After I posted the screenshots of check boxes in Windows Vista, Peter asked if check boxes are in Microsoft Outlook.
I could immediately picture check boxes in my Hotmail account, which save the day when deleting spam.

But even though Outlook is one of the top applications that I use, I could not picture whether there is a check box option that I could enable. Love the idea, though. So I opened Outlook, did a search - nope, couldn't find an option to turn on.
What to do? Ask Mr. Outlook -- Josh Einstein of TEO fame -- of course! Josh was on IM and within a minute he sent instructions to me on how to multiselect consequtive emails in Outlook and sent over a screenshot on what to look for. Thanks, Josh!


Josh passed along a great tip. The cursor switches directions so that you can actually multi-select emails without having to use the Shift key.

1. Open Microsoft Outlook 2007 in normal view mode
2. Move cursor position to the left side of the mail envelope and the right side of the divider, and the cursor direction switches to point to the right.
3. Now, drag the pen or mouse position down et voila! you can select multiple emails.

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