Microsoft Office 2010 In Depth

25. Working with Contacts and Planning Meetings

Any user of Outlook when asked about Outlook’s primary function would probably say that it is an email application. However, when you think about how important it is to manage and communicate with your contacts, whether you are sending out a group email invitation to a party or mining your Outlook Contacts list for customers, Outlook really shines in terms of its capabilities for working with contact information.

In this chapter we take a look at the possibilities for creating and managing contact data in Outlook and how the Contacts folder’s data becomes a key part of using Outlook to communicate with others. Outlook also provides a number of tools related to scheduling meetings with your contacts ...