Outlook
Book - 2022
"Did you know that Microsoft Outlook can do everything, including cook your dinner? Okay, it can't cook your dinner. But it can deliver your email, filter out the junk, help you organize your life, sync data to the cloud, integrate with iOS and Android, and about a zillion other things. Outlook For Dummies shows you how to work all the basic and advanced features of the Office 2021 version."--
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Office 2021 edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
"Learning made easy"--Cover.
"Covers Outlook 2021 & Office 365 version"--Cover. - Physical Description
- xv, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119829119
- Introduction
- Outlook: What Is It Good For?
- About This Book
- About Version Numbers
- Foolish Assumptions
- Interface Conventions Used in This Book
- Dialog boxes and windows
- Ribbons and tabs
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Part 1. Getting Started with Outlook
- Chapter 1. A First Look at Outlook
- Why Outlook?
- Doing (Almost) Anything with a Few Clicks
- Switching to the Simplified Ribbon
- Using Email: Basic Delivery Techniques
- Reading email
- Answering email
- Creating new email messages
- Sending a file
- Maintaining Your Calendar
- Entering an appointment
- Managing your schedule
- Adding a Contact
- Entering a Task
- Taking Notes
- Chapter 2. Taking a Tour of the Outlook Interface
- How Outlook Fits Into the Office Picture
- Exploring Outlook's Main Screen
- Moving between modules
- Using the Folder pane
- Changing views in a module
- Working with the To-Do bar
- Working with the Daily Task List
- Taking a peek
- Navigating folders
- Taking Control with the Ribbon
- Viewing ScreenTips
- Using the New Item(s) button
- Finding Things in a Flash with Search
- Simple searching
- Advanced searching
- Getting Help
- Just do it for me!
- Just tell me what to do!
- Chapter 3. Getting on the Fast Track with Handy Shortcuts
- Learning the Value of Dragging
- Creating Other Outlook Items from Email Messages
- Creating a task from an email message
- Scheduling an appointment from an email message
- Creating a new contact from an email message
- Creating Email Messages from Other Items
- Creating an email from a contact
- Creating an email from an appointment
- Keeping the Interface Simple
- Zen of the Right Button
- Part 2. Taming the Email Beast
- Chapter 4. Email Essentials
- Front Ends and Back Ends
- Creating Messages
- The quick-and-dirty way
- The slow but complete way
- Blind copying for privacy
- Formatting a message
- Setting the message importance
- Setting sensitivity
- Setting other message options
- Adding an Internet link to an email message
- Dictating a message
- Reading and Replying to Email Messages
- Viewing previews of message text
- Sending a reply
- Resending messages
- Read it to me!
- That's Not My Department: Forwarding Email
- Deleting Messages
- Saving a Draft of a Message
- Saving a Message as a File
- Chapter 5. Taking Email to the Next Level
- Nagging by Flagging
- One-click flagging
- What kind of flagging have you got?
- Setting a flag's status
- Setting flags for different days
- Changing the default flag date
- Adding a reminder to a flag
- Attaching a flag to an outgoing message
- Changing the date on a reminder
- Saving Copies of Your Messages - or Not
- Setting Your Reply and Forward Options
- Adding Comments to a Reply or a Forward
- Sending Attachments
- Sending a file from Outlook
- Sending a file from another application
- Emailing Screenshots
- Creating Signatures for Your Messages
- Translating a Foreign-Language Message
- Chapter 6. Conquering Your Mountain of Messages
- Organizing Folders
- Creating a new mail folder
- Moving messages to another folder
- Organizing Your Email with Search Folders
- Setting up a search folder
- Using a search folder
- Deleting a search folder
- Playing by the Rules
- Creating a rule: the complete method
- Creating a rule: the quick method
- Runninga rule
- Filtering Junk Email
- Fine-tuning the filter's sensitivity
- Filtering your email with sender and recipient lists
- Filtering domains
- Archiving for Posterity
- Setting up AutoArchive
- Setting AutoArchive for individual folders
- Starting the archive process manually
- Finding and viewing archived items
- Closing the archive data file
- Arranging Your Messages
- Filtering your messages
- Sorting your messages
- Viewing conversations
- Ignoring conversations
- Cleaning up conversations
- Simplifying Tasks Using Quick Steps
- Creating and managing Quick Steps
- Creating Quick Parts to save keystrokes
- Chapter 7. Managing Multiple Email Accounts and Data Files
- Choosing an Email Provider
- Buying Your Own Domain Name
- Setting Up Email Accounts in Outlook
- Understanding POP3 vs. IMAP
- Collecting the needed information for setup
- Setting up an account using automatic settings
- Setting up an account using manual settings
- Sending Messages from Different Accounts
- Modifying Mail Account Settings
- Changing the basic account settings
- Changing the mail server
- Updating your stored email password
- Managing Outlook Data Files
- Removing an account from Outlook
- Purging old data files
- Moving a data file to another computer
- Part 3. Keeping Track of Contacts, Dates, Tasks, and More
- Chapter 8. Your Little Black Book: Managing Your Contacts
- Putting in Your Contacts: Names, Numbers, and Other Stuff
- The quick-and-dirty way to enter contacts
- The slow, complete way to enter contacts
- Viewing Your Contacts
- Sorting a view
- Rearranging views
- Using grouped views
- Flagging Your Friends
- Using Contact Information
- Searching for contacts
- Finding a contact from the Mail module
- Forwarding a business card
- Gathering People Into Groups
- Creating a Contact group
- Editing a Contact group
- Using a Contact group
- Adding pictures to contacts
- Chapter 9. Organizing Your Schedule with the Calendar
- Getting a Good View of Your Calendar
- Choosing a view
- Viewing calendar items
- Time Travel: Viewing Different Dates in the Calendar
- Meetings Galore: Scheduling Appointments
- The quick-and-dirty way to enter an appointment
- The complete way to enter an appointment
- Changing an appointment's date or time
- Moving an appointment by dragging
- Copying an appointment by dragging
- Moving an appointment using the Appointment form
- Adjusting the length of an appointment
- Cancelling an appointment
- Scheduling a recurring appointment
- Changing a recurring appointment
- Printing Your Appointments
- Adding Holidays
- Handling Multiple Calendars
- Creating multiple calendars
- Managing multiple calendars
- Sharing Calendars
- Sharing a calendar associated with an Exchange account
- Accepting a calendar-share invitation
- Calendar-sharing options for non-Exchange accounts
- Chapter 10. Staying on Task: To-Do Lists and More
- Entering New Tasks in the Tasks Module
- The quick-and-dirty way to enter a task
- The regular way to enter a task
- Working with Tasks Folders
- Tasks vs. To-Do List: What's the difference?
