Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 Inside Out

Chapter 23. Using Templates

• Working with E-Mail Templates

• Using Other Outlook Template Types

• Editing Templates

• Sharing Templates

If you use Microsoft Word frequently, you're probably familiar with templates. These useful tools can help you quickly and easily create documents that share standard elements—for example, boilerplate text, special font and paragraph formatting, and paragraph styles.

You can also use templates in Microsoft Outlook 2003 to streamline a variety of tasks. There is nothing magical about these templates; they are simply Outlook items that you use to create other Outlook items. For example, you might create an e-mail template for preparing a weekly status report that you send to your staff or management. Perhaps you use e-mail ...