Microsoft Outlook 2010 Tutorials
Introduction / What Outlook Does
Subtitles of the Movie (Microsoft Outlook 2010 / Introduction / What Outlook Does)
An important topic to discuss early in any course in Outlook is exactly what Outlook does. Why would you use it? What does it do for you? How can it help you in your work or your personal life? Outlook is primarily an E-mail application. I say primarily because that's the feature people use most and most often. It allows you to send, receive, reply to, forward and organize your mail. You can dress it up as I've done in this message I already started. You'll see I've italicized some text, I've underlined some text, changed the font of some other text, changed the color of the text and there's so much more you can do and you'll learn that in other lessons. You can attach files to messages and you can send your messages under as many E-mail identities as you have because Outlook allows you to set up multiple E-mail accounts, a procedure you'll learn in other sections of this course. Outlook is also for scheduling. I'll switch over to the Calendar here. Between the Calendar and the Task List - and here's the Task List with a single Task in place; you'll learn how to create your own tasks later - but between those two things you can keep track of appointments, meetings, birthdays, anniversaries, to-do items - anything you need to do, anyplace you need to be. You can even customize how you're alerted to the need to do something or be somewhere and you can invite others to join you. Outlook is also for keeping track of your Contacts. You can store names and addresses, photos, notes and lots and lots of other pieces of information about everyone you know, work with, socialize with, or are related to. And you can even store them in separate databases so you don't mix business and pleasure. We have one record in place here. You'll learn how to create your own as we get to that portion of the course. If I open up this record you'll see all the many things you can store about a person or a company, any kind of contact, including their photo which I'll show you how to create and add later. Outlook also allows you to use all these pieces together. E-mails can be sent to invite people to meetings on your Calendar. You can assign tasks to different people. Your contacts can be shared with Word to do a mass mailing or you can bring files made in any other application such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint - anything in the Office Suite - or another application entirely and attach them to E-mail messages, attach them to a Calendar item or a task, or flush out a Contact record as you saw, for example, you could attach a photo to that Contact record. Outlook keeps you in tough, organized and on schedule. You can also take notes using the Notes feature to keep track of things as you go.
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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