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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

Handling replies

When a person replies to your emails, that reply by default will go back to the originator of the email message. In Outlook 2016 and later, you have the option to redirect replies to another email address than yours. This is very useful if you are going on vacation and want messages replied to someone other than yourself for that time period.

To have replies directed to someone else, click the Options tab | Direct Replies To.

Figure 2.12 – Direct Replies To

Within the Properties dialog box, Delivery options will have a checkbox by Have replies sent to. If the box is not checked, you need to check it.

Figure 2.13 – Properties for Delivery options

In the box to the right of this, enter the name of the email ID that you want the replies sent to from now on. You need to remember to change this as needed. If you prefer, or do not know the email address, you can click on the Select Names… button...