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nt1. ShareO for Outlook

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ntShareO for Outlook is a utility that makes it easy to share Outlook data with others. Outlook has native capabilities for sharing things like contacts and calendars, but sharing generally requires a compatible E-mail account. ShareO is designed to allow you to share folders, contacts, calendars, etc. with your contacts, even if you do not have an Exchange mailbox.

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ntThe software is an add-in for Outlook 2010 and integrates neatly into the Outlook toolbar. Unfortunately, the current version does not seem to work with Outlook 2013.

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ntShareO for Outlook sells for $34.95, but a 14-day free trial is available for download.

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nt2. vCard Wizard for Outlook

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ntvCard Wizard for Outlook is a utility that is designed to export your contacts to vCard format. The software can create a separate vCard for each contact, or it can group all of your contacts into a single vCard.

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ntvCard Wizard for Outlook is designed to work as an Outlook add-in, but there is also a Start menu option that can be used to launch vCard Wizard. Clicking this icon launches Outlook and opens vCard Wizard.

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ntvCard Wizard for Outlook costs $12.95, but a free 14-day trial is available for download.

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nt3. Active Desktop Calendar

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ntActive Desktop Calendar isn’t an Outlook add-in, but rather a utility that might best be thought of as an Outlook supplement. Active Desktop calendar is a standalone application that displays a calendar on your Windows desktop. However, it is possible to link Active Desktop Calendar to Outlook so that items from the Outlook calendar are displayed directly on your desktop.

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ntActive Desktop Calendar costs $29.00, but a free 42-day trial is available for download.

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nt4. X1 Professional Client

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ntX1 Professional Client is a desktop search application that is specifically designed to work with Outlook.

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ntThe thing that makes X1 Professional Client so cool is that it has a full view of your mailbox, contacts, calendar, etc. In fact, you can use X1 Professional to read and reply to messages. Of course this utility’s real power is in its search capabilities. Search results are divided into a series of tabs. For example, you can search for messages, sent items, contacts, messages with attachments, and much more.

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ntX1 Professional Client sells for $49.95, but a free 14-day trial is available for download.

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nt5. Win2PDF

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ntOne of my favorite features in Office 2010 and Office 2013 is the ability to save Office documents as PDF files. For whatever reason though, Microsoft did not include this capability in Outlook. Outlook lets you save messages, but you cannot save them in PDF format. This is where Win2PDF comes into play.

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ntWin2PDF is not designed specifically for use with Outlook, but it is a great Outlook compliment. The software is essentially a print driver that sends documents to a PDF file rather than to a printer. In essence this means that anything that you can print can be turned into a PDF. In the case of Outlook, this means that you could turn things like E-mail messages and contacts into PDF files.

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ntWin2PDF costs $35, but a free trial version is available. The trial version is fully functional and does not expire, but adds an extra page to each PDF file that you create.

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ntAlso read:

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• nttHow do I add an IMAP Google connection to Microsoft Outlook 2010?

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• ntt10 Outlook defaults you can customize to work the way YOU want

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• nttView web pages inside Outlook

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