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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

Adding new contacts

Most of us have a pile of business cards that we got at some convention, or various other places, that we need to get into our contacts in Outlook. Outlook is a great place to manage all those cards. It can be a time-consuming endeavor uploading all of them, but the payoffs could be large. There are several apps that you can get on your phone that will allow you to snap a picture of a card and sync that picture with an Outlook contact. If you receive a lot of business cards, you may want to consider using one of these apps. In Outlook, to enter contact information, click People | New Contact and enter the information that is available.

Adding a contact from an email message

Let us understand how to add a contact from an email message:

  1. Open the message so that the person’s email ID is shown.
  2. Right-click the email ID that you want to create a contact out of and click Add to Outlook Contacts.

Figure 7.1 – Right...

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