4th July 2001

I look for every shortcut I can find because every second or two saved is another I can spend playing with Sprocket. One trick that not only saves time, but frustration as well, is the natural language support built into Outlook. No more digging for a calendar trying to figure out what the date is next Tuesday or the date that Thanksgiving falls on this year. For dates, you can simply type in "next thursday" and watch Outlook fill in the appropriate date. This works great for holidays like "halloween" or "veterans day", too. Even "Boxing Day" works! Times work in a similar fashion with terms like "noon" and "midnight", or by specifying time in word format, such as "two fifteen pm".