2/18/2023 0 Comments Text expansion in outlook![]() It is like grep, awk and curl on steroids for people who prefer graphical user interfaces. ![]() While this bothered me initially, I eventually found an amazing alternative that is much more powerful: Alfred.Īlfred is the leatherman multitool of utility apps. Unfortunately, Quick Parts is currently not available in the macOS version of Microsoft Outlook. Quick parts can also contain formatting and images and are an easy way to manage reusable content in Outlook. Quick parts then expands this name into the full description: Screenshot from įor example, you set your name to “byelong”, press F3 and let Outlook expand the name to a signature: Best regards, ![]() Instead of typing a long phrase (e.g., your signature containing your name, phone number and email address), you create a building block with a certain name. While it is unrealistic that such changes to the human interaction protocol will ever be universally accepted, there is something else a productivity-minded person can do in order to lose less time each day typing the same phrases over and over again. Greetings and signatures are perfect examples: some people even try to eliminate such “noise” from messages (for example, the “nohello”-movement). ![]() Emails and messages in general often consist of repeated content blocks that never change. ![]()
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