Office 2007: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks

Chapter 10. Tap Outlook's Inner Power Through E-mail

In the last several years, e-mail has become a primary method of communicating — so much so that many people are deluged with messages every day. Outlook's Mail component enables you to view, respond to, forward, and compose new e-mails, as well as create folders for organizing the e-mails you send and receive.

With these basics mastered, you can graduate to using Outlook's more advanced e-mail functions. For example, you can use Outlook to create distribution lists, which are useful if you frequently send e-mails to the same group of contacts — for example, to your team members at work — because they enable you to simply enter the name of the distribution list in the message's To field instead ...