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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

Macros

Using VBA within Outlook, you will find, makes it easy to complete repetitive tasks and have the application behave according to your expectations. VBA code that is written to perform a task is called a macro. You can program macros to be as simple or complex as needed, as well as being able to program them to run automatically or with the click of a button, or simply to have something displayed.

You may be asking what is the difference between a macro and VBA? A macro is programming code, which happens to be written in VBA, that runs on application platforms such as Outlook, Excel, Word, and others to perform automatic routine tasks. VBA is the programming application built within Outlook (or other apps) that is used to create macros.

In Office applications such as Excel and Word, you can record macros using a simple tool, Record Macro. This tool will create the VBA code for you as you go through the steps on the screen while having the code generated and saved as a macro...

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