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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

Summary

I have a confession to make: I don’t follow every one of these five SMART habits. I take the ones that work for me and keep the others for times when I may need them. The most important insight to gain from this chapter is that you structure Outlook to work in a SMART way for you and take notice of the bottlenecks that are slowing you down. Do what is comfortable and beneficial to the way you work.

I always say in my classes, “You don’t know what you don’t know!” What does this mean? To me, it means if you are going through life not learning, not trying to improve, and not moving forward, you will not know what you are missing.

If you have been using Outlook only to read and respond to the emails that you receive daily and nothing else, you are missing out on a great productivity tool. I hope you have learned and will implement many of the SMART techniques that have been demonstrated in this book, and that within a short period, you...