MS Outlook for the Time Challenged

For: All Employees | 4 Hours

Does your email control you? Are you getting all you can out of Outlook? If you have Microsoft Outlook on your computer but only use it for e-mail, you are throwing away about 85% of the power of the software.

In this session participants will learn how to leverage the power of Outlook. As you learn tips and techniques to use all four components of Outlook: Email, Calendar, Contacts & Tasks to better organize yourself.

Manage your Email instead of it managing you.

Understand the 4 D’s of productivity – working from a clean inbox

Use Flagging to process complex work that arrives via e-mail

Sort information using Categories

Create Folder Organization and Folder Management – Your Inbox is NOT a Storage Location

Avoid typing with Quick Parts

Utilize Drafts to save time

Balance your time & priorities with Calendaring techniques.

Learn to pace your day with your calendar

Find work life balance by optimizing your Outlook calendar

Use the Navigation View to maneuver the Calendar effectively

Use Scheduling Techniques for finding best available meeting times

Explore Drag and Drop Calendaring

Find new ideas for using colors in categories

Move to do list items between the Inbox, Calendar and Tasks

Keep track of deadlines & set mini-deadlines

Capitalize on Outlook’s Contact functions to reduce time spent on correspondence.

Use Contact Information to create a letter without retyping

Add Contact Information from an email without typing It

Create Pre-set Distribution lists

Use the technology of Outlook to create Tasks that organize your to-do list.

Create Tasks to help you organize & prioritize reducing procrastination impulses

Create Tasks for other people to do

Drag and Drop Creation

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