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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

Why have multiple email accounts?

Reading email is the first morning activity for many people and has increasingly become an important method of business communication. Email is fast, inexpensive, easily accessible, and has become an efficient and effective way to communicate.

There are several reasons why a person would want to have multiple email accounts. To separate your online presence, I would encourage you to set up several email accounts according to the activities that you encounter in your sending and receiving of emails. Some of these categories can be the following:

  • Personal
  • Business
  • Temporary or “throwaway”
  • Social networking
  • Journals and newsletters
  • Adverts
  • Occasional sign-ups at events

This list could go on and on for every individual person. Before you jump in and start creating these various accounts, I would recommend taking inventory of the emails you currently receive and then looking at the current activity...