1. What You Can Do with Outlook 2007

Whether you’ve been using Microsoft Outlook for just a few days or for several years, you’ve certainly figured out that it does more than email—much, much more. It’s not unusual to find people who have organized their entire lives with Outlook. Companies that develop add-ins for Outlook view the application as a great platform because so many people “live in Outlook.”

But if you asked each Outlook user how he or she puts the program to work, you would receive a different answer every time, because people have their own ideas on how to organize the critical information in their lives. Wouldn’t it be great if Microsoft could make Outlook so customizable that everyone could use it in his or her own way? It might not be 100 percent possible, but the programming environment included with Outlook 2007 is rich enough to let you make great strides toward bending Outlook to your will, or that of the organization you work for.