Office 2007 Bible

Top Outlook Options

When you select Tools Options in Outlook, Outlook’s Options dialog box appears. As shown in Figure A-7, it organizes options in the traditional tabbed format, offering tabs for each of its categories of settings, as follows:

• Preferences. Use the choices here to adjust functionality for the various tools offered in Outlook: E-mail, Calendar, Tasks, Contacts and Notes, Search, and Mobile. One important choice here is the Junk E-Mail button; clicking it displays a dialog box in which you can make choices about how Outlook should handle spam messages. The E-mail Options button presents choices for handling messages, such as Save Copies of Messages in Sent Items Folder, and whether to quote original text when replying to or forwarding a message.

• Mail Setup. The choices on this tab enable you to set up E-mail Accounts to work in Outlook, as well as adjust send and receive, storage, and dial-up connection settings.

• Mail Format. Use this tab to specify the default format to use for your outgoing messages (HTML, Rich Text, or Plain Text), as well as to choose Stationery and Fonts, set up Signatures, and work with Editor Options.

• Spelling. Turn message spell checking on or off here, as well as access more detail settings for Spelling and AutoCorrection behavior.

• Other. On this tab, you can set up Default Program settings in Outlook, change AutoArchive settings, and change ...