The Microsoft Outlook Handbook

Microsoft Outlook 98 For Windows For Dummies helps office users spend less time managing their daily calendar and more time managing their workloads.
-- Provides a complete overview of Outlook, Microsoft's desktop information management application that combines the features of a personal information manager, an E-mail client, a groupware application, and a time and contact manager
-- Find out how to relay information directly from E-mail into Outlook's various sections, automatically reformatting the data to fit the style of the list
-- Explore Outlook's journal feature that lets users track when they last worked on various Office documents or traded E-mail with certain people
-- Discover the new features of Outlook 98 including a simple interface, built-in search tool, organization wizard, HTML E-mail support, and filtering devices.

Office users can now concentrate on more important things than trying to remember the order of priorities for tasks and messages. Microsoft Outlook 98 For Windows For Dummies is the fast and easy reference that will get readers up-and-running on Microsoft's newest messaging application. This book shows' users how to operate and maintain Outlook's messaging capabilities as well as its enhanced scheduling and calendar components. Microsoft Outlook 98 For Windows For Dummies provides complete coverage of Outlook features including a new feature that gives users the ability to add automatic viewing capabilities to their messages and allows them to dynamically alter and rotate views of a message's interface. This book will also help corporate users integrate Outlook into a corporate Lotus CC:Mail or Novell GroupWise system, customizing the waythey handle E-mail at work.

The Microsoft Outlook Handbook successfully moves from the basics of using Outlook to power-user features, such as creating new views and forms. And at the end of each chapter, you'll find a discussion of how an individual user, a small workgroup, a large workgroup, or a committee might use the features covered in that chapter. For example, the chapter on using the Calendar includes ideas on how users with and without Microsoft Exchange Server (Microsoft's optional back-end messaging server) can collaborate on their schedules. You can also learn how to create your own forms and take the process further by using VBScript to automate these forms. Throughout the book, the author provides ease-of-use tips and large, helpful screen shots; for example, the last chapter consists of screen shots of various views you can call up within Outlook. The author also offers cautionary advice about the best and least efficient ways to sort data and create new fields. In all, this is a very good guide to getting to know Outlook inside and out.