COURSE
DESCRIPTION FOR
MANAGE YOUR TIME EFFECTIVELY USING OUTLOOK 98
Throw away your paper dayplanner and little scraps of paper
with notes, reminders and addresses. Did you know Outlook has many features
to help you manage and organize your life? Outlook lets you manage all your
critical information in one place to reduce typing, save time and increase
productivity. The class is instructor-led with lots of hands-on activities.
Learn to:
- Approach your day from a different perspective.
- Analyze your day and understand the importance of entering
activities into the TaskPad and scheduling appointments.
- Create automatic and manual Journal entries to keep track
of daily activities.
- Organize personal and professional items in personal
folders, public folders and personal distribution lists.
- Recognize the benefits of scheduling appointments for
yourself, creating different types of events, selecting a template for
repeated use of a format, customizing a message form to add preferred field
information and attaching an existing message to a new message.
LENGTH
One four hour session.
PREREQUISITES
Outlook - Level 1, Windows
- Introduction and Word - Level 1. You also need to have a good
understanding of basic Microsoft Windows, file management and personal computers.
SPECIFIC CLASS CONTENT
Lab Activity 1: Approach your day from a different perspective
Analyze how you spend your time
Recognize the need for a plan
Add the details of your day or week
Schedule appointments for time out of the office
Lab Activity 2: Record almost every move you make
Set automatic Journal options
Create an automatic Journal entry
View the automatic Journal entry
Mark the task as complete and manually record it
Lab Activity 3: Organize personal and professional items
Create a personal folder for your expense reports
Create a public folder for meeting minutes
Create a personal distribution list for your tennis league
Mark these tasks as complete and manually record them
Lab Activity 4: Work with what you already know
Use appointments to schedule time for yourself
Create events for a birthday and a vacation
Use a template to save time
Add the Due By field to a message
Attach an existing message to a new message
NECESSARY SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE
- An IBM or IBM-compatible computer equipped with Microsoft
Outlook 98 and Microsoft Office 97.
- A user profile and permission status to create public
folders in Outlook 98.
- A connection to a Microsoft Exchange 5.5. Server.
OTHER OUTLOOK CLASSES
- Outlook - Level 2. Explore
advanced mail, contacts and journal features. Learn to create forms and
templates; customize the Outlook environment; and use remote mail and the
Internet features.
- Outlook in The Law Office.
Customized training covering all the Outlook features that can streamline
your practice.
- Mini Power Sessions
--Integrate Your Palm Pilot With Outlook
--Manage Your Time Effectively With Outlook
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