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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

Mail Merge

Mail Merge in Outlook allows you to send a message to a large group of people at once without the recipient knowing who else received the message. In many cases, the recipient will not know you sent it to others and will think they were the only one who received the message from you. With Mail Merge, the recipient will only see their own name in the To field of the email. It is also possible to personalize other fields within the message or even have attachments personalized as well. Many people try to be discreet in not allowing the recipient to know who the other recipients are by entering the email IDs in the Bcc field.

Creating a mail merge in Outlook

There are 10 steps involved in creating a mail merge in Outlook that can be sent via email. These steps are very straightforward and will be described here as we create a mail merge to be sent by email:

  1. The first step is to select Contacts in the navigation pane.
  2. Select the contacts that you want to...