Book Image

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

Answers

  1. Ctrl + 5 is the shortcut key combination to open the Notes workspace.
  2. Sticky notes appear on Windows computers as well as inside OneNote and the OneNote app. When you add a note inside OneNote – a sticky note on your phone, for example – that note will automatically sync with Outlook. If you turn on the sync feature and select your Microsoft 365 account on the Windows sticky notes, the notes created will also sync with OneDrive.
  3. In Outlook 2010 and 2007, you can change the fonts in the notes by clicking File | Options | Notes and Journal. This option was taken away in Outlook 2016 and later versions. The default font in these later versions is 11-point Calibri.
  4. You can retrieve a deleted note as long as it still resides in your deleted folder in the navigation pane. Click on the Mail button on the navigation pane, then open the contents of the Deleted Items folder. You will find your deleted notes in this folder as well. To retrieve the note,...