You're reading from Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook Supercharge your office and personal productivity with expert Outlook tips and techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560703

Length 428 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Concepts

Business Management

Author (1):

Staci Warne

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Outlook

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Outlook FREE CHAPTER

3. Part 2: Email Essentials

4. Chapter 2: Sending and Receiving Emails

5. Chapter 3: Managing Email Accounts

6. Chapter 4: Organizing Your Outlook Environment

7. Chapter 5: Outlook Mail Merge

8. Part 3: Beyond Email – Calendars, Contacts, Notes, and More

9. Chapter 6: Managing the Calendars

10. Chapter 7: Contacts in Outlook

11. Chapter 8: Outlook Notes

12. Chapter 9: Tasks and To-Dos

13. Part 4: How to: Share, Search, and Archive in Outlook

14. Chapter 10: Save Time Searching

15. Chapter 11: Sharing Mail, Calendars, and Contacts

16. Chapter 12: Archiving and Backup

17. Part 5: Outlook Collaboration and Integration

18. Chapter 13: Collaboration and Integration within Outlook

19. Part 6: Powerful Ways to Automate Outlook

20. Chapter 14: Nine Useful Rules

21. Chapter 15: Programming with Macros

22. Chapter 16: Managing Your Day System

23. Assessments

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a new note

Let's learn how to create a new note in this section:

Click on the Notes object in the bottom section of the navigation pane of Outlook. If you do not see the Notes button on this pane, click on the … button, and in the new selection, click on Notes.

Figure 8.1 – More objects

Instead of selecting Notes, you should set it up on your navigation pane so that the Notes object is easily accessible next time.

To do this, select Navigation Options…:

Figure 8.2 – Navigation Options selection

In the Navigation Options dialog box, set Maximum number of visible items: .

The maximum number you can set is eight objects, and this includes the More button. I have found that I like displaying six items, and I think having more than six items makes the buttons a little too small for my liking. Also, you can use the Move Up and Move Down buttons after selecting...