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Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560703
Length 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Staci Warne Staci Warne
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

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

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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