Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

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 emailer, calendar, and personal organizer in the Office 365 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 applications. It’s a little different in that what you see onscreen changes when you click an App button. Click an App button in Outlook — Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks — and you go to a different Outlook window altogether. The App buttons are located on the left side of the screen.

Outlook serves many purposes. To wit, Outlook is all this:

• An emailer: You can use it to send and receive email messages and files, as well as organize ...