Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tutorials
E-mail Basics / Composing a New E-mail Message
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Outlook's E-mail Tools are simple to use but it's a good idea to familiarize yourself with the basics starting with how to create your own E-mail Messages. To begin be sure you're in the Mail section of the Outlook application by clicking this Navigation button here. Once you're in Mail the first button on the Home tab becomes a New e-mail button. Now bear in mind, if you're in the Calendar or your Contacts database, your Task List, anywhere else in Outlook and want to begin a new message you can use the New Items button, which is available through any of those parts of the application and notice that E-mail Message is one of the potential New Items. Once you've clicked the New E-mail button you get this New Message window. You'll notice that this window gives you all the tools you'd need to format, attach files, do anything you want to do to the message. We'll learn about those functions in another lesson. For now let's start by addressing a message. We'll start here in the To box and we're going to type an address. Now I'm going to start typing and notice as soon as I start typing Outlook recognizes one of the addresses from my Address Book. Now if that's one that I want to use I simply click it and that person is a recipient and the all-important semicolon at the end of their address is automatically inserted. If I'm typing an address, say if I type it manually like that I have to put in my own semicolon. You can also paste E-mail addresses that you might have copied out of a Web page or a document. You can also access your Address Book directly by clicking the To button and here I just have a few names thrown in here just so you'd see how the list would look. To add someone simply double-click their name. Notice Mary Smith is now among the list of recipients. I click OK and the semicolon after my second recipient stands and then Mary Smith was inserted. Now I can Carbon someone else. I can put in an address here on the Cc line or I can select someone from the Address Book by double-clicking Cc, so I'm going to Carbon Tom Davis here and I can also Blind Carbon someone. Now if you don't see your Bcc box simply go to the Options tab and click Bcc. Here I'll turn it off. That's how it may look for you if you've never used it before. If you want it back just click Bcc. Now, Blind carboning, it means that the person who you've designated as the Blind Carbon recipient is invisible to everyone else. The Blind Carbon recipient can see the names and addresses of everyone else who received the message but the Blind Carbon recipient is hidden. Now I'm going to type my subject. That's the next step. It's important to have a Subject for your messages because it helps the recipient know what to do. It may help him or her decide which messages to open first, which ones are urgent. We will learn in another lesson about how to mark your messages as important so that you know and can advise someone that no matter what the Subject line says they should read it right away. But the Subject line helps people figure out what to do once they get the message. Also, if they have Rules set up that might categorize their mail based on words in the Subject line you're helping them do that, too. And you'll learn about how to set up those Rules in another lesson. Here I'm going to type in a subject and now we're ready to build the body of the message. Now I'm going to click down here in this big white box and I'm going to paste some text that I already created for you just so that you don't have to sit here and watch me type. And there's the body of the message. Now at this point you're ready to send. All you have to do is click the Send button but some advice I have for you would be that you should proof the message: make sure you didn't say anything you didn't mean to say; if there's anything misspelled you can deal with that and we'll learn how to spot and deal with spelling errors in another lesson; make sure all your recipients are correct, that you didn't forget someone or accidentally include someone who shouldn't be getting the message; double check your Subject line; and, at that point all you have to do is click Send. Now once you click Send you're going to send the message directly to your Outbox. You can save it to Drafts by simply clicking the Save button and then closing the Message Window instead of hitting Send and that would allow you to go back in and continue editing the message at another time. We'll have another lesson on all the ins and outs of working with Drafts. If this message is ready to go, however, just click Send and in a moment you'll notice my Outbox here, which you can see off to the left, will have a little 1 next to it and then that 1's going to go away real quickly because the message will be sent immediately. Your Outlook may be set up to do Send and Receives say at a specific interval or to have the message sit in the Outbox until you manually choose to send the messages. This one's going to go out immediately as you'll see, so I'm going to click Send. There's that 1 and then it's gone. So, you now know how to compose a New Message, to Address it, to fill in a Subject line, compose the Body of the message and Send it along.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Outlook 2010 |
| Author: | Laurie Ulrich Fuller |
| SKU: | 34166 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-54-2 |
| Release Date: | 2010-10-05 |
| Duration: | 7 hrs / 89 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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