Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Creating a New Message

There are several ways to create a new message. You can click the New button on Outlook's Standard toolbar; select File, New, Mail Message; or use the keyboard combination Ctrl+Shift+M from any Outlook folder. Although those are the most common ways of creating messages, you can launch the message editor in several other ways from other applications.

From within any Office program, such as Word or Excel, select File, Send To, Mail Recipient to create a new email message that contains the current file. From Internet Explorer, select File, Send, and then choose either Link by Email or Page by Email to open a new message with the current Web page either embedded or attached as a link. From Windows XP, right-click on any file ...