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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 2 – Sending and Receiving Emails

  1. Create a new email message (you can also reply to or forward an email) and select Insert and the drop-down arrow next to Link. Choose a file from the most recently used items, or at the bottom of this list, choose Insert Link… and the file to attach, and click OK. To attach more than one file, hold Ctrl while selecting multiple files. The link for the file or picture, if selected, will appear in the message of your email.
  2. This is most likely due to a temporary hiccup in the connectivity to the network/Virtual Private Network (VPN). Check to see whether you are still online by looking at the status bar, which will display Connected to: Microsoft Exchange or Working offline.

Figure 2.18 – Working offline

Outlook will automatically try to reconnect to the server, but if that does not work, you can click on the Send/Receive tab and then the Work Offline button. If this button is grayed...