Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac® Bible

Chapter 24. Entourage Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Setting up an e-mail account with Setup Assistant

• Learning about the Entourage features

• Navigating the Entourage program window

If you're like most people today, your life is pretty complicated and often feels like it's going in a million different directions. Wouldn't it be nice to hire a personal assistant, someone who could come in each day and tell you what's on the agenda, where you need to go, what things need to be done, answer important e-mails, and hand you a nice cup of coffee? Entourage can do that, electronically speaking of course—except for the cup of coffee part. It doesn't do coffee. Not yet anyway. I hope to hear about an update soon to synchronize Entourage with a coffee pot. What a programming coup that would be!

Even without the cup of coffee part, Entourage is a great tool for keeping track of your busy life. Acting as both a project manager application and an e-mail client, Entourage can help you organize appointments, plan events, jot down notes, manage addresses and phone numbers, juggle a to-do list, and e-mail colleagues, friends, and family. It's starting to sound like you ought to be paying it to do all those things. At its very heart, Entourage is a tailored organizational tool you can use to help your complicated life seem a bit less complicated and a bit more organized. In this chapter, you learn how to set up Entourage, find your way around the program window and features, and import your favorite electronic ...