Organizing Outlook Email

A practical guide to taming the messages that arrive in your Inbox with step-by-step instructions and tips from people who've used Outlook since 1996.
New! special update for Outlook 2007.

  AN OFFICE WATCH 'Quickie' GUIDE  

by Peter Deegan - co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Office Watch newsletters.

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"Thanks for a great book.  Most e-books are small, almost pamphlets but the Desktop Search Handbook is great value for over 60 pages of info"    - Greg H, Lincoln, Nebraska.

 

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This small ebook is about organising your email in Outlook.   There are many options for arranging things in Outlook and in this short ebook we’ll give you an idea of the many options available to you, how to use them and how to get Outlook to do some of the work for you. 

 

The first section of the ebook will show you all the options for arranging your email, from simply moving messages to sub-folders all the way through to the powerful Search Folder option available in Outlook 2003.

 

Then we’ll look at Outlook Rules, in other words automatic ways to apply some of the organizing options covered in the first section of the ebook.

 

Both these sections include many step-by-step instructions with screen images to help you make use of Outlook’s power, plus examples of how you can apply the various Outlook options.

 

Organizing Outlook Email is for users of Microsoft Outlook, not Outlook Express which is a different program despite the similar name and maker.  Most of the information in this ebook applies to Outlook 2000, 2002 (XP) and 2003, though some features such as Search Folders and some Rules were only introduced with Outlook 2003.

Quickie Guides

This is the first in our new series of ‘Quickie’ guides – short ebooks on a specific topic offered for a low price.  ‘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.  

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. 

Because this is an electronic book you have options not available in 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’s a more convenient and faster version of the traditional table of contents (but we’ve 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’d 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).  Instructions are below.

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