Working with the People Feature in Ms Outlook 2013

The Ms Outlook client has always

encompassed a proficient contacts module that allowed you to enter details of your contacts and create lists with ease. However with the Outlook 2013 edition, Microsoft has completely revamped the contacts module by adding a plethora of features and rechristened it as People. It can now link up to Social Networks, display a holistic view of a contact’s activities besides offering you the chance to clean up duplicate entries.  In this article we would look at some interesting tips to work with the People module in Outlook 2013.

Linking Contacts and their social profiles

Outlook allows you to link up your existing contacts with their social media profiles. For example if you have contact named Peter Smith then you can use the Social connector to link to his FaceBook ID. Once linked up, his picture and activities would be drawn out and showcased to you from a single view. Outlook would showcase suggested linkages to you and the feature can be used to eliminate any duplicate entries that you have made.

Directly Set Meetings and Send Email from the Contact screen

Using the new contact screen which can also be referred as the People pane, you can directly send out an appointment request or shoot out an email to the contact. You can also call up the contact or send a message to his social networking profile, in case you have linked up his account.

Classifying Frequently Used Contacts as Favorites

The People’s module allows you to mark the contacts that you regularly email or the ones you believe to be important as favorites. To mark a contact as Favorite you need to select the contact from the list then Right click on it and then click on the Add to Favorites option.

Use the Inline Edit and Search Features

In Outlook 2013, you can use the Inline edit feature to update contacts details with ease. Moreover Outlook would display updated details from different sources in the contact pane for your perusal. Once you have made a change just hit the save button to complete the process. The application also comes with a powerful search feature that helps you search contacts with ease. It even suggests you possible entries of a specified contact and encourages you to link them up.

Dealing with Incidents of PST corruption in Ms Outlook 2013

While the latest iteration of Outlook 2013 is without doubt a significant advancement over its predecessors, it still is vulnerable to PST corruption. Now if you wish to avoid a situation where your important emails and contacts are put to risk, you should always have an outlook repair tool like DataNumen Outlook Repair nearby. Powered by its intelligent recovery algorithm, this proficient tool can recover corrupt PST files within minutes and can even tackle files than run into multiple gigabytes. Moreover it can dig out PST files from backup files such as a Norton ghost image while maintaining the integrity of data.

Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/