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The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book

By : Barbara March
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The Microsoft Outlook Ideas Book

By: Barbara March

Overview of this book

Microsoft Outlook, in tandem with Microsoft Exchange Server, provides a powerful environment for sharing information. This book will show you how to take advantage of that to construct solutions for your business or organization from the features of Outlook. This book is a collection of scenarios that incorporate and link many Outlook components to produce surprisingly powerful functionality. Without the need for code or specially-written applications, you will be extracting information from your Outlook Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders to create solutions like these: Monitoring staff leave and printing schedules Managing meeting rooms and printing invoices Managing fleet vehicles, their records, and servicing Managing a school class calendar, student records, attendance, assignments, and reports
Table of Contents (8 chapters)

Chapter 4. Whole Solutions

So far we have explored unconventional uses of Outlook’s individual components and we have utilized the business example of "Our Company" to demonstrate:

  • Staff records: Recording and evaluating staff leave

  • A vehicle pool: Recording and monitoring vehicle details, servicing, etc. and linking to users

  • Suppliers: Organizing their records into an invaluable business directory

  • Taxi booking records that could be applied to other services

In this way, we have been developing an Outlook solution for Our Company, but this solution is not quite complete, there is more that we can do for Our Company.

In this chapter, we will complete the solution for Our Company, integrating various Outlook and Office components, and will also explore another ‘whole solution’, a School‑based example that we haven’t yet introduced.

Our Company Solution

We will create a scenario involving both the Outlook and Office components.

Meeting Room Management

Meeting room bookings are commonly managed using...