Module 1: Your Inbox

This module explains how to find, sort, and organize messages.

Lessons

• Quickly Locating Messages
• Arranging Messages in Different Ways
• Organizing Messages by Using Color Categories
• Organizing Messages in Folders
• Archiving Messages
• Key Points

Lab: Your Inbox

• Use Instant Search to find a message.
• Experiment with arranging, sorting, and filtering messages.
• Display, rename, create, and modify categories; assign categories; and sort by category.
• Create a folder in which to store messages.
• Explore archiving options for all folders and for a specific folder.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Your Calendar

This module explains how to set up Outlook to display your work week, configure Outlook for multiple time zones, print calendars, link to an Internet calendar, and view more than one calendar.

Lessons

• Defining Your Available Time
• Configuring Outlook for Multiple Time Zones
• Printing a Calendar
• Linking to an Internet Calendar
• Working with Multiple Calendars
• Key Points

Lab: Your Calendar

• Change your work week.
• Preview your calendar in different print styles.
• Display an Internet calendar.
• View multiple calendars.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Your Contact List

This module explains how to search for contact information, use color categories to organize contacts, set up a distribution list, and create a contacts folder.

Lessons

• Quickly Locating Contact Information
• Organizing Contacts by Using Color Categories
• Creating a Distribution List
• Creating an Additional Address Book
• Key Points

Lab: Your Contact List

• Use Instant Search to find a contact record.
• Assign and manipulate color categories.
• Assign new contacts to a distribution list.
• Create a contacts folder.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Message Enhancements

This module explains how to include business graphics in the text of messages, format messages, and create signatures for messages.

Lessons

• Creating and Formatting Business Graphics
• Personalizing the Appearance of Messages
• Adding Signatures to Messages Automatically
• Key Points

Lab: Message Enhancements

• Create a flowchart.
• Experiment with local formatting and themes.
• Create a signature for new messages.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 5: Meetings

This module explains how to create, update, and cancel meetings, and respond to meeting requests.

Lessons

• Scheduling, Updating, and Canceling Meetings
• Responding to Meeting Requests
• Key Points

Lab: Meetings

• Create and send a meeting request.

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 6: Interactive Information

This module explains how to use information in one outlook module to quickly create an item in a different module.

Lessons

• Quickly Communicating with Contacts
• Creating a Task or an Appointment from a Message
• Sending Calendar Information in an E-Mail Message
• Key Points

Lab: Interactive Information

• Base a task and an appointment on a message.
• Include schedule information in a message.

After completing this module, students will be able to: