From the course: Learning Outlook 2019

What can you do with Outlook?

From the course: Learning Outlook 2019

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What can you do with Outlook?

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- [Instructor] Outlook is a complete personal or professional organizer. It's part of the Microsoft Office suite. You can add multiple email addresses that you have. In this case, I have an exchange account, and I also have a Gmail account down here. I can switch back and forth between both email accounts very easily. I can also add folders and file my email into particular folders. I can set follow up flags on particular emails if there's an actionable item in it. In fact, Outlook can even detect actionable items in emails themselves. There's also a calendar, in which you can add personal appointments, and you can also create meetings with other colleagues. You can put in as much or as little for each meeting invitation as you want. There's even a scheduling assistant so that you can find out when your colleagues are available so that you can schedule a meeting when nobody's busy. They can also send you meeting invitations, which can get automatically added to your calendar. In the people section, you have a full contact manager in which you can easily add contacts from emails and you can also create notes about who these people are. For these last two options, I'll cover them in detail in my Outlook essential training course. But you can also use Outlook as a task manager. It can remind you of personal or work tasks and you can even categorize them to tell them apart. Finally, if I click these three dots I can enter the notes area. This is where you can leave yourself post-it type notes which can even stay on your desktop when Outlook is minimized on your computer. For this course, I'm going to start right at the beginning. I'm going to walk you through adding an email account and understanding the navigation just a bit better.

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