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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 3: Managing Email Accounts

The biggest issue facing today’s society is data security. This is mainly because our information is available to everyone, and it is important that we select an email host that can provide the security and services that we require.

In this chapter, we will discuss what you need to look for in a host and what Outlook provides for you. Then, we will discuss setting up your domain name, the best practices for selecting it, and how to connect it to your email ID within Outlook.

In this chapter, we are going to discuss the following topics:

  • Why have multiple email accounts?
  • Selecting an email host
  • Email protocols
  • Setting up email accounts
  • Changing a mail server
  • Domain names

Knowing the different email platforms that are available to you and how to set them up in Outlook is an important topic to address, and you will gain that insight in this chapter. You can set up one account or multiple accounts using...