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Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

By : Staci Warne
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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

Answers

  1. Outlook is a software application that can be installed on your computer, tablet, and mobile devices. Its uses are to communicate and synchronize with Exchange. Exchange is the software that provides an integrated system for your email, calendaring, messaging, and tasks. The two applications, Outlook and Exchange, must work together to run Outlook. With Exchange Server, you or your IT support company maintain the server and have full control of the infrastructure, whereas with Office 365, you do not have control of it, and it is maintained by Microsoft in the cloud.
  2. The simple answer is no. Despite providing access to your email, they are not email marketers and do not allow you to use email contact lists and send campaigns to subscribers. An example of this type of provider would be Mailchimp or Constant Contact, and there are several others to choose from.
  3. In one Outlook account, you can add up to 20 different email accounts. These accounts do not have to be...