Home | Forums | Article Search | Subscribe & Shop | Contact Us | Log Out DS Development Bells & Whistles For Outlook 3.0 Email This Print This View My Personal Library Loading Zone June 2007 • Vol.7 Issue 6 Page(s) 80 in print issue Add To My Personal Library DS Development Bells & Whistles For Outlook 3.0 DS Development Bells & Whistles For Outlook 3.0 Bells & Whistles For Outlook $29.95 DS Development www.emailaddressmanager.com CPUs: 4 The aptly named Bells & Whistles for Outlook users is a keeper. Although all of its tools aren’t as equally beneficial, combined they flesh out Outlook very well. In particular, BW’s simplistic, yet handy, Notes utility may be worth forking over nearly 30 bones for alone. Enabled by default, Notes lets you jot down pertinent data in a sticky note-like area that’s inserted straight on the message. Say you and Bill are exchanging dozens of messages concerning a project you’re working on. A Note lets you insert, “Final draft due Wednesday,” for example. Open the message, there’s the note. Further, you can also plant a Notes column in Outlook’s reading pane next to From, Subject, Receive, etc. and see the same text. This type of common sense convenience turns up a lot in BW, which isn’t too surprising considering IT and programming vets created BW. DS Development is located in Romania, and there are some definite lost-in-translation moments, but BW looks and feels like something hard-core emailers built for hard-core emailers. For example, during configuration you can set alerts for instances when you omit attachments, a Subject line, and specific addresses. You can also apply varying Reply rules to different profiles (work vs. personal); number replies; enable automatic Reply greetings; force HTML or Plain Text formats in replies; create multiple signatures; perform mail merges; and much more. Power users will find little use for BW’s 30-plus bundled templates, but creating, categorizing, and accessing your own via keyboard shortcuts and a toolbar in messages takes only minutes. Also slick is BW’s Send/Resend options and Add-in Utility, which lets you enable/disable all your Outlook add-ins. Resend is a new tool in this version. It’s a great time-saver; just highlight or right-click a message in the Send folder and click Send Again or Edit And Send. You can also send traffic messages to specific recipients from designated profiles and auto-attach a reply address different than the one you’re sending from. BW makes all this, plus control over 50-plus attachment extensions, available from an unobtrusive two-button toolbar. This unobtrusiveness, combined with BW’s productivity-increasing tools, makes for a solid Outlook add-in that performed wonderfully for me. by Blaine Flamig  User Reviews Be the first to write a review of this product Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this article? Type a word or phrase that identifies the topic and click "Search" to find relevant articles from within our editorial database. Enter A Subject (key words or a phrase): ALL Words (‘digital’ AND ‘photography’) ANY Words (‘digital’ OR ‘photography’) Exact Match ('digital photography'- all words MUST appear together) Home      Copyright & Legal Information      Privacy Policy      Site Map      Contact Us Copyright © 2010 Sandhills Publishing Company U.S.A. All rights reserved.