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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

Email protocols

A protocol in computer science is a set of procedures and rules for transmitting data between electronic devices, such as computers. Without a set of protocols or rules, the sending and receiving computers would not be able to communicate if they were transmitting data differently.

Protocols that run your emails through the host are typically grouped into three categories, Exchange, IMAP, and POP3. Before you can install a new email account on your computer, you must know which of these three platforms you intend to use. It’s also important to understand the differences between these platforms before choosing your desired method. The three protocols that we will discuss here, used for setting up an email account, will be POP3, IMAP/SMTP, and Exchange.

POP3

POP3 is used only for downloading emails from a server. POP stands for Post Office Protocol, and the number is the version. With POP3, you can choose to either delete the copy of the email on a server...

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