Quick Templates for Outlook

Add-in Quick Templates for Outlook is designed for fast insertion of text templates into Microsoft Outlook 2000,2002(XP),2003 mail messages. It will help you with entering frequently repeated text fragments, save the time you spend on message writing, and you will have no more misprints in your messages. Quick Templates plugin is a very useful tool for technical support officers, sales personnel and all other people who make an extensive use of email in their work.

You will have to write and format your text only once and then you can insert it in mail messages of any type (HTML, RTF, plain text) repeatedly. the Quick Templates keeps all the text parameters and formatting unchanged, which allows you to create lots of various headings, signatures, phrases, or any other text blocks, lines, or words you use frequently in your correspondence.

With the Quick Templates plugin you can create a template list and insert the text from template into a message by a single mouse click or through a hotkey you can set for each template individually.

Figure 1: Quick Templates for Outlook

Figure 1: Quick Templates for Outlook

Figure 2: Edit text of the template

Figure 2: Edit text of the template

Figure 3: Toolbar in MS Word (when Word is used as an email editor)

Figure 3: Toolbar in MS Word (when Word is used as an email editor)

Figure 4: Templates menu in Outlook

Figure 4: Templates menu in Outlook

Show display picture from MSN Messenger

When viewing an email, Outlook 2007 shows an image of the sender. Currently this only works if the sender is already in your contact list and has an image assigned to the contact card. Although this is a really nice feature, inserting the picture to each contact is time consuming and if you have hundreds of contacts, you definitely don’t want to go through each one of them.

Outlook has been providing a nice integration with MSN Messenger for a while. It is capable of showing the status of email recipients marked with a little color icon indicating their status (green if available, red if busy, etc).

In a similar fashion, Outlook should be able to make use of the display picture from MSN Messenger and show it on the email message should the sender cannot be found in the contact list.

Figure 1: Outlook 2007 now shows the image of the sender

Figure 1: Outlook 2007 now shows the image of the sender

Figure 2: Contact card with image attached

Figure 2: Contact card with image attached

Figure 3: MSN Messenger already has Display Picture capability

Figure 3: MSN Messenger already has Display Picture capability