Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out) [Paperback]

Jim Boyce (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735615144 | ISBN-13: 978-0735615144 | Publication Date: November 19, 2003

Hey, you know your way around an inbox—so now dig into Outlook 2003 and really get your communications and workday under control! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds all in concise, fast-answer format. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks, and challenge yourself to new levels of Outlook mastery!

• Configure core to advanced setup options—customizing Outlook to work your way
• Learn ultra efficient—and automatic—ways to manage your messages, calendar, tasks, notes, and contacts
• Implement security zones, virus protection, information rights management (IRM), junk e-mail filters, and other security features
• Go mobile—working offline or through HTTP, a VPN, or Outlook Web Access
• Set up Windows SharePoint Services, shared calendars, and public folders for easy collaboration on projects
• Manage and support Outlook as a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 client
• Use script and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to create custom forms and applications

CD features:

• Complete eBook in PDF format
• Insider Extras—including sample scripts and templates
• Catalog of Outlook resources with links to third-party tools and demos
• Microsoft resources and demos, including Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 eBook
• Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, eBook—10,000+ entries

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About the Author

Jim Boyce has authored or coauthored more than 45 books about computer hardware and software, including Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Plain & Simple and Microsoft Outlook Version 2002 Inside Out. He is a former contributing editor and monthly columnist for WINDOWS Magazine. He has worked with computers as a programmer and systems manager in a variety of capacities since the 1970s, and has a wide range of experience in the MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, and UNIX environments.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1168 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735615144
• ISBN-13: 978-0735615144
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #779,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More About the Author

Jim Boyce has authored or coauthored more than 45 books about
computer hardware and software, including Microsoft Outlook Version 2002
Inside Out. He is a former contributing editor and monthly columnist for
WINDOWS Magazine. He has been involved with computers as a programmer and
systems manager in a variety of capacities since the late 1970s. He has a
wide range of experience in the MS-DOS®, Microsoft Windows®, Microsoft
Windows NT®, and UNIX environments.

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72 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed treatment of Outlook 2003 for power users, April 11, 2005

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This review is from: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out) (Paperback)

"Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out" from Microsoft Press is geared toward intermediate and advanced users of the latest version of Outlook, which has become a bloatware office tool that surpasses Lotus Notes in functions and complexity. If you want to become a true expert at using Outlook, or plan to deploy and manage Outlook at your enterprise, or have to take some MS Office certification exams in order to advance your career, you'll find this book immensely useful. In fact, this is simply the best advanced treatment of Outlook 2003, bar none.

Ok, I say this partly because I'm a fan of the Inside Out series, which is not only informative and helpful for those who want to master Microsoft's increasingly monstrously complicated software, but also highly accurate and authoritative. These latter features are very important and beneficial to the reader. "Inside Out" books don't claim to give you "inside secrets" or "Easter eggs" or "undocumented tweaks" -- even though they do offer such gems here and there -- instead they focus in giving you every iota of detail you'll need in order to power-use and troubleshoot each program.

"Outlook 2003 Inside Out" continues this well-written, well-edited tradition of the series. It's thick and heavy at over 1,000 pages -- with another 100 "bonus" pages on Visual Basic and other topics on the accompanying CD-ROM, in addition to the complete e-book itself -- but it's quite easy to navigate thanks to a well thought-out organization. Almost no stone is left unturned in the coverage of Outlook 2003's vast amount of features (but I'm sure there are minute details that even a book this size and scope has left out), and each feature is treated in great detail, sometimes to the point of overwhelming. Thankfully, lots of screenshots grace the pages to illustrate various dialog boxes. Throughout the book you'll also find lots of genuinely useful tips, set apart from the main text in boxes and a different font.

I don't meant to sound pretentious, but this book is not a good one for newcomers to Outlook. Its coverage and content will simply overwhelm someone not already familiar with the basics of Outlook 2003. A better guide for beginners is the excellent "Microsoft Office 2003 Inside Out" which introduces all the programs in the Office 2003 suite. While that book is by no means a prerequisite for reading the present volume -- many other books will do, or just explore Outlook on your own the way genuine geeks do without reading a manual -- it gives the reader enough grounding in Outlook fundamentals that he'll find migrating to this present book a joy in his journey to conquering the beast of Outlook 2003.

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Detailed Coverage of Outlook 2003, March 11, 2005

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The Alchemist "alchemista" (Orlando, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out) (Paperback)

This book has excellent coverage of Outlook 2003. It is extremely thorough, covering every menu option in detail. My favorite part of the book is that it covers tips and tricks that are undocumented in Outlook's help. For example, it will tell you how to go to the filesystem to make a change to an Outlook file to fix a problem.

There are also excellent comparisons between previous versions of Outlook and 2003. The author obviously knows Outlook "inside out".

This book is probably a little too much for a complete computer beginner, but if you've used Office products before even somewhat, then you should be able to understand the information in this book.

Overall, excellent reference material and a great source of tips and tricks for Outlook 2003!

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive, but still some holes, November 21, 2005

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Darrell Gordon "Winds Aloft" (Raleigh, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out (Bpg-Inside Out) (Paperback)

Previous reviewer's comments are noted well, but I was somewhat disappointed in the coverage of forms development. I really wanted to learn to move/place fields on a contact form and designate them drop-down, etc. Simple enough, I thought, for a book of this coverage. But even though the author talked about the abilitiy to do this, there were no directions, no examples, and no description of the 'Controls' options required to do it. For a book of this size and price, I had hoped for more meat. No, not to the detail of VB scripting, but certainly more detailed coverage of Outlook's powerful forms and macro abilities. To my chagrin, I'm finding my answers under the Outlook 'Help' section in the program itself!