Some time ago I recommended a friend to start using the ‘Rules and Alerts’ feature from MS-Outlook check incoming emails for certain words and subsequently assigning the email to categories.
This worked very well until he started using MS-Outlook 2007. The same rules suddenly no longer worked.
After some puzzling I found that outlook has a built in rule called -Clear categories on mail (recommended)-. When new rules are created by the user this built in -clear categories- rule moves down one step in the rules list. Custom made rules are therefore executed first and the -clear categories- rule gets executed last. Consequently, all categories that are assigned by the custom rules get removed by the built in -clear categories- rule.
An easy workaround is to either remove the -clear category- rule or, perhaps better, move the rule manually to the first place in the list.
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In this electronic age most people try to limit the number of prints they make. Nevertheless, sometimes you need to print documents to: study, make notes on, or to take with you to a meeting. But what to do with the printed copies? Put them on a pile, or put them in a file system? I have been experimenting with a simple ‘Pile-File’ system that incorporates the advantages of both the Filing and the Piling.