- Browsing a data file's folders
- Creating new Tasks lists
- Renaming a Tasks list
- Moving tasks between lists
- Switching Up the View
- Editing Your Tasks
- The quick-and-dirty way to change a task
- The regular way to change a task
- Deleting a task
- Managing Recurring Tasks
- Creating a regenerating task
- Skipping a recurring task once
- Marking Tasks as Complete
- Marking it off
- Picking a color for completed or overdue tasks
- Using the To-Do Bar (and List)
- Viewing the Daily Task List
- Working with the To-Do Module
- Part 4. Taking Outlook to the Next Level
- Chapter 11. Merging Mail From Outlook to Microsoft Word
- Making Mailing Label Magic
- Making and Using a Merge Template
- Mastering Form Letter Formalities
- Merging to Envelopes
- Merging to Email
- Chapter 12. Integrating Outlook with Google and iCloud
- Integrating Google Calendar with Outlook
- Subscribing to a Google Calendar in Outlook
- Importing a Google Calendar into Outlook
- Accessing Gmail Contacts in Outlook
- Integrating Outlook with iCloud
- Installing the iCloud app on your PC
- Setting up Outlook to work with iCloud
- Using iCloud content in Outlook
- Chapter 13. Outlook for iOS and Android Devices
- Understanding the Mobile Difference
- Accessing Mobile Email
- Setting up Outlook on a mobile device
- Reading email
- Replying to email
- Composing email
- Archiving, scheduling, and deleting email messages
- Deleting messages
- Managing groups of messages
- Using Your Mobile Calendar
- Navigating the mobile calendar
- Creating a new appointment
- Chapter 14. Seeing It Your Way: Customizing Outlook
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
- Displaying and positioning the QAT
- Adding and removing commands from the QAT
- Customizing the Ribbon
- Creating a new tab and group
- Adding and removing commands on the Ribbon
- Reordering Ribbon tabs
- Resetting Ribbon customization
- Hiding or deleting a Ribbon tab or group
- Playing with Columns in Table/List Views
- Adding a column
- Moving a column
- Widening or narrowing a column
- Removing a column
- Sorting Items
- Sorting from Table view
- Sorting from the Sort dialog box
- Grouping Items
- Saving Custom Views
- Using Categories
- Assigning a category
- Renaming a category
- Changing a category color
- Assigning a category shortcut key
- Part 5. Outlook at Work
- Chapter 15. Outlook on the Job
- Planning Meetings with Outlook
- Organizing a meeting
- Responding to a meeting request
- Checking responses to your meeting request
- Taking a vote
- Casting your vote
- Assigning tasks
- Sending a status report
- Enabling Coworkers to Help You with Your Work
- Giving delegate permissions
- Opening someone else's folder
- Viewing Two Calendars Side by Side
- Setting access permissions
- Viewing two accounts
- Managing Your Out of Office Message
- Managing Your Address Books
- Chapter 16. Using Outlook on the Web: Your Outlook Away From Outlook
- Signing In to Outlook on the Web
- Exploring the Outlook on the Web Interface
- Getting Caught Up on Web Email Basics
- Reading messages
- Sending a message
- Setting message importance
- Flagging messages
- Organizing Contacts
- Sorting your contacts
- Using Your Calendar
- Viewing your calendar
- Entering an appointment
- Moving an appointment
- Creating a To-Do List
- Exploring Your Options
- Automated vacation replies/out of office message
- Creating a signature
- Part 6. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 17. Ten Shortcuts Worth Taking
- Using the New Item Button
- Sending a File to an Email Recipient
- Sending a Link to a File
- Sending a File From a Microsoft Office Application
- Turning a Message Into a Meeting
- Finding Something
- Undoing Your Mistakes
- Using the Go to Date Dialog Box
- Adding Items in List Views
- Sending Repeat Messages
- Resending a Message
- Chapter 18. Ten Things You Can't Do with Outlook
- Create a Unified Inbox
- Insert a Phone Number Into Your Calendar
- Open a Message from the Reading Pane
- Perform Two-Sided Printing
- Search and Replace Area Codes
- Print a List of Meeting Attendees
- Enlarge the Type in the Calendar Location Box
- Create Contact Records for All Recipients of an Email
- Track Time Zones for Meetings
- Back Up Outlook Data Easily
- Chapter 19. Ten Things You Can Do After You're Comfy
- Take Notes
- Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
- Smarten Up Your Messages with Smart Art
- Translate Your Email Messages
- Add Charts for Impact
- Use Symbols in Email
- Open Multiple Calendars
- Superimpose Calendars
- Select Dates as a Group
- Pin a Contact Card
- Index