Did you know you can get updates from millions of news websites and industry blogs in Outlook 2007? By subscribing to feeds, you can recieve updated information without visiting all your favorite websites individually.

Here’s how:

1. Find a website or a blog that you want to receive updates from. Look for the little orange icon with the “radio waves” on it like this: (we have one here on our blog, too, on the right side of the page). Click on that. Dont’ worry about what the page looks like, just copy the address out of the address bar at the top.
2. In Outlook 2007, you should have that same orange icon in your inbox folders on the left. It will be labeled as RSS feeds (RSS stands for real simple syndication). Right-click on that and choose to add a new feed.
3. A message will appear, choose to accept the feed.
4. There will be a plus (+) button next to RSS feeds. Click on it to expand it, and you’ll see your feeds listed below it.
5. When a feed updates with new information, it will look and behave like an unread email, and you can navigate and read your feeds just like emails. Unlike emails, however, you may want to delete old feed updates, instead of archive them.

Now you can pore through hundreds of web pages in only a few minutes! You don’t have to visit the web pages, they come to you.

Tags: outlook 2007, rss feeds

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