UPGRADING YOUR SKILLS WITH OUTLOOK

By Remy Lentzner

This book will help you master Outlook by examining its strengths and the additional features that enhance it.The management of contacts, email, calendar,tasks, notes and the principle of drag and drop between all these applications bring a real advantage in the daily use of data. In a business context, Outlook facilitates the organization of appointments or meeting requests through scheduling. This book is aimed at people who use Outlook more or less regularly, but who wish to optimise their daily work.
Enjoy your reading.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Rémy Lentzner has been an IT trainer since 1985. Specialized in mastering office automation tools, he supports companies in the professional training of their employees. Self-taught, he has several computer books to his credit.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Remylent
• Release date: Jul 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9782490275779

Book preview

Chapter 1

Outlook Environment

The Outlook working environment enables you to manage the contacts, the Emails, the tasks, the calendar, the folders and lots of features that enhance your daily work. The first important item is the contacts called People in the bottom menu. Sometimes, this menu may be compacted. We will see further how to change it.

1.1 The main folders

The Home menu is the main one where you can view the different available folders. For each account, Outlook provides several folders by default: Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items, Deleted Items, Junk Email, Outbox, RSS Feeds, and Search Folders. Other folders can be created. Each folder has properties that you can study thanks to the right-click.

Figure 1.1 shows this working environment. If you need to manage Emails, click on Mail on the bottom menu.

Figure 1.1 : The working environment

The list below describes the different options available in this bottom menu:

Mail. It is the Emails management feature.

Calendar. It is the classical calendar where you enter appointments. Data can be organized with color and Emails can be dragged into the calendar. Appointments are available in a multi-user's environment thanks to Microsoft Exchange.

People. It is the main menu allowing you to manipulate the contacts.

Tasks. It enables you to manage actions to be carried out in time, with a link to the Emails follow-up. Indeed, when you receive or send a message, you can define it with a flag that creates a