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Outlook 2007 for Dummies - 20 hours
Objectives
Most users take advantage of only two percent of Outlook's power; this course shows them how to harness frequently overlooked tricks and techniques that can significantly boost productivity. It will show you how to manage time and information in the new interface, covering instant searches, the To-Do bar, color categories, and task integration with OneNote, Project, Access, and Windows SharePoint Services.
This course also explains how to connect across boundaries with access to WSS data, two-way sync and offline access, calendar sharing, smart scheduling, RSS support, electronic business cards, and the improved out-of-office assistant and demonstrates how to stay safe and in control with the improved spam filter, anti-phishing capabilities, e-mail postmark features, e-mail folder organization, and information rights management.
Course Outline
Chapter 1 - Fundamental Features: How Did You Ever Do without Outlook? 1. Easy ways to do anything in Outlook
2. Reading email 3. Answering email
4. Creating new email messages 5. Sending a file
6. Entering an appointment 7. Checking your calendar 8. Adding a contact
9. Entering a task 10. Taking notes
Chapter 2 - Inside Outlook: Mixing, Matching, and Managing Information.
1. Outlook and other programs
2. About personal information management
3. There’s no place like home: Outlooks main screen 4. Clicking once: toolbars
5. Finding things in a flash with instant search 6. Getting help in Outlook
Chapter 3 - On the Fast Track: Drag ’til You Drop. 1. Drag
2. Creating email messages
3. Creating appointments from email 4. Creating contact records from email 5. Drag-and-drop dead: deleting stuff 6. Performing right-button magic
Chapter 4 - The Essential Secrets of E-Mail. 1. Front ends and back ends
2. Creating messages
3. Reading and replying to email messages 4. That’s not my department: forwarding email 5. Blind copying for privacy
6. Deleting messages
7. Saving interrupted messages 8. Saving a message as a file
Chapter 5 - E-Mail Tools You Can’t Do Without. 1. Nagging and flagging
2. Saving copies of your messages
3. Automatically adding your name to a reply 4. Setting your options
5. Sending attachments
Chapter 6 - Conquering Your Mountain of Messages. 1. Organizing folders
2. Organizing your email with search folders 3. Using (electronic) stationary
4. Using the reading pane 5. Playing by the rules 6. Filtering junk mail 7. Archiving for posterity 8. Arranging your messages
Chapter 7 - Your Little Black Book: Creating Contact Lists.
1. Storing, names, numbers, and other stuff 2. Viewing contacts
3. Flagging your friends 4. Using contact information 5. Distribution lists
Chapter 8 - The Calendar: How to Unleash Its Power.
1. The date navigator: really getting around 2. Meetings galore: scheduling appointments 3. Getting a good view of your calendar 4. Printing your appointments
5. Adding holidays to your Outlook Calendar
Chapter 9 - Task Mastery: Discovering All the Bells and Whistles. 1. The to-do bar
2. Entering new tasks in the tasks module 3. Editing your tasks
4. Managing recurring tasks 5. Marking tasks complete 6. Viewing your tasks 7. Tasks in the calendar
Chapter 10 - For the Record: Outlook Notes and Journal Entries. 1. Writing, Finding, Reading, and deleting notes
2. Changing a notes size 3. Viewing your notes 4. The reading pane 5. Printing your notes
6. Changing your default options for new notes 7. Forwarding a note
8. Keeping a journal for tidy recordkeeping 9. Don’t just do something – stand there! 10. Viewing journal entries for a contact 11. Finding a journal entry
12. Printing your journal 13. Viewing the journal 14. It’s all in the journal
Chapter 11 - Feeding on Blogs, Podcasts, and News with Outlook RSS. 1. Feeding your need for RSS
2. Setting up an RSS feed via internet explorer 3. Setting up an RSS feed via Outlook
4. Reading feeds
Chapter 12 - What You Need to Know to Use Outlook at Home
1. Investigating an ISP 2. Picking a provider
3. Setting up internet email accounts 4. Dealing with multiple mail accounts
Chapter 13 - Supercharging Your Sales with Business Contact Manager. 1. Understanding the Outlook Business Contact Manager
2. Adding a contact to Business Contact Manager 3. Adding an account to Business Contact Manager 4. Adding a new opportunity
5. Viewing and using reports
Chapter 14 - Big-Time Collaboration with Outlook. 1. Collaborating with Outlook’s help
3. Viewing two calendars side by side 4. About address books
5. Going public with public folders 6. Using SharePoint team services
Chapter 15 - Keeping Secrets Safe with Outlook Security. 1. Getting a digital ID
2. Sending a digitally signed messages 3. Receiving digitally signed messages 4. Encrypting messages
5. Other security programs for Outlook
Chapter 16 - See It Your Way: Organizing and Customizing Outlook. 1. Organizing Outlook
2. Enjoying the views
3. Playing with columns in table or list view 4. Sorting
5. Grouping
6. Saving custom views 7. Using categories
8. Customizing Outlook menus and toolbars
Chapter 17 - Work from Anywhere with Outlook Web Access. 1. Getting started with Outlook web access
2. Exchanging email 3. Using your calendar 4. Managing contacts
5. Collaborating with Outlook web access 6. Using public folders
7. Exploring options
Chapter 18 - Top Ten Accessories for Outlook.
1. Smartphones 2. Migo
3. Microsoft Office
5. A large, removable disk drive 6. Nelson email organizer
7. Address grabber 8. Microsoft Exchange 9. MindManager 10. Dymo label writer
Chapter 19 - Ten (Or So) Things You Can’t Do with Outlook. 1. The top ten (or so) list
2. Ten more things Outlook can’t do for you
Chapter 20 - Ten Things You Can Do After You’re Comfy. 1. Customizing the quick access toolbar
2. Embellishing email with Word art
3. Wising up your messages with Smart art 4. Adding charts for compact
5. Opening multiple calendars 6. Superimposing calendars
7. Viewing unusual numbers of days 8. Selecting dates as group
9. Turning on additional toolbars 10. Opening a web page from Outlook