Birmingham, West Midlands -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/22/2011 -- Blueberry has released BB Outlook Tools, a freeware plugin which adds a number of additional features to Microsoft Outlook:

- Reply with Attachments
- Tidy Contact Numbers
- Save Attached Files
- Signature Correction

Microsoft Outlook is the leading and probably best known desktop email client in the world. It comes with a comprehensive range of tools which allow the user to read emails, schedule appointments, take notes, manage contacts, and so on.

For most users, MS Outlook, straight out of the box, is quite sufficient. But there are a number of add-ons/plugins available on the Internet that can improve the functionality of MS Outlook and make it a much more rewarding experience.

BB Outlook Tools is one such program, which was initially developed by Blueberry to improve in-house communication, and has proved so useful that it is now being offered as a free download to its website visitors.

What It Does:

Reply with Attachments
Do you find yourself working on a shared document via email? It can be quite tedious to keep saving the document, editing it and sending it back. This tool makes this process a lot simpler.

The normal way of dealing with attached docs in Outlook is to download / open the attachment, make the changes, save/rename it, and then reply to the original email with the edited document re-attached.

The ‘Reply with Attachments’ feature simply creates a reply with the original attachments still present. So you can press ‘Reply with Attachments’, edit the attachments, and send. There are no intermediate steps, making it much, much quicker.

Tidy Contact Numbers
It's not unusual for the phone details of contacts in Outlook to be saved in a variety of different ways. For example as: 6123232323232, 0905 848 0011, 1948 663000, +44 (0) 121 285 0100, and so on. These varying formats mean the numbers can't be used internationally without a bit of re-editing.

Blueberry’s Outlook Tool tidies the contact phone numbers into a single unified format, so they can be used from any country without having to make changes. The tidied phone numbers can also be used in computer telephony and other systems being synchronized.

Save Attached Files
This feature saves all incoming email attachments into a specified folder automatically when they arrive.

Moreover, when an attachment name appears to be duplicated (for example, if a document is being updated with each subsequent email), the feature changes its name by adding a sequential numeric suffix. This allows all attachments to be saved to one location, complete with their change history.

Signature
The signature feature corrects an issue reported in the standard signature feature of MS Outlook. Some versions of MS Outlook overwrite the contents of a newly composed email if the insert signature function is used to add a signature at the end of the email. BB OL Tools fixes this problem.

BB OL Tools uses the same signature list as present in the standard Outlook file, and the signature inserts at the current cursor (caret) position.

BB OL Tools is a free program which can be downloaded from http://www.bbconsult.co.uk/Resources/BBOutlookTools.aspx