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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 15 – Programming with Macros

  1. VBA is currently supported in the desktop version for Microsoft 365 and will be for some time in the future. However, keeping it working on all versions of Outlook will probably not happen. As of the writing of this book, there are no plans to retire VBA. Microsoft will continue to encourage users to learn JavaScript APIs as the VBA replacement.
  2. Macros can pose a threat to your Outlook environment and Microsoft has now set the default to disable macros coming from the internet. To change this setting, click File | Options | Trust Center | Trust Center Settings… | Macro Settings and select the desired setting.
  3. Back up or create a Word document with your Outlook macros. Open the VBA Editor in Outlook and copy the code for the macros. Paste the copied code into a Word document and save it to your computer.
  4. The shortcut key for opening the VBA editor within Outlook is Alt + F11.
  5. The current available MOS Outlook exam...