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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
13
Part 4: How to: Share, Search, and Archive in Outlook
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Part 5: Outlook Collaboration and Integration
19
Part 6: Powerful Ways to Automate Outlook

Kanban

A Kanban board is a model that was created and used in the 1940s by an engineer at Toyota named Taiichi Ohno. In the Japanese language, kan means sign and ban means board. In Japan at the time, as streets became overcrowded, shop owners would make signs called Kanbans to pull in people off the streets to gain business.

Mr. Ohno also noticed that store shelves were stocked with a specific amount of products to meet the demands of consumers. Once they saw empty space on the shelf, it would be restocked. Mr. Ohno wanted to create a similar system due to Toyota’s decline. He needed a way to do the same thing within the factory while building cars. He developed a system that used Kanban cards to determine when a car was sold so another car could start production. This system helped to identify bottlenecks, reduce stockpiles, improve throughput, and maintain high visibility at the same time. This system also helped Toyota go from an operating loss to being a major competitor...

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