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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
3
Part 2: Email Essentials
8
Part 3: Beyond Email – Calendars, Contacts, Notes, and More
13
Part 4: How to: Share, Search, and Archive in Outlook
17
Part 5: Outlook Collaboration and Integration
19
Part 6: Powerful Ways to Automate Outlook

Chapter 6 – Managing the Calendars

  1. The two calendars on the left side of the Navigation pane are a way to navigate and select days you want to view in the main Calendar window. You can use the arrows to navigate to other months. When you change the month of the calendar, the other calendar will change as well. You can also click on a date in these calendars to navigate to that date in your main Calendar window or even select two or more dates (by holding down the Ctrl key) to compare them side by side. This is a very useful tool that many users do not use because they don’t know about its power.
  2. Click File | Options | Calendar | Calendar Options, then uncheck the Default reminders box; you can change the reminder time here as well.
  3. Yes, click View | To-Do Bar | Check To-Do. This will add the calendar to the To-Do Bar, which will appear on the right side of the calendar.
  4. Yes, select the email that you want to convert to a meeting request and then click...

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