Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

What Are Notes?

Outlook's Notes, like the sticky notes they resemble, are useful for storing small pieces of text (see Figure 16.1). You can add contacts or categories to your Notes and locate the Note quickly using Find. Because URLs in Notes are clickable, you can paste a URL in a Note and include comments about the site. Outlook saves Notes automatically, so as soon as you move focus away from the Note, you never have to remember to save it.

Figure 16.1. Click on the small icon in the upper-left corner to access the options available for individual Notes.

Notes can replace paper notes, but they lack most of the functionality you might expect ...