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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

Display options

In the Display options section within the Calendar tab, you can specify how you want your calendar to appear in the Calendar display within Outlook. You will find the different groups within this section and a few of the prominent features described after the following figure:

Figure 6.6 – Display options

  • Default calendar color: Click the drop-down arrow by this button to select the color you would like to work with while in Outlook.
  • Show week numbers in the month view and in the Date Navigator: This will show the number of the week in the Calendar represented by a number throughout the Calendar, starting at 1 for the first week of the year.

    Note

    The final two selections for Display options are to switch from vertical layout to schedule view according to how many calendars are displayed. Read the selection carefully as these are reversed wording as written for each item.

Time zones

We will configure the time zone that...