Outlook 2007

An overview of Outlook 2007

The Outlook Interactive Guide allows the user to demonstrate a task in Outlook 2003. Then the resource will demonstrate the same task in Outlook 2007. To begin click "Start the guide". To go to the next demonstration click on the grayed Outlook 2003 tab.

To see what's new in Outlook 2007: A new Fluent interface, along with new tools for searching, color coding and flagging

Links to Tutorials:

Calendar
Contacts
Instant Search
Mail
Personalizing Outlook
Printing
RSS and Outlook
Tasks
 

Calendar

• Introduction to the Outlook Calendar

• Outlook calendar basics

• Navigate in the Calendar

• Customize your calendar

• Change the appearance of your calendar

• Use your Outlook 2007 Calendar to prioritize and plan

• What are those symbols in my calendar display?

• Schedule an appointment

• Print a calendar showing appointments and meetings

• Do not print private calendar item details

• Print blank calendars

• Create an all-day event

• Add or delete holidays and custom events in your calendar

• Keep everyone informed about time away from the office

• Set or remove reminders

• Change the sound played for reminders

• Remove items from your calendar

• Delete duplicate calendar items

• Change detail level on the Week and Month views in calendar

• Change your Calendar work days and the start of your week

• Switch Calendar views between a 12-hour clock and 24-hour clock

• Schedule a meeting

• Prevent meeting request replies

• Prohibit counter proposals for meeting times

• Change an appointment, event, or meeting

• Make an appointment or meeting private

• Respond to a meeting request or notification

• Propose or accept a new meeting time

• View all new proposals for a meeting time

• Print a list of attendees from a meeting request

• Create a recurring meeting with a Meeting Workspace in a SharePoint calendar and then connect it to Outlook 2007  

• Create, view, or delete a group schedule

• Customize a group schedule

• Send a meeting request or e-mail message from a group schedule

• Create additional calendars

• See and use multiple calendars

• View calendars side-by-side or overlaid

• 3 ways to share your Outlook Calendar with others

• Introduction to calendar sharing

• Share your calendar information

• Share calendar information quickly with Navigation Pane links

• Open another person's Exchange Calendar

• Introduction to Internet Calendars

• Introduction to publishing Internet Calendars

• Synchronize Outlook and Apple iPhone or iPod touch calendars

Contacts

• Create a contact

• Create a contact from another contact

• Create new contacts from the same company

• Add new contacts

• Create a group of contacts

• Create and work with a distribution list

• Find a contact

• Print Contacts

• Add, change, or remove a picture for a contact

• Send your photo in your contact information

• Forward a contact

• Share a contacts folder with others

• Move contacts to another computer

• Resolve or delete duplicate contacts

• Use Outlook contacts as a data source for a mail merge

• Locate an address with Contact maps

• Add information to a contact by using the All Fields page

• Change the Business Card view in Contacts

• View address cards in Contacts

• Display the Contacts list in last name, first name format

• Open another person's Exchange Contacts

• Synchronize Outlook and Apple iPhone or iPod touch contacts

• Share contact information the easy way with Electronic Business Cards

• Create and use your own Electronic Business Card

• Display different contact information on an electronic business card

• Print an Address Book

• Print Contacts

• Print a distribution list

Instant Search

• Find needles in a haystack with Instant Search

• Enable or disable Instant Search

• Learn to narrow your search criteria for better searches in Outlook

• Include subfolders in Instant Search

• Instant Search is not finding all the items I expect

• Reset indexing by rebuilding your Instant Search catalog

• Can I remove the Instant Search pane?

Mail

• Get out of your Inbox with Outlook 2007

• Manage your mailbox I: Find its size and trim it down

• Manage your mailbox II: Understand your choices for storing

• Manage your mailbox III: Move or copy messages to Personal Folders

• Manage your mailbox IV: Archive old messages

• Manage your mailbox V: Retrieve, back up, or share messages

• 10 tips on how to help reduce spam

• Preview messages

• I can't see all my messages

• View your Inbox messages by thread

• Find all messages in the same thread

• Group or ungroup messages in your Inbox

• Forward multiple e-mail messages at the same time

• Find all my unread messages

• Mark messages as read or unread

• Sort your Inbox by using multiple columns

• Sort messages alphabetically

• Filter items and files in views

• Change the color of messages in your Inbox

• Customize the multi-line layout in your Inbox

• Display the total number of messages in a folder

• Publish a form template as an e-mail message

• Automatically reply to messages with the Out of Office Assistant

• Automatically reply to messages

• Attach a file or other item to an e-mail message

• Print an e-mail message and attachment

• Find attachment previewers

• View, open, and save attachments

• Reduce the size of pictures and attachments

• Blocked attachments in Outlook

• Remove unsafe attachments before sending a message

• Stop including the .vcf attachments with electronic business cards

• Stop adding personal information when attaching and sending Office documents

• What happened to the automatic picture resize option?

• Preview attachments

• Send a Word document for review by using e-mail

• Create and use an e-mail signature

• Create great-looking signatures for your e-mail

• Create and include a signature in outgoing messages

• Create a handwritten signature for e-mail messages on the Tablet PC

• Change your e-mail signature

• Stop using an automatic signature

• Add a salutation to a message

• Add a return e-mail address link to a message

• Add your handwritten signature to an e-mail message

• Can I add multiple signatures to an e-mail message?

• Change the font or font size of the message list

• Restore a column in your Inbox

• Remove the date (Received) column

• Change the order of folders in the Navigation Pane

• Move an item to another folder

• Work with tables in a document, presentation, or message

• Create and use an e-mail template

• Spice up your text with SmartArt graphics

• Add creativity to your e-mail

Personalizing Outlook

• Create a desktop shortcut for an Office program

• Minimize Outlook

• Hide the Outlook icon in the notification area of the taskbar

• Start Outlook showing my Calendar, Contacts, or Tasks

• Switch to another view

• Create, change, or customize a view

• Show or hide the status bar

• Place your favorite commands on the Quick Access Toolbar

• Move the Quick Access Toolbar

• Use the Ribbon

• Can I customize the Ribbon?

• I can't see a command on the Ribbon

• Minimize the Ribbon

• Show or hide ScreenTips

• Change the font or font size of the message list  

• Add, remove, or move a column

• Customize Outlook Today

• Turn Outlook Today on or off

• Make Outlook Today your default page

• Sort a list of messages, contacts, or notes

• Keyboard shortcuts in the 2007 Office system

• Take inches off (your workspace) with the updated Navigation Pane

• Stay on top of things with Outlook flags

• Can I remove the Instant Search pane?

Printing

• Printing in Outlook

• Preview a page before printing

• Print a file

• Print a list of messages, contacts, or tasks

• Print a list of attendees from a meeting request

• Print a calendar showing appointments and meetings

• Do not print private calendar item details

• Print Contacts

• Print an Address Book

• Print a distribution list

• Print an e-mail message and attachment

RSS and Outlook

• Outlook and RSS: Internet information delivered to your Mailbox

• Introduction to RSS

• Add an RSS Feed

• Add a collection of RSS Feeds

• Cancel an RSS Feed

• Automatically delete older RSS items

Tasks

• Stay on track with Outlook tasks

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Office 2007: User step-by-step manuals from Information Technology

Quick Reference Guides for all Office 2007 programs are available from Custom Guide