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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

Summary

I have a confession to make: I don’t follow every one of these five SMART habits. I take the ones that work for me and keep the others for times when I may need them. The most important insight to gain from this chapter is that you structure Outlook to work in a SMART way for you and take notice of the bottlenecks that are slowing you down. Do what is comfortable and beneficial to the way you work.

I always say in my classes, “You don’t know what you don’t know!” What does this mean? To me, it means if you are going through life not learning, not trying to improve, and not moving forward, you will not know what you are missing.

If you have been using Outlook only to read and respond to the emails that you receive daily and nothing else, you are missing out on a great productivity tool. I hope you have learned and will implement many of the SMART techniques that have been demonstrated in this book, and that within a short period, you...

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