Microsoft Outlook © is software that resides on your local computer. Don't confuse Outlook Express, which only provides email services, with Outlook. Outlook not only provides robust email services, but is also a Personal Information Manager (PIM): it helps you manage your Contacts (Address Book), your Action Items (To Do List and Flagged items), and your Calendar (Schedule). Outlook is highly flexible and customizable to suit your work habits.
When Outlook is teamed with Exchange Server, it becomes a powerful group collaboration tool that enables you to schedule meetings with others and share information within your workgroups.
Navigating this web
The navigation buttons on the left of your screen point to major areas of interest within this web. While you are in one of those areas, you will see links related to that area at the top and the bottom of each page.
You may also go to the Search Page and perform a keyword search.
Key Areas of Interest
Each Outlook Item has its own section: Calendar, Contacts, Inbox (Email), Journal, Notes, and Tasks.
The Configuration section explains the initial configuration and setup of Outlook, Views explains the many options that are configurable by the user in order to work with Outlook data, and the Folders section explains the differences between Exchange Folders, Personal Folders, and Public Folders and how to use them.
Categories and Flags explain key Outlook productivity features that can be used with multiple Outlook Items.
Help and Glossary are supplementary Outlook support pages
This page was last edited on 06/07/2001.