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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

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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

Chapter 11: Sharing Mail, Calendars, and Contacts

When was the last time you waited until noon to open your email? Many people try but very few actually manage to do that. For most of us, checking our email is the first thing we do when we get up or when we get to the office. One of the biggest advantages of sending email is that delivery is fast. In contrast to traditional mail services, we can send emails 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We can check and read our emails at any hour of the day on any day of the year too. But is that really to our advantage and is it productive?

Many productivity gurus will tell you that scheduling a time to read your email will help you save time. I believe this is true and I encourage everyone to do this. I also believe asking for a little help is a good solution, which opens up concepts we will cover in this chapter on sharing your mail, calendar, and contacts with others to help you manage and monitor them. Many executives refer to such “...

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