Managing Your Time and Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

3 Hours

Course Overview

This instructor-led course, through lecture and hands-on exploration, will teach you how to manage your time and organize information using the calendar, contact, task, notes, and journal features of Microsoft Outlook.

Course Objectives

• Create and edit various types of appointments
• Create a meeting request to invite others
• Add and edit tasks or assign to others
• Create and maintain contact information
• Create distribution lists to communicate the same information to multiple people
• Add notes to store miscellaneous information

Working with the Calendar

• Viewing the Calendar
• Going to Different Dates
• Setting Appointments
• Editing Appointments
• Deleting Appointments
• Setting Recurring Appointments
• Rescheduling Recurring Appointments
• Deleting Recurring Appointments
• Scheduling Meetings
• Changing Meeting Information
• Responding to Meeting Requests
• Tracking Attendee Status
• Inserting All Day Events
• Printing Calendars

Creating and Maintaining Contacts

• Viewing Contacts
• Adding Contacts
• Forwarding Contacts
• Editing Contacts
• Finding Contacts
• Adding Categories
• Creating Contact Groups
• Printing Contacts
• Using Contacts for Word Mail Merges

Working with Tasks and To-Do Items

• Viewing Tasks and To-Do Items
• Adding Tasks
• Editing Tasks
• Marking Tasks as Completed

Assigning Tasks Using Outlook Notes

• Viewing Notes
• Working with Notes
• Forwarding Notes
• Displaying Notes While Working