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Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

By : Staci Warne
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Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

5 (11)
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)
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Part 1: Introduction to Outlook
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Part 2: Email Essentials
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Part 3: Beyond Email – Calendars, Contacts, Notes, and More
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Part 4: How to: Share, Search, and Archive in Outlook
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Part 5: Outlook Collaboration and Integration
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Part 6: Powerful Ways to Automate Outlook

Summary

Tasks have so many useful features that can really help to increase productivity. They are a hidden secret in Outlook, and it will benefit you to learn how to manage your tasks and always have them available to track what needs to be done. This could be through flagged emails or tasks that you create, or better yet, create and assign to another person. By tracking your tasks at a high level, as you have learned to do through this chapter, you will find that you are less likely to forget any highly important items that must be completed.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the different ways that you can simplify your Outlook search. Once you learn how to master these search techniques, you will no longer feel like you must create hundreds of folders to organize your emails yourself. Outlook search has gone through a complete overhaul in the past few years and with the many tips and tricks you are about to learn, you will quickly find any item you need.

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