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Outlook 2010: Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Top 10 Tips
  • Finding a contact in seconds
  • Viewing Outlook in multiple windows
  • Sending a text (SMS) message from Outlook
  • Viewing the schedule for an entire group
  • Setting your default Address Book
  • Color-coding important messages
  • Sending business cards via email
  • Using Quick Parts to avoid retyping
  • Adding hyperlinks to an email
  • Conducting a vote via email
2. Organizing Your Email
  • Working with folders and subfolders
  • David's Rule of Email Organization
  • Staying organized with shortcut keys
  • Three ways to change how your Inbox displays
  • Conversation view
  • Deleting old messages
  • Three automatic rules for incoming messages
  • Creating a rule that replies with a message
  • Four ways to deal with junk email
  • Two ways to find an email
  • Repeating searches with Search Folders
  • Applying Quick Steps
  • Using the Activity Feed
3. Creating, Forwarding, and Replying to Emails
  • Seven shortcut keys for sending emails
  • Three ways to use your Address Book
  • Three ways to send email to lists or groups of people
  • Five ways to use the Bcc field
  • Five ways to use formatting effectively
  • Three ways to spice up the occasional email
  • Four faster ways to attach a file to email
  • Skipping attachments altogether
  • Sharing your Calendar via email
  • Marking an email for follow-up
  • Setting up multiple signatures
  • Two unusual ways to use the Drafts folder
  • Holding an email in your Outbox
  • Inserting a screenshot
4. Staying on Task
  • Five ways to create a task
  • Three ways to view your tasks
  • Three ways to change task due dates
  • Four ways to customize your Tasks folder
  • Setting task reminders (alarms)
5. Calendar and Appointment Tips
  • Four ways to reschedule an appointment
  • Four ways to track appointment details
  • Creating recurring appointments
  • Two ways to clone an appointment
  • Working with time zones
  • Setting the time zone of an appointment
  • Changing the time scale
  • Finding an appointment quickly
  • Using the Calendar with shortcut keys
6. Contacts
  • Adding a photo to a contact
  • Tracking birthdays and anniversaries
  • Getting directions to a contact's address
  • Three ways to customize your Contacts list
  • Adding a field to your Contacts list
  • Filtering your Contacts list
  • Merging your contacts into Microsoft Word
  • Customizing a business card's appearance
  • Quickly view and add a new contact
7. Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks
  • Using Outlook Today
  • Navigating through Outlook with the keyboard
  • Windows 7 Quick Tasks
  • Organizing by category
  • Setting an out-of-office message
  • Working offline
  • Ten email netiquette tips
  • Six tips for supervisors and managers
8. Customization
  • Customizing the Navigation pane
  • Customizing other panes
  • Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
Conclusion
  • Additional resources

Taught by

David Diskin

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