also have a gazillion e-mails to go through when you are in an unfamiliar territory. How can you possibly read and do something … Continued
Don’t you just love to receive lengthy e-mails only to have absolutely no idea whatsoever what you are supposed to do with them? By standardizing your group’s or company’s e-mail template, you no longer have to play Sherlock Holmes trying … Continued
How many Cc’ed e-mails do you receive that you shouldn’t? What do you do about them other than grumble and delete them (or worse, leave them in your Inbox)? You would never want to hurt someone’s feelings and tell them … Continued
Can you imagine the number of Cc e-mails that are being sent daily? “Billions and billions” as Carl Sagan would say. Before e-mail, it was estimated that a single document in a company was copied 19 times. Today, with the … Continued
Do you ever feel as if people are e-mailing you when what they should be doing is calling? Let’s face it. E-mail has gotten out of control almost as much as the IRS has. Well, maybe not that much but … Continued
When sending an e-mail in Outlook 2013, do you ever find that when you want to make a last minute change to your Word attachment, the Word document opens up (in the Reading view) with the Ribbon area on top … Continued
How can you abuse e-mail? Let me count the ways. Sending jokes, copying everyone in the known universe, playing e-mail tag, and e-mailing rather than calling are just a few. The following are the main reasons to send an e-mail: … Continued
When you were making a list of what you wanted for Christmas last year, did you by any chance ask Santa for more e-mails? Of course you didn’t. If you asked for anything (other than the Porsche), it would have … Continued