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The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book

By : Barbara March
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The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book

By: Barbara March

Overview of this book

Microsoft Outlook, in tandem with Microsoft Exchange Server, provides a powerful environment for sharing information. This book will show you how to take advantage of that to construct solutions for your business or organization from the features of Outlook. This book is a collection of scenarios that incorporate and link many Outlook components to produce surprisingly powerful functionality. Without the need for code or specially-written applications, you will be extracting information from your Outlook Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders to create solutions like these: Monitoring staff leave and printing schedules Managing meeting rooms and printing invoices Managing fleet vehicles, their records, and servicing Managing a school class calendar, student records, attendance, assignments, and reports
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Summary


We have so far explored some unusual uses for the Outlook Calendar and some extraordinary ways to manipulate the Contacts folder. Hopefully by now you are beginning to sense that we have been gathering together the ingredients and the techniques that are the building blocks that will shape the unique solutions in the final chapter. The next building block is Tasks and we shall be exploring ways to utilize Tasks in the next chapter.