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Sunday, May 20, 2007

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Select Mulitiple Emails In Outlook With A Stylus

- Warner Crocker

OutlookselectHere’s a nifty tip from Josh Einstein via Lora Heiny via Craig Pringle. (That’s some lineage for a tip!) If you are using the stylus on a Tablet PC and need to select multiple emails in Outlook 2007 you can do so without having to press the Shift key. Here’s the tip:

Josh passed along a great tip. The cursor switches directions so that you can actually multi-select emails without having to use the Shift key.

  1. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007 in normal view mode
  2. Move cursor position to the left side of the mail envelope and the right side of the divider, and the cursor direction switches to point to the right.
  3. Now, drag the pen or mouse position down et voila! you can select multiple emails.

Of course it works on any PC, but as Craig says, this is an awesome aid on a Tablet PC.

 

 

 



Sunday, May 20, 2007 6:24:45 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
BTW, this also works for Windows Explorer in the list view: if you want to select several files and/or folders start pointing left of the first file/folder icon and drag down as much as you need.
doc_oli
Sunday, May 20, 2007 6:46:33 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I am wondering, when will Windows actually be able to use some of the basic stylus operations like in PocketPC/Windows Mobile? I mean, the tap-and-hold for contextual menu on WM is very very good. Tap-and-drag is so natural in WM, but yet, Tablet PC stylus operations are still very limited to mouse-based operations.

Would be good to use tap-and-drag to select list as naturally as WM is, that way both platform's operations are seemingly similar.
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