Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express Tips and Tricks:

o Did you know that you can view ongoing email conversations by quickly changing view in Outlook and Outlook Express? Select a message in your in-box, click on "View", point your cursor to "Current View" and then click "Group Messages by Conversation". You'll see all messages with that particular person and they'll be organized in a nice, neat thread!

o Worried about a virus? First off, NEVER open an attachment before virus checking it. Also consider using "Chilton Preview" rather than Outlook's built-in preview pane. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/8392/

Microsoft Outlook's AutoPreview lets you see just first three lines of messages. It also leaves you susceptible to malicious code in html messages. "Chilton Preview" is a tiny add-on that puts a whole third pane on your Outlook window, to let you scroll through entire messages without opening them. It reads plain text equivalent of HTML messages so it does not leave you vulnerable to malicious code in HTML mail.

o You can have Outlook and Outlook Express quickly add any email addresses to your Address Book. Just open any incoming message then right-click on name you want to add. Then click on "Add to Address Book".

Outlook and Outlook Express keyboard Shortcuts:

o Press F3 to perform an advanced find. o Ctrl-Q will mark a message as read. o Ctrl-K matches text typed into TO field with an existing contact.

Outlook Add-ons you may want to try...

I received one a couple of hours ago that had a pretty good offer in it, one that I a least was willing to check out further. It was a network marketing program that was in Pre-Launch and I had not heard of it before, so it appeared to be pretty new. The email had no name on it either in body or in "From" line. All it had was a URL to web site.

So off I went to web site. The home page was well done and it described a typical network marketing program. There was no identification on home page as to who sponsor was nor was there any specific information about company other than its name. I spotted a link entitled "About Us" and clicked on that.

Nothing there either in respect to name of individuals running business, where it was located or how to contact them. You would think that on a page titled "About Us" you would see that type of information. But all this page had on it was a description of a network marketing company, in generic terms.

So I checked out page "Terms of Membership" and that page was also void of any contact information. I did note that company was probably in Texas since part of agreement indicated that ......would be governed by laws of State of Texas.

I checked out every page and they were all void of any identification of people running program. Even "Contact Us" page had a input form to send them a message rather than listing an actual email address.