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Microsoft Outlook 2000 Tutorials

Getting Started & Outlook Today / Customizing Outlook Today

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When you open up Microsoft Outlook it will either open straight into your inbox, as we have opened here at the moment or it will open straight into Outlook Today. It may be a good idea to set your preferences to open Outlook Today as you come into Outlook, simply because Outlook today searches and combines information from a number of different important areas within your modules here and summarizes it for you at a quick glance. So as you come in, you can see in Outlook Today it tells you clearly what calendar events are set for today and need doing, tasks that may be urgent, and what's waiting for you in the message box. And you can customize your Outlook Today by clicking on the Customize Outlook Today button. When we come into the customization area, you can see that there is a number of different things that you can set to your own tastes, styles or preferences. The first being on startup - 'would you like Outlook Today to launch'. If you'd like that then simply tick this box there and save your changes, and then from now on, every time you come into Outlook, the very first thing that you will see is what needs doing in your Outlook Today. As you saw when we came into Outlook Today there were a series of folders from your email setup and the default is set to your inbox, your outbox and your draft folders. If there are other email options you'd like included in that folder list, then you simply click on choose folders and tick which of those other folder items you'd like included in that list. The calendar is set by default to show you 5 days, but you can change that to anything you like by clicking and dropping cascading menu. You can choose it to show what's happening today or in fact what's happening for a whole week. But for the moment I'll leave mine set to a 5-day default. Next on our list of preferences is the tasks. Now in the task list we have selected that we want to see all tasks that we have set ourselves. But again if you'd like to change those tasks to today's tasks including tasks with no due date, then that's entirely up to you. And you can sort that task list by its due date, by its importance, time that you actually created that task, or the start date that task needs to be undertaken. For the moment we'll pop that back to due date. And again you have a choice of whether you'd like that by ascending or descending and then by something else again as well. It's entirely up to you. And lastly for our options of Outlook Today we have styles. Now I've chosen standard style, but there's a number of options. You can choose to have the standard colors in 2 columns, standard in 1 column, choice of summer - you might get an idea of pinky tones there, or winter if you are more of a blue and white person. But for now I'll just stick to the standard option. And now that everything is exactly the way that we'd like it be, we can save all of our changes and sit back and enjoy what it is that we have created there. This is a very useful and functional option for Outlook Today because it means that you can set your Outlook Today to provide you with the information that you require on a day to day basis.

Tutorial Information

Course: Microsoft Outlook 2000
Author: Zoe Barnett
SKU: 33181
ISBN: 1930519109
Release Date: 2000-07-06
Duration: 6 hrs / 61 lessons
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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