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Set Your RSS Options in Office Outlook 2007

In the previous chapter, we talked a bit about RSS feeds. These contain digital content frequently updated by Web sites, blogs, and other Internet locations. It’s a great way for people to distribute information in a standard format, and you can read RSS feeds in a couple of ways. One is through Windows Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista (covered in the previous chapter); others are through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and the Windows Sidebar (through the addition of a gadget that contains the feed you want, as explained in Chapter 14).

Since we haven’t covered RSS feeds in Outlook 2007 yet, we’ll do that here. When you subscribe to a feed, a new folder is automatically created in your Mail folders ...