Every business professional faces challenges in managing their time to be as efficient and productive as possible. Information management has become an important everyday task in helping manage these challenges successfully, and Microsoft Outlook is the gold standard to help users stay organized. Outlook not only helps manage contacts, appointments, and tasks, it also serves as the e-mail and fax client. Outlook 2007 has been redesigned and improved with a new user interface, electronic business cards, RSS support, smart scheduling, anti-phishing capabilities, junk e-mail filter, and more. Case study sections called "Improving Your Outlook" illustrate how to apply the information learned in real-world situations. Troubleshooting sections in each chapter illustrate common problems that occur when using Outlook, followed by a detailed solution. With this book, you learn the latest features and improvements in Outlook by focusing on user productivity through real-world techniques in real-world environments.

Introduction

I Setting Up and Configuring Outlook

1 What’s New in Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

2 Getting Started and Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

3 Managing Outlook Folders . . . 39

4 Creating Views and Print Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

5 Customizing Command Bars . . 117

II Outlook as a Personal Information Manager

6 Managing Personal Information

Using Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

7 Creating and Using Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

8 Customizing Outlook Today . . . 161

9 Creating Contacts . . . . 179

10 Working with Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

11 Address Books and Directory Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

12 Using the Outlook Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

13 Collaborating with Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

14 Working with Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

15 Staying Organized with the Outlook Journal . . . . . 349

16 Using Outlook Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367

III Outlook as a Mail Client

17 Working with Mail Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379

18 Creating New Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407

19 Receiving Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435

20 Using Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

21 Setting Outlook Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

22 Finding and Organizing Outlook Items . . . . . . . . . . . . 511

23 Importing, Exporting, and Backing Up

Outlook Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537

24 Compacting and Archiving Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561

25 Using Outlook Securely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583

IV Outlook as the Client for Exchange Server

26 Using Outlook as an Exchange Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621

27 Creating and Using Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651

28 Advanced Exchange Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 683

29 Exchange Public Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695

30 Working Remotely with Exchange Server . . . . . . . . . 721

31 Advances with Outlook and Exchange

Server 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 747

V Programming and Advanced Outlook Topics

32 Creating and Using Custom Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757

33 Using VBA in Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 795

34 Advanced Outlook Programming Topics . . . . . . . . . . 819

35 Business Contact Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833

36 Reading RSS Feeds in Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879

VI Appendices

A Installing Outlook 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 897

B Using the Office Resource Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 907

C Outlook’s Files, Folders, and Registry Keys . . . . . . . 915

D Outlook’s Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 921

E Working with the Windows Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927

F Outlook Shortcut Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 939

G Outlook Fields and Equivalent Properties . . . . . . . . 951

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 961

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 4 Ratings

Be Careful!!!!!! - 2008-12-30
Reviewer Rating:
I have never spent so much money on such a large volume that has so little useful information. If you are using Vista, check the other books available, this focuses on XP. I also bought 'Using Office 2007' and it is the same. The reading and explanations are easy to follow and understand, but I have found only a couple in each book that actually work. I do not know whether the high ratings given these books are XP users who have used limited information; but the ratings sure fooled me. I borrowed a 'Dummies' book and it has much more useful information.

The Best Reference Book - 2009-10-12
Reviewer Rating:
This is the best reference book for Outlook 2007. I purchased the book for my use, but everyone in my office comes by and borrows it. If you want information on Outlook, this is the book for you.

Outlook 2007 - 2008-06-26
Reviewer Rating:
The book is too big; therefore it's overwhelming, and a lot to digest at once. But I'm trying to get through it.

The Essential Guide - 2008-05-16
Reviewer Rating:
Outlook 2007, both as a separate client, and as a network client, needs to have a guide manual for most users.At some point you WILL need to have either a thorough manual or a very active community forum.If you work in an IT environment as I do, you have an extra benefit of many people using many forums.But, as a one stop shop, the QUE manual series is the most
comprehensive and hence beneficial source of information you can have on any topic, in this case, OUTLOOK 2007. The areas of the Interface ( and Outlook 2007 is essentially an interface to a server, in some cases an ISP, in some cases a Business EXCHANGE server), but however you get the raw info, the Outlook tool manipulates it in many ways, and can be supplemented. It also behaves differently in some cases, for example with Office 2007, the Templates loaded will affect the behaviour of the Outlook client, and so thats when saupplemental information is needed( a forum, or people who might now what is affecting outlook in a different way). Also, to get more out of Outlook, some people use XOBNI as a meta-data sorter ( a sort of Dashboard on a dashboard); I personally think XOBNI is not needed with good Outlook use, since you need much memory, and Outlook 2007 does the extra work anyway. But the Great thing about Outlook is that it really is an Email client which extracts a great deal of data, and also can be used as a first class PIM ( Personal Information Manager) and also a great Calendar and much more. This manual is all about USING Outlook 2007, and it does that in an orderly and logical manner.
Much of what lies outside of the manual is really about a full use of the templates. For example, if the default of the Appointment schedule gives you a screen that you don't want, then so long as the administrator has not locked the templates down, then you just change the calendar appointment, and save it in iCalendar or template mode... works beautifully.

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