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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

Conditional Formatting

Applying different formatting to messages can help you view and read your email messages faster. When you see a specific color or formatting applied, you will know what the message is regarding or possibly who it is coming from. To apply this formatting automatically, you can use Conditional Formatting. This tool is also available in other Microsoft applications. But it is used and turned on differently within Outlook. With Conditional Formatting in Outlook, create the condition by clicking on View | View Settings.

Default Conditional Formatting rules

When you open your Inbox, you have probably noticed your email messages are bold if you have not clicked on the message to open it. You may have also noticed that once you click on a message and view it, the bold format goes away, and it appears in normal text. This applied formatting is the effect of a Conditional Formatting rule. These are examples of two of the eight preconfigured Conditional Formatting...

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