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Microsoft Office Tip — Urban Legend Alert

Excerpted from Microsoft.com 3 ways to keep in touch online

Excerpted from Microsoft.com article Find your way with mapping program

Find your way with mapping programs

Get to your destination quickly and easily with instant directions

From planning a cross-country road trip to printing directions to the new restaurant in town, mapping software and Web sites have made getting from point A to point B easier than ever.

Looking for a store or address in an unfamiliar area becomes a straightforward process when you can check the directions on your computer before leaving home. You also no longer have to wait until you get to the nearest tourist office for a map of the city you're visiting. Print maps at home before you leave and chart the major attractions, hotels, and restaurants in your destination.

Find addresses instantly online

Help children locate their home and neighborhood

Plan detailed trip or jogging routes with map software

Tailor maps to your family's requirements

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3 ways to keep in touch online

Try these communication tricks to stay in touch and on top of things

If you're anything like me, life is constantly throwing you curveballs. For a long time, I felt like I was trying to connect up with friends and colleagues but missing them by mere minutes. I never knew who was online unless I was inside an instant messaging program, and I wasn't effectively communicating to others what my availability was, either. Plus, sharing documents and files was often a problem due to the large size of the items I needed to send and receive.

That's when I started poking around to see how technology could help me stay more in tune with people. In this article, I'll show you a few tricks that I've found for keeping in touch more effectively with friends, colleagues, and family: online status symbols, shared calendars, and online workspaces. Even when you're in different time zones and on completely opposite schedules, these three items can make it seem like you and your pals are right next door.

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In the past, some companies encouraged their users to turn off the Reading Pane in Outlook to safeguard against virus infections. That memo probably went out in your office about the same time they started casual Fridays. While this may have been a concern in the early days of HTML e-mail content, today's Reading Pane isn't any more of a threat to the organization than khaki pants.

Why the fuss over HTML content? HTML is a Web format. If you've ever visited a Web page with some type of interactive content, chances are you've knowingly or unknowingly downloaded something to your local computer. HTML e-mails can work the same way—and therein lies the rub. Prior to Outlook 2003, previewing an HTML email in the Reading Pane would instruct the message to retrieve any necessary components, like graphics, from a Web server. Any time you download information from an untrusted source, you run the risk of infection or, at the very least, confirming for a junk e-mailer that your e-mail address is valid.

In Outlook 2007, images and other linked content in HTML messages are blocked by default, giving you the choice of whether or not to download them. If you wish to view the content, click the InfoBar at the top of the message and select Download Pictures. If you prefer a deeper level of protection, open the Trust Center from the Tools menu, then check the Read all standard mail in plain text box on the E-mail Security tab. This will display all messages in plain text along with an option in the InfoBar to revert back to the original HTML or Rich Text format.

For more information on Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, visit http://office.microsoft.com/outlook.

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