Outlook 2007 Quick Parts | Outlook Building Blocks

Do you have boilerplate or repetitive text that you use often in e-mail messages, but find yourself spending precious time searching for examples so you can cut and paste them into your messages? If so, here's a quick way to save these frequently used text snippets (named Quick Parts in MS-Outlook 2007 and later) and insert them into Outlook e-mail messages as simply as adding your signature.

 

Some examples of snippets that you may routinely use include:

• Directions
• Web logo
• Map
• Chain letter / Urban legend advisory
• Link policy
• Review policy

Email items you routinely send might include:

• Return policy
• Cancellation policy
• Privacy policy
• Awards
• Multiple signatures
• Answers to frequently asked questions
• Promotions

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Facebook's Makeover Is A Little Scary

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergsummed up the social network’s big F8 announcement this way: “We’re adding verbs.”

What he didn’t say was: We’re subtracting privacy.

At last year’s F8, Facebook launched a button. One year later, that “like” button looks positively primitive. Starting today, Zuckerberg announced that you won’t be able to just “like” a song, artist, movie, news story, exercise or recipe. You’ll listen to a song, buy concert tickets, watch a movie, read a news article, run a trail andcook a recipe.

Your entire life– and all your social interactions– will now be broadcast on Facebook.

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CNBC's Jim Cramer on SAP Stock: "Completely Ridiculous"

When “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer quizzed SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott about SAP’s stock price, Cramer got more than he bargained for as McDermott cranked the discussion up to a much higher level and explained that software has permanently displaced hardware as the driving force of innovation, growth, and value.

Cramer, befuddled as to why the share price of fast-growing global powerhouse SAP is trading at “historic low” multiples, had opened the program late last week with some thoughts on SAP, which “is doing fabulously, but the stock has been caught up in the vortex.”

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SAP, Google expand collaboration partnership, eye enterprise mashups

SAP and Google said Wednesday that they are expanding a partnershipto take large data sets and integrate them into Google Maps, Earth, Docs and other products. The news comes after SAP reported a solid second quarter and raised its outlook for the rest of the year.

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Personal MBA Summary

Josh Kaufman offers the Ten Big Ideas from his new book “The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”

His book isn’t easy to summarize: The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business is a distillation of 226 of the most important ideas in modern business practice. There are, however, a few big ideas and recurring themes that will help you understand why learning business is so important… and how to focus on learning useful business skills instead of useless academic theories.

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Google Launches 'Chromebook' PCs, Takes on Microsoft and Apple

"Macintosh, Windows, or Google?

Search engine giant Google finally unveiled the first 'Chromebook' notebooks at the Google I/O conference on Wednesday, laptop computers from manufacturing giants Samsung and Acer that use Google's Chrome operating system and will go on sale in June."

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Microsoft Buys Skype: What the Web Is Saying

Very few people saw a Microsoft deal for Skype coming, so when Om first reported that it was in the works, the idea was met with a lot of skepticism. Now that Microsoft has confirmed the deal and the price of $8.5 billion, the news is still leaving many scratching their heads. Others, however, say there is some wisdom in the move — although it still comes down to Microsoft making the deal work, which is far from a given.

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SAP joins the Google Apps Marketplace with SAP StreamWork

SAP joins the Google Apps Marketplace with SAP StreamWork

This is a guest blog post from David Meyer, senior vice president for On-Demand, Productivity and Sustainability Solutions at SAP, the leading business software vendor to more than 100,000 customers in over 120 countries.

SAP StreamWork brings together people and information - from the web, your desktop, or business systems - and applies structure to discussions with business tools including pro/con tables, SWOT analyses, and polls to drive fast, meaningful results. Think about how easy it can be to allocate resources, prioritize sales leads, or define new marketing campaigns in a single, well-organized location. With Google Apps integration, the SAP StreamWork environment will be joined with the tools you are already familiar with in the cloud.

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Looking Ahead: SAP Software in 2011

SAP Business ByDesign 2.6, SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0, and SAP enhancement package 1 for SAP CRM 7.0 are among the new products slated to appear in 2011.

We don’t need to look into a crystal ball to find out which new SAP products are slated to appear in 2011. We all know that major trade fairs and exhibitions such as CeBIT, SAPPHIRE, and SAP TechEd provide us with information about planned releases. But the smaller events shouldn’t be underestimated, either. For example, Peter Lorenz, executive vice president of Small and Midsize Enterprises (SME) at SAP, not only demonstrated SAP Business ByDesign on the iPhone to a select audience, but also presented a road map for software for the midmarket.

From enterprise content management systems and ERP software, through customer relationship management and on-demand solutions: Read on to find out what awaits you in 2011.

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Duet Enterprise Makes Its Debut

Duet Enterprise, a product jointly developed by SAP and Microsoft, enables users to operate SAP applications together with Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Launched today, the product further supports SAP’s overall co-innovation strategy.

In enterprise business systems, the fundamental goals of business units and IT organizations are often disparate. Business units are focused on driving growth and accelerating access to and the flow of information. IT organizations’ first priority, on the other hand, is to maintain efficient and secure business systems.

But in order to achieve business growth, greater integration between the two areas is required. Technology solutions must be able to support increased agility in business and enable timely access to information. That is where Duet Enterprise comes in. The product is intended for customers who use both SAP applications and Microsoft SharePoint and it aims to help business units and IT organization address their goals in an integrated, collaborative way. Duet Enterprise helps customers bridge the gap between the requirements of business users and the functionality that IT can deliver.

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