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Subscribe to an RSS feed
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Read RSS Feeds
SUBSCRIBE TO AN RSS
FEED
Discussion
RSS provides you with a way of automatically getting relevant and up-to-date information from a favourite website every time it is updated. Not only does it saves you the time and bother of having to check it manually for changes (even if it hasn’t changed), but it also helps you get to the latest information as soon as possible.
RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to. Think of it as subscribing to a monthly magazine that instead of being delivered by the postal service, is delivered to your RSS folder in Outlook.
Many websites offer RSS Feeds and most internet browsers now have the ability to discover and subscribe to RSS feeds. When you navigate to a website, you can usually tell if it contains an RSS feed by looking for the RSS icons: -
, or,
In the case of Internet Explorer (version 7 upwards), the icon lights up on the
Command Bar and when you click the down arrow to its right, you will see a list of feeds on that website.
You select the Feed that you want to subscribe to and on the page that follows, click the
Subscribe to this feed link. This adds it to the Common Feed List and makes it available not
only to Internet Explorer via the Favorites Center, Feeds tab but also to Outlook as a
subfolder to the RSS folder (you may have to check first that the appropriate setting is enabled in Outlook. See the procedures below).
There are also several Web sites on the Internet that maintain large listings of available RSS
Adding a Feed to the Common Feeds List
Feeds listed in Internet Explorer Favorites Center
Feed listed in Outlook RSS Feeds folder
Procedure
Enabling the Common Feed List in Outlook 1. Select the File tab.
2. Click Options.
3. Select the Advanced pane.
4. Under RSS Feeds, tick the Synchronize RSS Feeds to the Common Feed List
(CFL) in Windows.
5. Click OK.
Subscribing to a Feed if the Common Feed List is enabled in Outlook
1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Navigate to a website that contains feeds (eg. www.bbc.co.uk/news).
3. Click the View Feeds on this page drop down arrow on the Command
Bar. If no Command Bar is visible, right click the Title Bar and select Command
8. Switch back to Outlook. The RSS feed will appear as a subfolder under RRS Feeds
in the Navigation Pane.
Subscribing to a Feed if the Common Feed List is NOT enabled in Outlook
1. Follow steps 1 to 4 above.
2. Click into the address bar.
3. Right click and select Copy.
4. Switch back to Outlook.
5. Select the File tab. 6. Select Info.
7. Click the Account Settings button.
8. Click Account Settings….
9. Select the RRS Feeds tab.
10. Click New… .
11. Click into the Enter the location of the RSS feed you want to add to Outlook: box.
12. Press [Ctrl V] on the keyboard (Paste).
13. Click Add. 14. Click OK.
15. Click Close. The Feed will appear as a subfolder below RSS Feeds in the
Navigation Pane.
READ RSS
FEEDS
Discussion
To read RSS Feeds in Outlook 2010, you must subscribe to an RSS Feed as described in the previous topic of this lesson. Your RSS Feed subscriptions appear under the RSS Feeds folder in your Mail folders.
Procedure
2. In the message list, select a message. If you have the Reading Pane turned on, the contents of the selected RSS item are displayed. You can also double-click the item to display its contents.
NB. You can forward, delete, and flag the RSS item, just as you can any other email
message. However, you can’t reply to the sender.
Many RSS items are summaries of a larger article. A link to the full article is usually included in the body of the RSS item. To download the full item, do one of the following:
a. Click the link in the body of the RSS item.
b. In the Reading Pane, click the Info Bar, and then click View full article.
c. In the Reading Pane or in an open RSS item, click the Info Bar, and then click
Download/update all content.
d. The content is downloaded as an attachment titled Full article.htm. Double-
click the attachment to open it in your web browser or right-click the
attachment, click Save As, and then select the folder where you want to save
the attachment.
UNSUBSCRIBE FROM AN RSS
FEED
Discussion
When you cancel or unsubscribe from an RSS Feed, no new content is downloaded. You can choose whether to delete or keep all the content that was downloaded from the RSS Feed.
Procedure
1. In the Navigation Pane, expand the RSS Feeds folders.
2. Select the folder for the RSS Feed that you want to remove and press [Del] on the
keyboard.