Outlook® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

4. Basic Email Tasks

In This Chapter

• Composing and sending new email messages

• Retrieving and reading messages

• Replying and forwarding messages

• Deleting messages

• Working with file attachments

• Using simple message tools

It’s high time we started emailing. You’ve got your email services set up and squared away, you’ve figured out how to maneuver around the program window with confidence, and now it’s time to communicate with the outside world—or, if you work in an office, send a message to your coworker inquiring about where you’re eating lunch later.

Basic emailing tasks involve composing and sending messages and receiving and reading messages. That really is the gist of it—send some, get some sent to you. Ah, but it’s the subtle ...