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Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

By : Staci Warne
Book Image

Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

By: Staci Warne

Overview of this book

Millions of users across the globe spend their working hours using Microsoft Outlook to manage tasks, schedules, emails, and more. Post-pandemic, many organizations have started adopting remote working, and the need to stay productive in workspace collaboration has been increasing. Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook takes you through smart techniques, tips, and productivity hacks that will help you become an expert Outlook user. This book brings together everything you need to know about automating your daily repetitive tasks. You’ll gain the skills necessary for working with calendars, contacts, notes, and tasks, and using them to collaborate with Microsoft SharePoint, OneNote, and many other services. You’ll learn how to use powerful tools such as Quick Steps, customized Rules, and Mail Merge with Power Automate for added functionality. Later, the book covers how to use Outlook for sharing information between Microsoft Exchange and cloud services. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll get an introduction to Outlook programming by creating macros and seeing how you can integrate it within Outlook. By the end of this Microsoft Outlook book, you’ll be able to use Outlook and its features and capabilities efficiently to enhance your workspace collaboration and time management.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Outlook
3
Part 2: Email Essentials
8
Part 3: Beyond Email – Calendars, Contacts, Notes, and More
13
Part 4: How to: Share, Search, and Archive in Outlook
17
Part 5: Outlook Collaboration and Integration
19
Part 6: Powerful Ways to Automate Outlook

Chapter 8: Outlook Notes

It is time to unclutter your monitor and trash those sticky notes. Outlook Notes will give you the confidence to do that. Notes are electronic sticky notes, often referred to as digital notes, and are a version of the traditional sticky notes that we all have that love/hate relationship with. I used to have these sticky notes all over my monitor, on the walls, on my calendars, and just about everywhere that I could put them. I can laugh at myself now to think that I used a sticky note on my calendar to remind me of some details. Is that not what a calendar is for? I finally started using Outlook Notes and got all those physical sticky notes off my desk. Digital notes reside on the right side of my desktop inside Windows.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following topics:

  • Creating a new note
  • Organizing notes
  • Displaying notes on the desktop
  • Sending notes

You can access these notes on your screen while working and use...