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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

Request sharing

If you need permissions for sharing and you do not have them, you can have Outlook generate an email to request this action from a user that is on Exchange. This example will show asking permission to share a user’s contacts.

  1. Click Home | Open Shared Contacts.

Figure 11.17 – Open Shared Contacts

  1. Enter the email ID of the person whose contacts you want to share in the Open Shared Contacts dialogue box.

Figure 11.18 – Enter name in Open Shared Contacts

  1. Exchange will not recognize the permissions granted for your request and will ask Do you want to ask <the name requested> to share his or her Contacts folder with you?

Figure 11.19 – Error viewing folder

  1. Click Yes to have an email created.

The email will be addressed to the recipient that you are requesting permissions from as shown.

Figure 11.20...