Five Tips in Outlook – Most of us use Microsoft Outlook but do we use it effectively?
Here’s a simple tick list of five features in MS Outlook 2010 you may find helpful.
- Start using Conversations in the View Tab to link together emails sent back and forth over a period of time
- Create your own personalised Search Folder for the searches of words or phrases you use most often
- Use Autotext to save typing!
- Use Schedule View in Calendars to see who is available for meetings before you send out the request
- Use Quick Steps as a way of quickly filing and categorising emails
Quick Steps
We are now going to look in to the Quick Steps feature in a bit more detail for you!
These allow a number of actions to take place via the simple quick step of a button. In the Quick Steps gallery click on the DBL to show quick steps settings. From here you can create a new quick step by clicking on ‘New’ at the bottom of the dialog box and selecting the type of quick step you want to create.
Examples of actions in a quick step may be as follows:
- Move to folder
- Categorise an email
- Mark as high importance
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