RSS Feed? What to do with it! ?!?!?!?!?

Subscribe to RSS Feeds found in Windows Internet Explorer

Subscribing to RSS Feeds from Windows Internet Explorer is the fastest and easiest way to add RSS Feeds to Outlook.

1. When you browse to a Web page that contains RSS information, appears next to the Home button.

2. Click .

A list of all available RSS Feeds on the Web page is displayed.

3. Click the RSS Feed that you want to add.
4. When the RSS Feed opens in Internet Explorer, click Subscribe to this feed.

The RSS Feed subscription is added to the Common Feed List (Common Feed List: A list of subscribed RSS Feeds that is saved with your Windows user profile. RSS clients, including Windows Internet Explorer and Outlook, use this list so that you do not have to configure subscriptions in each program.) in Windows. Your RSS Feed subscription is available in Internet Explorer, Outlook, and other programs which use the Common Feed List.

Tip On a Web page, you might see , or, . Usually, when you click these icons, you can view and subscribe to the RSS Feed.

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Manually enter a new RSS Feed subscription

To manually enter an RSS Feed subscription, you are required to enter the Web address (Web address: An address that specifies a location of an object, document, Web page, or other destination on the Internet or an intranet, for example: http://microsoft.com. Also known as Uniform Resource Locator (URL).).

1. Click the File tab.
2. On the RSS Feeds tab, click New.
3. In the New RSS Feed dialog box, type the URL of the RSS Feed. For example, http://www.example.com/feed/main.xml.

Tip In most Web browsers, on a Web page, you can right-click the RSS icon, and then copy the shortcut to the Clipboard. Press Ctrl+V to paste the information from the Clipboard into the RSS Feed location box.

4. Click Add.
5. Click OK.

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Subscribe to a RSS Feeds sent to you as an Outlook RSS Feed sharing message

1. When you receive an RSS Feed sharing invitation, click Add this RSS Feed.

You can click the button at the top the Reading Pane, or if you open the message, on the Share tab, in the Open group, click Add this RSS Feed.

2. Click OK to confirm the addition of the RSS Feed.

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Import a collection of RSS Feeds from an OPML file

Outlook 2010 supports the .opml file format for exchanging a collection of RSS Feeds and sharing configuration information between programs that can organize and display RSS Feeds.

1. Click the File tab.
2. On the Open tab, click Import.
3. Select Import RSS Feeds from an OPML file.
4. Click Next.
5. Click Browse to specify where the file you want to import is located, and then click Open.
6. Click Next.
7. 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 of the check boxes.

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

8. Click Next.