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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

Summary

Many people struggle with keeping their personal and business emails together. Reducing the places where you read messages is a benefit of using Outlook. In this chapter, we discussed the benefits of using multiple email accounts within Outlook. We discussed the difference between Exchange, POP3, and IMAP/STMP accounts. We then discussed the advantages of using a domain with your email account to make your business look more professional. Outlook makes all these tasks easy and helps organize your day and save you time.

In the next chapter, we will discuss how to manage all the emails that you receive throughout the day, and we will teach you different ways to organize your personal environment inside Outlook by setting your option preferences, using color to identify important emails quickly, using flags, categories, and Quick Steps. These are some of the must-know tools for incorporating best practices into your day-to-day routine using Outlook.