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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

Customizing your views

Outlook lets you customize your view to fit your working/non-working style. Not everybody works the same hours, lives in the same time zone, or has the same holidays. You may want to turn off the automatic reminders that you get with every new Calendar item or view the weather on the Calendar to help you navigate your activities according to the weather forecast. Using the Options dialogue box has these settings for you to adjust. Access this by clicking File | Options | Calendar.

Work time

In the Work time section are the items that allow you to control when your workday starts and ends. You can also specify the days of the week that you want to be scheduled as workdays, and you can change the First day of week field to begin on other days of the week besides Monday, and First week of year as well. This group is useful for having your time set up for you and not the working times that are the defaults within Outlook. If you are working on a different...

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