Clever Outlook Contacts

A practical guide to entering, using and sharing your Outlook Contacts with step-by-step instructions and tips from people who've used Outlook since 1996.
includes special section for Office 2007.

by Peter Deegan - co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Office Watch newsletters.
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Here's the opening pages of Clever Outlook Contacts.  The Table of Contents is here.

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This "small" ebook is about organizing your Contacts list in Outlook. Not only can you save address and phone number information in Outlook but many other pieces of information about people, companies and things.

The original idea for this ebook was a "quickie" guide of around 50-75 pages but it grew and grew until it's now more than double the planned length!

With Outlook Contacts as the central point for all of that information, we'll show you how to put those details into places and in ways that you can use all the time and wherever you are. In this ebook we'll give you an idea of the many options available to you in the Contacts folder.

We'll explain what you can save in a contact (almost anything), how to link contacts to other information, and how to view the information even when you don't have a computer.

There is now an extra chapter on the changes in Outlook 2007 including an in-depth look at the improved Categories support and the vastly changed Business Cards feature. Business Cards have changed in Outlook 2007 to the point where they can be useful!

The first section of the ebook will show you all of the options for saving contact information, beyond the obvious things like address and phone numbers.

Then we'll look at Contact views, the many different ways to view and find the information you've saved within Outlook.

We have a whole chapter on merging contact information with Word documents, from inserting a single address to doing a full mail merge to letters, emails or faxes.

Linking Outlook to your desktop or laptop is a powerful way to leverage the information you've entered. You can make Outlook dial phone numbers for you and detect incoming calls.

We'll show you how to link Outlook to your mobile phone, PDA and even some MP3 players. After those Contact basics we'll look at some of the clever things that you can do:

  • Track upcoming birthdays and anniversaries.
  • Quickly update contacts.
  • Synchronize contacts to your Pocket PC.
  • Instead of entering phone numbers into your mobile phone – just copy them from Outlook – we'll show you how.
  • Printing out contact lists for a paper diary, desk reference or office list.
  • Getting Outlook to dial your phone calls.
  • Using Outlook to make the best Caller ID system that you'e ever seen.
  • Using distributions lists and why you might avoid them.
  • Getting maps and driving directions from Outlook.

Clever Outlook Contacts – an Office Watch guide Introduction - Ebook power

  • Share your contact info with other people, not just Outlook users.
  • Save your contact information to other services like Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail.
  • Import contact information from another program or service into Outlook.
  • Export contact data to other programs or services.
  • Creative uses for contacts beyond people and companies.

As usual for Office Watch publications, we won't just tell you what works in Outlook, but what doesn't work the way you expect or could work better.

There are plenty of full color example images throughout the ebook. Clever Outlook Contacts is for users of Microsoft Outlook. Most of the information in this ebook applies to Outlook 2000, Outlook 2002 (XP) and Outlook 2003 in addition to Outlook 2007. It does not cover Outlook Express which is a different program despite the similar name and being from the same maker.

This is the second in our new series of 'Quickie' guides – short ebooks on a specific topic offered for a low price. The first was a companion guide – Organizing Outlook Email.

'Quickie' guides are not intended to be full size ebooks like Office Extras Handbook or Eye-catching Signs with Word but rather a comprehensive view to meet a particular need and at a low price.

Ebook power

Like the Desktop Search Handbook and Office Extras Handbook and Eye-catching Signs with Word, Organizing Outlook Email takes advantage of the flexibility in e-books. This is an electronic book and therefore you have options that you don' have with dead tree (paper) publications. With Adobe Acrobat e-books you can navigate using the bookmarks pane on the left to jump around the e-book, and so it' a more convenient and faster version of the traditional table of contents (but we'e still included a TOC below). Searching. Use the Find or Search commands (under the Edit menu) in the Acrobat Reader to quickly locate what you need.

Searching. Naturally this handbook can be indexed and searched by any Desktop Searching program that indexes the content of PDF files. Just save it to a folder that is indexed and the Desktop Searching program should do the rest. There are lots more detail about this in our Desktop Search Handbook.

Bookmarks. Choose View | Navigation Tabs | Bookmarks to see a tree view of the headings in the handbook. Click on any heading to jump to that section. This is similar to the Document Map feature in Microsoft Word.

Resizing. You can change the Zoom setting in Acrobat Reader to make the text larger and easier to read.

Comments. You can add your own comments and notes to an ebook – see the Comments menu in Acrobat Reader.

Attachments. PDF files can contain documents within them for you to save onto your computer – much in the same way that email messages can have file attachments. Using this feature we can give you examples to try and use anyway you' like. Choose View | Navigation Tabs | Attachments in Acrobat Reader v7 or Documents | File Attachments in Acrobat Reader v6.

Color. To put full color images in a paper book greatly increases the cost but we can include them in our ebooks without increasing the price you pay. Full color images are especially useful in demonstrating some software features like color coding in Outlook.

Printing. We let you print out all or part of ebook for your own use (many ebook publishers do not).

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