Quick Launch - Outlook

Course Length: 1/2 day, 8 am – Noon or 1- 5 pm

Course Description

Overview:

You will learn the basics of using Microsoft Outlook as a communications tool. You will send and receive mail messages, use a calendar to schedule appointments, and coordinate business meetings with multiple participants. You will also keep track of personal and business contacts, and create task lists and notes to remind you of things that need to be done.

Instructor led, group-pace, classroom-delivery learning model.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Address and compose a message, change the message format, check the spelling and grammar and then send the message. You will also attach a file to a message and send a message with voting buttons.

Open a message in your inbox, reply to it and forward it to others. You will also print and delete messages.

Add an appointment and an event to your calendar, including a recurring appointment, and assign a category to an appointment. You will also print your calendar.

Schedule a meeting with multiple participants, reply to meeting requests, and track meeting responses.

Add a contact to the contact folder and view the contact list in different ways. You will also sort contacts and assign categories to contacts. Finally, you will update contact information.

Add tasks to a task list and edit them as needed. You will also assign categories to tasks and assign tasks to contacts.

Sort messages and find a specified message. You will also organize your mailbox by creating additional folders and moving them around, and deleting folders.

Create a note and move it to your desktop, assign a category to a note, and assign a note to a contact.

Attachments
Virus types
Level of Risk
Antivirus software limitations

Compose and Send a Message
Check Spelling and Grammar
Attach File to Message
Create and Add A Signature to a Message

Add an Appointment to the Calendar
Schedule a Recurring Appointment
Delete an Appointment
Schedule an Event
Print the Calendar

Schedule a Meeting
Reply to a Meeting Request
Cancel a Meeting

Add a Contact
Sort Contacts
Find a Contact
Edit a Contact

Create a Task
Update a Task
Assign Task to Contact

Create a New Fold
Move Messages Between Folders
Delete a Folder
Search for Messages