Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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icrosoft clearly hopes that Entourage will be the only personal informa-

tion manager you’ll ever need. As proof, it offers a built-in Rolodex func-

tion that serves as a master name/address/phone number/photo gallery/

email address book for Office X, and a Notes module that lets you write pithy com-

ments about everybody you know.

But make no mistake: the names, numbers, and comments you store in these pro-

grams don’t just sit there, locked away in a stand-alone database. In fact, you’ll often

consult your electronic little black book from within the other Office programs.

For example, once your Address Book contains a few names, Entourage can

autocomplete addresses as you start typing in the To field of email messages. It can

also fetch the phone numbers of people you’re inviting to events that you schedule

in Entourage’s calendar. You can also easily include address book information in

Word, Excel, or PowerPoint.

Address Book

The Address Book isn’t a separate application that you double-click when you want

to look up something; it’s just one module of Entourage. You view it by clicking the

Address Book icon in the upper left of Entourage’s main window, by choosing

View→Go To→Address Book, by pressing c-2 (and probably in dozens of other

ways).

Entourage Address

Book and Notes

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