Office 2007 Bible

Summary

This chapter explained the fundamentals of setting up your e-mail account and sending and receiving e-mail messages. It also covered sending attachments, dealing with attachments that you receive, and using the Inbox. Outlook data consists of items such as e-mail messages, appointments, and contacts. These items are organized into folders that are, in most cases, specialized to hold a single type of item. Folders in turn are stored in a Personal Folders file that also contains your account information and other Outlook settings. This chapter showed you how to work with items, folders, and data files to keep your Outlook information organized, accessible, and backed up. It seems that Outlook has an overwhelming number of e-mail options. Fortunately, most options can be left with their default settings and changed only when you have a specific reason to do so. As you become more familiar with Outlook, you gain a better understanding of how to set options to maximize your convenience and productivity.