Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Record Journal Entries Automatically

To keep track of your interactions with contacts and other activities, such as the amount of time spent on a particular project, you can use Outlook’s Journal feature. Perhaps the most efficient way to use this feature is to configure it to log certain activities automatically.

Record Journal Entries Automatically

1.	Click Tools.
2.	Click Options. The Options dialog box appears, with the Preferences tab displayed.
3.	Click Journal Options. The Journal Options dialog box appears.
4.	Under Automatically Record These Items, select the check boxes next to the items for which you want to generate automatic journal entries.
5.	Under For These Contacts, select the check box next to each contact for which items should be automatically recorded.
6.	Optionally, in addition to recording activities related to Outlook, you can record activities related to other Office programs. To do so, select the necessary check boxes under Also Record Files From.
7.	Specify whether double-clicking a journal entry opens the entry or opens the item to which the entry refers. ...