Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Improving Your Outlook

Outlook's rules, Out of Office Assistant, and junk email protection enable you to increase your productivity by automatically performing some of the work of filing, organizing, and responding to email. The simple reduction in the amount of junk email you must deal with on a regular basis can save you anywhere between 5 to 20 minutes every day. Combine that with rules that flag messages, move them to the appropriate folders, and notify senders when you are out of the office, and Outlook can save you even more time every day. This section shows how Sam, a real estate agent, uses rules and the Out of Office Assistant to help manage all the emails he receives in a day.

Sam works for one of the busiest real estate agencies in ...