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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

When you have many personalized emails that you need to send out, but not enough to justify using an email marketing company, Mail Merge can be your best productivity tool. You can save hours and hours and headaches by learning how to utilize this technique correctly. Combine this with Power Automate and the sky is the limit in what you can accomplish.

In the next chapter, we will cover the variety of ways that you can manage your calendars using Outlook Calendar. The way you use calendars can be different for every individual. You may find yourself not needing every tool available but maybe only one or two. However, I have always been taught that you don’t know what you don’t know. Let’s dive into the next chapter and show you the magic behind calendars. That could be in the form of a new view you didn’t know you could display or a new way to set up a meeting or color code an event. If you’ve never used the calendar inside Outlook before...