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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


Hopefully this chapter has encouraged you to think a little differently about Tasks.

Although tasks are synonymous with more work and jobs to do (as if you don’t have enough to do already!), by being methodical and organized you can manage and control your tasks so that they work for you, saving you time and effort. Tasks even hold valuable information that can be exploited and reused. With a little imagination and creativity, Tasks can become a valuable and indispensable resource, transforming the way you work in Outlook.

Tasks have also introduced you to the final building block for the scenarios that are presented in the chapter that follows. Next we will bring together the Outlook tools and ideas that we have discussed so far to produce whole, interactive solutions that will transform Outlook into a consummate information manager.