Chapter 22. Organizing Outlook Information

Managing Outlook Data Files and Folders

Mastering Outlook Search

Selecting and Customizing Views in Outlook

Organizing E-Mail Messages

Using Address Books and Directory Services

OUTLOOK can store an astonishing amount of data on your behalf. But all that information—e-mail messages, contact details, reminders of upcoming appointments—is just wasted disk space if you can’t reliably find it when you need it.

In this chapter, we explore your strategies for filing and finding Outlook items. We start with the basics of items and folders, which superficially resemble their counterparts in the Windows file system but work in significantly different ways. We spend the greatest part of this chapter on Outlook’s Instant ...

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