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Make Gmail act like Outlook with these two quick tips

Whether you willingly moved from Outlook to Gmail, or you???ve been forced to move as part of your employer???s use of Google Apps, the transition can be a little jarring. In this week???s TR Dojo episode, I show you how to make Gmail act more like Outlook with two quick tips.

Does your company use any Google Apps (Gmail, Docs, Voice, etc.)? Take the poll and let me know:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/itdojo/make-gmail-act-like-outlook-with-these-two-quick-tips/2830

I am only seeing about 2 minutes 30 seconds of the video but below the video it says it should be a bit over 6 minutes long.

Jeff

Same here

Sorry for the incomplete video. Something happened with the encoding process prevented the full video from appearing on the site. We should have the complete episode up shortly.

The was a problem with our video encoder that cut off the last half of the video. The complete episode is now live. Again, sorry for the problem.

the '07 version really. sigh. we're so far behind the times, it's like looking at an antique mrror or something.

Had to swtch from my iPad2 to my Transformer to view.

Not bad.
Now we need one o make Outlook work like Gmail

The biggest complaint I get is that gmail had no preview pane. Any way to activate one?

What's the 2nd tip?

I use T-Bird (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/) to access Gmail. Additionally Gmail consolidates my yahoo and verizon email accounts so I access all three using T-Bird, also my Google calendar is available in T-Bird. IMAP enables me to access email from any computer with access to the web. T-Bird also has a preview window.

Neither Chrome nor IE9 presented the entire video

seems this half of the instruction was missed?

Really? make gmail like outlook? That;s funny, I gave up outlook for gmail and haven't regretted it one email!!!

Why would anyone want to make gmail work like outlook?

Bill,
Sorry about your video issues.

Regardless, you almost always include a 'text version' of the video that I am extremely thankful for. The ability to copy and paste this to a Word Doc is extremely valuable to me.

Please keep up the good work.

The video cuts off at 2:32 and looks like there is more information.

Anxiously waiting...

Does the Duhjo actually use software or just read about it?

If you want gmail to look like outlook, simply use an outlook pop3 account to download your gmail e-mail to outlook. You can leave downloaded email on the server indefinitely (not recommended) or for a length of time, like, the amount of time you typically are away from the office, so you can access your mail on-line. Of course, this works for any stand-alone email client, not just outlook.

So using Outlook to get Gmail may not be an option for a lot of people.

Granted if your company moves to google apps, you are probably stuck with the google calendar. I would also think that you would quickly adapt to the google interface, since we are only talking about e-mail here.

I have a student e-mail account that is strictly google apps. The pop3 download works the same way. I'm not sure if you can sync your google calendar, etc. to outlook because I don't use them. (Note to self: check that out). I would think that if you want your PIM to look like outlook, you would use outlook, and if you want your PIM to work like gmail, you'd use gmail apps.

Here's the url:http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/messaging.html#utm_medium=et&utm_source=calendar-en-ui&utm_campaign=crossnav

Interoperability

Sync your Microsoft Outlook calendar with Google calendar.

Pls put snapshots of changes required. It makes it more easy.
Thanks

I use Outlook on my PC, including the calendar. I have a Gmail account which I use to maintain my mobile phone Contacts list. My Gmail account 'imports' my Outlook emails. My Outlook calendar is synchronised with the Google calendar. My phone (Android 2.3) can then sync. the Contacts, email and Calendar so I'm always up to date everywhere.

This is what the technology was invented for.

Is it possible to run the filter on messages that came in previously to when your created the filter? I like this feature of Outlook

I'm sorry but I am missing something here. I have not bothered to read the article, comments, or viewed the video, but I am really curious about something. Why in the world would anyone want to ruin gmail by making it act like outlook???

To those who wonder why, becuase Outlook uses all the STANDARD methods of sorting etc. Which even with these "tips" don't happen. The standard sort by which ever column you want doesn't exist and labels etc is a BS way around it. Simply put Google doesn't sort. I use Gmail for a personal mail but would NEVER for business. ANY E-mail client offer the basics first put out for desktops by Eudora for the PC and Microsoft for the Mac in the late 1980's. If you have a problem with Outlook then you have a problem with mail sorry to say.

How can I create detailed rules like outlook, because we cannot filter mass mailers as spam. Actually they have a different mail id everytime, but they have a common source email id, but a different sender id which changes everytime and they deliberately spam Gmail boxes

Thanks for your informative video.

Is there a way to automagically convert/import Outlook Rules to Gmail Filters?

I have too many rules. I guess if I just open Outlook (when I get back to the office where I have my Outlook client!), everything will get pushed through those rules as it comes in, right?