How to Add RSS feeds to your Outlook

How to Add RSS feeds to your Outlook

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way for content publishers to make news, blogs, and other content available to subscribers. You can add your favorite RSS Feeds as subscriptions in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. There are a couple of ways to add an RSS Feed.

Adding a single feed at a time

Copy the feed URL that you want to add to Outlook

Go to the RSS folder in Outlook and Right-Click the root

The following menu will appear:

Select the Add a New RSS Feed (Third choice from the top)

Paste the RSS URL in the following box

Important Tip: Outlook seems to like XML RSS Feeds the best so whenever possible select that type of feed. It will look like this: View Feed XML

If you don’t see that link, you can try adding ?format=xml to the end of their rss feed.

How to add a collection of RSS feeds

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 supports the .opml file format for exchanging a collection of RSS Feed configuration information between programs that can organize and display RSS Feeds. Such programs are known as RSS aggregators. Office Outlook 2007 includes the functionality of an RSS aggregator.

A collection of RSS Feeds is shared by exporting it to an XML file with the .opml file extension and sending the file to the other person. You can attach the .opml file in an e-mail message, copy the .opml file to a network shared folder that both people have access to, or copy the .opml file to removable media such as a disk, CD, or a memory device. The other person can then import the .opml file and choose which RSS Feeds to add to Outlook.

In Office Outlook 2007, a collection of RSS Feeds can be exported to a file with the .opml extenstion.

You can import a file with the .opml extension to Office Outlook 2007 or other RSS programs.

1. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2. Select Import RSS Feeds from an OPML file.
3. Click Next.
4. Click Browse to specify where the file to be imported is located, and then click Open.
5. Click Next.
6. Select the Feed name check box for each subscription that you want to import.
   

    

   Tip Click Select All or Clear All to quickly select or clear all check boxes.

   Note You are importing only the subscription information, not the actual items from the subscription.

7. Click Next.The .opml file is imported to Office Outlook 2007

How to export Your Google Reader RSS Collection as an OPML file

• Click the Manage Subscriptions link and click the Import/Export option
• click the Export Your Subscriptions as an OPML file
• Save the file to your local system
• Now you can import your Google Reader feeds into Outlook (all of them or selected feeds)