Chapter 1
Outlook Basics
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting around in Outlook
Searching in folders
Deleting items
Archiving old-and-in-the-way items
This chapter pulls back the curtain and gives you a first glimpse of Outlook, the e-mailer, calendar, and personal organizer in the Office 2019 suite of applications. Read on to find out once and for all what Outlook does, how to get from folder to folder, and the different ways to view the stuff in folders. You can find advice about keeping folders well organized, deleting stuff, and cleaning out items in folders that you no longer need.
What Is Outlook, Anyway?
Outlook isn’t in character with the rest of the Office programs. It’s a little different in that what you see onscreen changes when you click a Navigation button on the bottom of the window. Click a Navigation button — Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, Notes, Folders, or Shortcuts — and you go to a different Outlook window altogether.
Outlook serves many purposes. To wit, Outlook is all this:
- An email program: You can use it to send and receive email messages and files, as well as organize ...
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