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Talking Tech

Improve Your Outlook

By JEFF RASCO

Our first use of Microsoft Outlook was in 1997, when we discovered it wrapped in relative obscurity within the release of Office 97. We were all happy to get the upgraded versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, but none of us really knew anything about the "Little Program That Could."

Back in the mid-90s, our e-mail was handled down in the basement somewhere, our calendars were in neat little spiral binders, to-do lists on scraps of paper, and contacts managed in bundles of business cards wrapped in rubber bands. Someone suggested managing our e-mail in Outlook, and we began to discover what a powerful program it can be.

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Short Takes

Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art last year debuted its Egyptian Galleries, the new centerpiece of the museum's refurbished Ancient Art Galleries. The highlight is an elaborate and complete funerary assemblage from the tomb of a 2,300-year-old noblewoman, Meretites. Visitors can view the inner coffin and outer coffin, both decorated with hieroglyphics and images of gods and goddesses. The mummy of Meretites is not in the collection, but the new display includes another mummy. For more information, call 816.751.1278.

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