I posted recently about how to view Internet Mail in Outlook 2007, and I didn’t want to leave out all of the people who have Office 2003.

This trick is handy if you want to see how a piece of email came to you, the exact servers that did the sending and receiving, along with their IP addresses, and what address it was sent to.

To get all of this great information, you just have to read through the Internet headers of the message. To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2003:

1. Double click the message so that it opens in its own window.

2. Then, in the toolbar, click on View > options.

3. You will be greeted with the “Message Options” dialog. There is a section near the bottom of the window titled “Internet Headers”. The section is highlighted in Red in the picture below.

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Here are the instructions for Outlook 2003.

This seems really silly, but I end up forgetting how to do this, and then I have to go poking around for a good while before I find it again.

This trick is handy if you want to see how a piece of email came to you, the exact servers that did the sending and receiving, along with their IP addresses, and what address it was sent to.

To get all of this great information, you just have to read through the Internet headers of the message. To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2007:

1. Double click the message so that it opens in its own window.

2. Then, in the toolbar ribbon, click the little arrow on the bottom right of the options section. You can see its location in the picture below.

3. Once you click the arrow, you will be greeted with the “Message Options” dialog. There is a section near the bottom of the window titled “Internet Headers”. The section is highlighted in Red in the picture below.

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Yesterday I showed you an Easy way to Schedule a future post in WordPress, and although I’m sure that you are busily creating posts for the next 4 years, I thought I would share this with you.

The problem I have with future posts is that I want to link to them in other future posts. This is especially helpful if you are writing a series of posts and want to point your readers to the first post in the series.

Well, I figured out that doing this is almost as easy as automatically posting in the future is.

Step 1: In another browser window or tab, go into your WordPress site Administration, and click on Manage.

Step 2: Click on the “view” option next to the post you want to link to.

Step 3: Copy the URL.

Didn’t I say that it was simple?

One warning though, if you are using the “Date and Name based” option for your URLs, and you change the date of the post, then the link will be broken.

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Here is a really easy way to have completed posts get published at a future date. Also, how to check what is scheduled to be posted, and when it will be posted.

When I first started blogging, I posted like crazy for about 2 weeks, and then noting for months. Now, I try to post something every day, or almost every day, this way I can just stay in the habit.

The problem that I run into is that sometimes I might fire off 3 or 4 posts in one day, and then after that, I may work on a more involved post for several days. When I was still using Blogger, what I would do is just save the extra posts as drafts, and then publish them on the day that I didn’t have anything else.
The problem with this is that I would forget to publish them. WordPress makes it incredibly easy to automate this task.

Scheduling a post to be published on a future data and time
Note: This works a lot better if your time zone settings in WordPress are set up correctly.

Step 1: Write, edit and otherwise prepare your post. Whatever you do that makes your writing magical, do it now. Just make sure you are happy with the post, because you may not see it again until it hits the front page.

Step 2: If you are using a 3rd party editor, save the post to your blog as a draft. If you are editing it in WordPress, click “save and continue editing”.

Step 3: In the right hand column, expand “time stamp” and change it to the date that you want to post to appear. Once you have changed the time andor date, the “Edit time stamp” box should check itself (before it wrecks itself).

Step 4: Click the Publish Button.
Yea, that’s it. Now the post will show up on the front page at the time you specified.

Checking to see what is scheduled to be posted, and when
Now that you have scheduled your blogs next 3 months of posts, I’m sure that you would like to know how to see when things are going to be posted. Here are two ways to do it.

The first method: Just go into the site’s administration, and click on “Manage”. Anything with a date in the future, which is not also listed in your “drafts” section at the top of this page, is going to be posted on the date listed. In the picture below, all of the posts in the red box will be posted at the date listed.

The second method: This one is a little harder to figure out when they are being posted, but you won’t get confused with posts that are drafts.

Once you get into site administration, click on “Dashboard” if it isn’t already highlighted. In the “Latest Activity” box, there will be a section titled “Scheduled Entries”. This will list the post title, and the amount of time (roughly) before it is posted. In the picture below, you can see that I have 3 posts scheduled to be posted.

Now, the next tip is how to link to WordPress blog posts that are scheduled to be published.

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