Monday, April 26

Holy crap!

If you use Outlook and work somewhere where they restrict your space on the Exchange server (100 MB just doesn't cut it), have I got some news for you. John Durant used to be "one of us" at the Mills, but now works for big bad Microsoft as the Office Content Strategist and manager of the Office Developer Center team - what a mouthful! I was poking around his blog oh about 2 MONTHS AGO and sent him an e-mail, which he conveniently decided to reply to TODAY. It was great to hear from him (apparently he misses me), and he sent me a few links that changed my life forever.

I now find myself in a bit of a conundrum - if I tell you what the links are, you're going to accuse me of being a huge 700|. If I don't share them with you, then I am just plain mean. Or something. Right? I give up...

http://www.outlookcode.com
http://www.slipstick.com
http://www.microeye.com

You guessed it, these are all sites related to Outlook development. But seriously, some of the custom things you can do with Outlook VBA can make your life quite a bit easier - that is if you use Outlook in the first place. I have been using (and loving) 2 custom code snippets for the past few months - one that turns e-mails into tasks, and another that creates calendar appointments based on e-mails. The gem I found today was one that allowed me to easily save & remove attachments from messages I have received - attachments that take up a vast majority of the 100 MB quota I am forced to deal with every day of my life.

That's enough 700|$P3@|< for now, I best gets to steppin' as not to miss the first pitch of tonight's Twins/Bluejays game at the 'Dome. I wonder if it will be an ESPN Instant Classic? Just pray that it doesn't rain ;)

Now Playing: Blue Man Group - Audio

posted by Brad at 4/26/2004 06:04:00 PM | permalink |