Microsoft Outlook 2013
Introduction/Intermediate

Course Overview

Microsoft Outlook 2013 is a powerful communication and organizational tool. In this course you will discover the extensive tools you can use to control the deluge of e-mails in your inbox, find contacts easily, manage your time and organize your tasks using Outlook to achieve your personal and business objectives.

Course InformationRelated Training

Duration: One-Day Course
Platform: Windows Only
Fee: Call for information

We recommend one to eight people for this course.

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E-Mail

The Outlook interface: the Backstage View, Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar in Office 2013
Using the new expanded Ribbon to create professional looking e-mail messages.
Managing the deluge of e-mails you get every day by creating an efficient filing system you can use to file and easily retrieve your e-mail messages.
Automating your filing system by creating rules that will automatically file your e-mail messages.
Using the Conversation View to manage your e-mails.
Creating Quick Steps to automate frequently used procedures and commands.
Finding items quickly using the Search Tools.
Learning how to create an e-mail template.

Contacts/People

Managing your contacts by creating detailed contact sheets with categories to store and effortlessly retrieve significant contact information.
Using the new People Card to see key information about your contacts.
Using the mail merge command to merge contact names, addresses and e-mail addresses with a letter.

Calendar

Managing your time by learning the secrets of time management by efficiently using your calendar to set up colour-coded appointments, meetings or events with built-in reminders to ensure you never forget a critical business or personal commitment.
Learning to pin the calendar in any Outlook view.

Tasks

Using Outlook Tasks to manage your daily activities, people and projects by getting rid of all those small pieces of paper and instead create detailed task sheets with built-in reminders.

Notes

Using the Notes component to keep small amounts of information. Also learning to assign categories and to colour code notes.

Customize Your Outlook

Learn how to use the many different Outlook productivity commands in all the Outlook components to enable you to work smarter.

Application Overview: Microsoft Outlook 2013

Microsoft Outlook is a powerful communication and organizational tool. It also provides a calendar, task and contact management, note taking, a journal and web browsing. Microsoft Outlook enables users to organize and prioritize e-mail messages quickly and easily, and new security settings offer increased support for junk e-mail filtering. Support for remote and mobile workers includes improvements to connectivity performance, such as better caching, and shared calendars. Obtaining information from a variety of locations is made easier with organizational tools, such as the Research Task Pane. Microsoft Outlook features Archiving which removes items from your current Personal Folders list, such as E-Mail messages, calendar and task items and automatically stores them in folders that have the same hierarchy and names as the folders in the Personal Folders. Microsoft Outlook lets you add Contacts to mail merge documents, assign tasks, send a meeting request, setup appointments, send a meeting request and create an all day event.

Users: Admin, Creative, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Marketing and IT Professionals as well as anyone who needs create, edit, distribute electronic messages, calendar events, contacts and tasks.

Microsoft Outlook 2013 Introduction/Intermediate