Wiley Outlook 2007 For Dummies 978-0-470-03830-7 User Manual

In This Chapter

Reading and creating e-mail

Sending files by e-mail

Entering appointments and contacts

Checking your calendar

Entering tasks

Taking notes

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utlook is easier to use than you might think; it also does a lot more than
you might realize. Even if you use only about 10 percent of Outlook’s fea-

tures, you’ll be amazed at how this little program can streamline your life and
spiff up your communications. People get pretty excited about Outlook — even
if they take advantage of only a tiny fraction of what the package can do. I’m
kicking off this book with “Outlook’s Greatest Hits,” the things you’ll want to
do with Outlook every single day. The list sounds simple enough: sending
e-mail, making appointments, and so on. But there’s more here than meets the
eye; Outlook does ordinary things extraordinarily well. I know you want to do
the same, so read on.

Easy Ways to Do Anything in Outlook

Well, okay, maybe you can’t use Outlook to decipher hieroglyphics — but if
you learn a little about some basic techniques, you can do a lot in Outlook —
click an icon to do something, view something, or complete something.

Using Outlook is so simple, I can sum it up in just a few how-to sentences to
cover the most common tasks:

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