Microsoft Outlook 365

A comparison of the Outlook interface when using the desktop version vs the Office.com version (which is constantly changing). Note: This course is based on the Desktop version.

This is a guide to getting the quickest keyboard commands and buttons to work in your favor.

A quick review of turning a paper office into a digital office and how the similar rules apply.

Using the To button vs To line, CC and BCC to AutoFill email addresses

Signatures can show your name and contact info or an informational disclaimer. This lesson teaches how to create multiple versions and choose which one you need at that moment.

Attaching files to emails within Outlook is as easy as clicking a button, or clicking and dragging.

How to rescind a message that has already been sent.

Quick Steps are a way to set up a 'work flow' of a redundant process. It's one of the best-kept secrets in Outlook!

Outlook Email Options allow you to customize your send/receive settings and many other available options.

This lesson will help you control your email screen interface and which panels you want to see.

After getting your Inbox View set to your preferences, you can apply that structure to all your folders. It's a huge time saver!

This is an advanced lesson on creating little notes directly in your Inbox to provide at-a-glance details about important messages.

Keeping like-minded emails together can be helpful, and sometimes not. This lesson shows you the options and how easy it is to adjust grouping settings.

Two great tips on how to use search and conditional formatting to quickly find any email in your Inbox.

If you'd like to create visual signals for yourself for follow-up actions or to tag messages for various purposes, Flags and Categories can be great solutions.

Automated and Customized Search options based on your own preferences.

Learn how to customize your Calendar interface with advanced settings, including time zones and Holidays.

Learn the difference between appointments and events, and how to schedule other events like Focus time and Teams meetings.

Handling multiple schedules can be confusing, so the Schedule View and Assistant help you view availability when booking people and resourcces for your meetings.

Dealing with multiple calendars can be tricky, so we address how to add, share, and manage them.

Find events within your Calendar can be done easily with a range of options and features.

Sometimes printing a calendar is helpful. This lesson shows the options and best practices for good scheduling.

Create a new contact using the three methods shown in this lesson.

Contact Groups are a fast way to tag a group of names onto an email To: line.

There are multiple ways to find people and search through Outlook for important contacts.

This lesson shows you how to organize your contacts into folders, and then create Groups of contacts for even more flexibility.

Contact Categories allows you to filter by color and control how you group the people you know.

Change and Customize how you view your Contacts in order to find and manage them efficiently.

This lesson teaches how to generate a much needed Contacts Backup and save it to your hard drive.

Take your own to-do list and turn it into a series of Tasks that are easy to manage and complete within Outlook

Get help with your to-do list, assign tasks to your helpers, and use Task views to see their progress.

The Task To-Do Bar provides a customizable view for your task list.

Notes are short and sweet little nuggets of info, stored within Outlook... or elsewhere!

Microsoft OneNote is a notebook app that can receive Outlook emails as a page with just one button click.

Outlook can read messages aloud and translate to the language of your choice.

Managing the Outlook Back Office allows you to add multiple email accounts, keep your folders at a reasonable size, and set up your Outlook preferences as needed.

Set up your Archive file location and time increments for cleaning up your Outlook content.

There comes a time to finish a project, but keep all the email correspondence 'outside' of Outlook.
This helps to keep Outlook's file size small and nimble.

Send one email message to multiple contacts without using the cc or bcc lines. Each contact will receive their own copy of your message.