This course with give you the skills and confidence to utilize Outlook, allowing it to enhance your daily work requirements. Outlook's applications give us the opportunity to become more efficient with our time and become more organized with many of our daily tasks. Learn how to harness these skills to your advantage.
This course will start by teaching you to navigate Outlook's screens and tab/ribbons. Once you are comfortable with navigating Outlook, we'll move into working with the various Apps:
- E-Mail Basics
- Creating
- Attachments
- Tabs/Ribbons
- Attaching Files
- Opening
- Saving
- Printing
- Replying to E-Mails
- Forwarding E-Mails
- Printing E-Mails
- E-Mail Organization
- Utilizing Clutter
- Working with the Junk E-Mail Filter
- Working with Rules
- NEW Working with Quick Steps - Customizing Default Quick Steps and Creating Custom Quick Steps
- NEW Working with Search Folders - Creating Default and Custom Search Folders
- E-Mail Signatures
- Creating
- Applying
- Out of Office Assistant
- Basic
- Adding Rules
- Calendar
- Tabs/Ribbons
- Working with Appointments - Single and Recurring
- Working with Meetings - Single and Recurring
- Peek the Dock
- Printing Calendars
- Creating and Printing Blank Calendars
- NEW Working with Time Zones - Changing, Adding a Second Time Zone and Swapping
- Contacts
- Tabs/Ribbons
- Working with New Contacts
- Working with Contact Groups
- Working with Groups
- Sharing Contacts
- Printing Contacts
- Tasks
- Tabs/Ribbons
- Working with Tasks - Single and Recurring
- Creating Tasks from Messages
- Updating Task Progress
- Peek the Dock
- Printing Tasks
- Notes
- Tabs/Ribbons
- Working with Notes
- Printing Notes
Step-by-step instructions for the features taught are included with the resources.
Who is the target audience?
- This course is meant for anyone wanting to enhance their Outlook skills as wells as those just starting out
- You will need Outlook 2016, however many of the lectures apply to Outlook 2013 as well
- Utilize Outlook's apps and features to work more efficiently
This lecture focuses on the individual pieces that make up the Outlook screens and their functions. Additionally, you will learn how the tabs work and how related commands are grouped together within the ribbons on the various tabs.
This lecture explains the various contextual tabs that become available within Outlook when using specific features.
This lecture teaches you how to utilize the KeyTips, enabling you to navigate the tabs and ribbons via your keyboard.
This lecture covers working with the various Quick Access toolbars available within Outlook -
- Adding Custom Commands
- Reordering Commands
- Removing Commands
- Resetting QAT back to default commands
- Moving QA Toolbar to below the ribbon
This lecture walks you through navigating/utilizing the E-Mail App tabs/ribbons, including the e-mail message tab. The step-by-step instructions for the features you will learn in this section have been added to the resources for this lecture.
In this lecture, you will learn how to create e-mail messages several different ways.
This section will teach you how to work with attachments -
- Attaching files to e-mails
- Opening attachments
- Saving attachments
- Printing attachments
In this lecture you will learn how to attach calendars, business cards, and selected emails as attachments.
This lecture will teach you how to utilize the reply and forward functions for e-mails.
Learn how to use the Outlook 2016 Clutter feature to sort and filter low priority messages. The step-by-step instructions for the features you will learn in the E-Mail Organization section have been included as a resource with this lecture.
Learn how to effectively utilize the Junk E-Mail Filter to filter out e-mails you do not want stored in your Inbox. You will also learn how to re-categorize messages that have been inadvertently marked as junk.
In this lecture, you will learn how to create rules utilizing both the blank rule feature and the Wizard.
With this lecture, you will learn how to utilize Outlook Quick Steps --
- Customizing Default Quick Steps
- Creating Custom Quick Steps
The step-by-step instructions for working with quick steps has been included in the resources for this lecture.
This lecture will teach you how to create default and custom search folders.
The step-by-step instructions for working with search folders have been included in the resources for this lecture.
You will learn how to create various types of Signatures, including how to add business cards, links, etc. You will also learn how to set up a signature to be automatically added to an e-mail as well as how to manually add signatures. The step-by-step instructions for working with signatures have been added to the resources for this lecture.
This lecture will walk you through utilizing the Out of Office Assistant (Automatic Replies) for both internal and external messages. You will learn how to schedule the replies as well as manually set them. You will also learn how to create rules to be run while your Out of Office Assistant is running. The step-by-step instructions for working with the Out of Office Assistant have been added to the resources for this lecture.
This lecture walks you through navigating/utilizing the Calendar App tabs/ribbons. The step-by-step instructions for working with the Calendar App have been saved to the resources for this section.
This lecture will teach you how to create and edit single appointments as well as recurring appointments.
In this lecture, you will learn how to schedule and modify both single and recurring meetings.
With this lecture, you will learn how to "Peek the Dock" - dock the calendar into the sidebar for the various apps so that it remains visible.
This lecture will teach you how to print various styles of calendars -
- Weekly Agenda
- Weekly Calendar
- Monthly
- Trifold
- Calendar Details
- Memo
This lecture will walk you through the process of creating a blank calendar to add to your Calendar app for printing and reference.
With this lecture, you will learn how to work with time zones --
- Changing Time Zones
- Adding a Second Time Zone
- Swapping Time Zones
The step-by-step instructions for working with time zones has been included in the resources for this lecture.
This lecture walks you through navigating/utilizing the Contacts App tabs/ribbons.
This lecture will teach you how to create and edit contacts. You will also learn how to create a contact from an e-mail's sender.
You will learn how to create and edit contact groups. (Contact groups were previously known as distribution lists and are used for distributing information to lists of recipients.)
This lecture will teach you how to create and edit groups. (Groups have a shared workspace for e-mail, conversations, files and calendar events where group members can collaborate and access information.)
With this lecture, you will learn how to share your contacts using the Share Contacts command. You will also learn how to share individual contacts via e-mail using vcards.
In this lecture, we'll briefly review the functions and features you learned in the Contacts section. The step-by-step instructions for working with the Contacts App have been included in the resources for this lecture.
This lecture walks you through navigating/utilizing the Tasks App tabs/ribbons. The step-by-step instructions for working with the Tasks App have been included in the resources for this lecture.
This lecture will teach you how to create and edit single and recurring tasks.
With this lecture, you will learn how to update the progress for your tasks as well as how to sort and view tasks.
With this lecture, you will learn how to "Peek the Dock" - dock the tasks into the sidebar for the various apps so that it remains visible.
This lecture will teach you how to utilize the notes app --
- Navigating and utilizing the Notes tabs/ribbons
- Creating Notes
- Editing Notes
- Keeping Notes visible from other programs/applications
- Printing Notes
The step-by-step instructions for working with the Notes App have been included in the resources for this lecture.