Using Microsoft Outlook 98 - Softcover

Padwick, Gordon; Ray, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789715163 ISBN 13: 9780789715166

Publisher: Que, 1998

Synopsis

Find the shortcuts and advice to working more efficiently in Microsoft Outlook 98. Use Microsoft Outlook 98 as a Personal Information Manager (PIM) or with a corporate workgroup. Learn how to use Outlook with your personal Internet account or with your corporate server-including Exchange Server 5.5. Manage your email, contacts, meetings, task lists, journal, and files-all from one easy-to-use interface.

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Review

Typical of the Using series, this book attempts to document its subject completely and does an admirable job. In these pages, you'll find information on every menu, button, and dialog box you might encounter while using Microsoft Outlook 98--and for that reason, this book is valuable. On the other hand, documentation-oriented computer books tend to take something of a machine-centric view of the world, and aren't always as attentive to human situations.

Padwick begins by helping you dive into Outlook, explaining how to use the program to send and receive electronic mail and access Usenet newsgroups. Almost simultaneously, the author explains how to work with information you acquire to perform such tasks as searching message archives. He then steps back, detailing the processes involved in connecting to information resources such as the Internet or a local area network (LAN). His documentation of these potentially confusing topics is intelligent and thorough. Subsequent chapters cover the mechanics of advanced messaging procedures, such as sorting incoming mail with filters and synchronizing folders.

Later in the book, the author explores the personal-information-management aspects of Outlook. You'll get the goods on the program's calendar features and information storage and retrieval capabilities. Throughout, the focus is on local networks, as it should be. --David Wall

From the Publisher

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Edition details

• Publisher: Que
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0789715163
• ISBN 13: 9780789715166
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656