Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Plain & Simple

A Few Assumptions

I had to make a few educated guesses about you—my audience—when I started writing this book. Perhaps your computer is solely for personal use—e-mail, surfing the Internet, playing games, and so on. Perhaps your work allows you to telecommute. Or maybe you run a small home-based business. Taking all these possibilities into account, I assumed that you either use a stand-alone home computer or that you have two or more computers connected so that you could share files, a printer, and so on. I also assumed that you have an Internet connection.

Another assumption is that—initially, anyway—you use Outlook just as it came, meaning that you use the standard views and standard menus rather than custom ones, and that you use your little ...