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How to View Mail Grouped by Conversation Thread in Outlook
The rare and spiny argan tree's pits are impossible to digest for the goats that climb the trees to eat the yellow fruit. The pits are so hard that, collected from the goats' manure, it takes an ingenious process and a rugged rock's beating to get to the kernels. Roasted, the kernels meet the rock and grindstone, too, and later water, to separate the treasured argan oil from the argan kernel mash.
Now, to get to an email's hidden and maybe thorny parents is usually not quite so hard; Outlook can do all the searching, climbing, collecting, cracking and grinding:
›› Tired of searching for related messages to put the latest reply to a thread in context? Here's how to have Outlook collect all emails in a conversation — even from different folders — and show them in order.
| Smiley Fall - Free Email Stationery Download and E-Card
 In 1887, Ambrose Bierce improved punctuation with the "snigger point", '⏝', "to be appended [...] to every jocular or ironical sentence." It worked ⏝.
Today, you can add all kinds of iconic punctuation to your emails, of course, and you can have snigger points with eyes on yellow faces flying through them:
›› Send smileys, and send many! (Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook, Outlook Express)
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In Germany and Austria, 3:45 p.m. is "three quarters four" or "quarter to four"; 3:15 p.m. is "quarter past three" or "quarter four" — all depending on where you grew up. Depending on where you end up, you may do so confused and appointments missed.
Now, iPhone Mail does not get confused. It recognizes none of these "quarter" times; it does understand "3:45 p.m.", though, "May 18" and, say, "tomorrow at 5" for appointments to be made:
›› The invitation is in the mail. With iPhone Mail, it's easy to get it out, too, turning date and time mentioned in an email into calendar events with verve and swift finger.
| How to Streamline Conversations in Outlook
Sort, set and shine: if you haven't used something in the past month, sort it out; set up the workplace so that the remaining items are easily at hand; clean often, and shine every day before you leave. Sort, set and shine.
Outlook is pretty good at these first three of the five 'S's of 5S (a program — originating in Japan — for achieving an organized work environment), sorting out redundant emails, setting up the rest in order and shining conversations all around:
›› Why tolerate email folders and your mind littered with oodles of messages that are quoted elsewhere anyway? Here's how to have Outlook clean up automatically and move or delete redundant emails.
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