Microsoft Outlook 2000 for Windows for Dummies [Paperback]

Bill Dyszel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0764504711 | ISBN-13: 978-0764504716 | Edition: 1

Deep space adventurers have control panels on their spaceships, explorers in the Wild West had their faithful guides, and detectives have their little black books. Why? Because every adventurer knows how important it is to have good information. Knowing about the people with whom you're dealing, the things you need to do, and when you have to do them can make a difference between triumph and failure.

Okay, maybe your daily adventures aren't exactly life-and-death struggles, but having a tool to help you keep a handle on what you need to do and whom you need to see from day to day is really nice. Microsoft Outlook 2000 has become that tool for millions of professionals – and probably you, too! Outlook 2000 is a Personal Information Manager that can act as your assistant in dealing with the flurry of small, but important, details that stand between you and the work that you do.

But how do you get started with Outlook 2000 if you've never used it before? How do you make sense of all those buttons and windows? And how do you actually get something accomplished after you figure all that out? Let Microsoft Outlook 2000 For Windows For Dummies come dashing to your rescue. This easy-to-understand guide can make organizing your daily information easy by helping you bring together everything you need to know about your daily tasks, appointments, and e-mail messages into one convenient program.

Here are just a few things you can find in Microsoft Outlook 2000 For Windows For Dummies:

• Understanding the Outlook interface and finding the right View for you
• Using e-mail and filtering junk e-mail
• Setting up your contacts
• Scheduling appointments and meetings
• Tracking your task list
• Keeping an automatic journal in Outlook
• Sharing folders over the Internet
• Top Ten lists for creating better e-mail messages, using Outlook on the Internet, and finding shortcuts in Outlook

So whether you're using Outlook for the first time or you're an experienced user looking for ways to streamline Outlook, Microsoft Outlook 2002 For Windows For Dummies can help you organize your daily details and get back to business.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The latest release of Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft's tool for managing time, tasks, contacts, and resources at a personal level, runs more smoothly and has more features than any of its predecessors. Microsoft Outlook 2000 for Dummies shows you--without wasting time--how to use this powerful program.

Author Bill Dyszell dedicates much of this book to electronic mail. Though readers get a thorough overview of how to configure Outlook to retrieve e-mail from a mail server on the Internet, the author (perhaps unfairly) assumes that users on a local area network (LAN) have access to an organizational guru to configure their mail for them. Once you get connected, you can count on this book to explain how to filter, sort, store, track, and otherwise use Outlook to get the most out of e-mail. You'll also find explanations of related features, like the Contact List and Tasks List.

Dyszel pays a fair amount of attention to the ways in which you can customize Outlook. That's important, because customization can significantly improve Outlook's usefulness and it's one of the program's least intuitive capabilities.

Microsoft Outlook 2000 for Dummies also shows you how to fix up the button bar to your liking, as well as how to add and delete columns in tables and modify sort sequences. The book also shows how to add custom fields to Outlook's forms. --David Wall

From the Back Cover

Tips and shortcuts to save you time and trouble!

Find out how to use Outlook with the Internet!

Your first aid kit for prioritizing e-mail and tracking to-dos Want to create order out of chaos? This friendly guide can help get you there. Use the tips inside to pull all your information - appointments, e-mail, contacts, and more - into one handy package. You'll discover how to streamline file sharing and mail merges so you can get down to business, free up some time, and get a life!

Discover how to: Add tasks in a flash Create contact records Flag messages for reminders Tailor options to your needs Share schedules and files Subscribe to newsgroups

The Dummies Way(TM) Explanations in plain English "Get in,get out" information Icons and other navigational aids Tear-out cheat sheet Top ten lists A dash of humor and fun

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (May 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764504711
• ISBN-13: 978-0764504716
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,447,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #53 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Office 2000

More About the Author

Bill Dyszel, the author of 18 books including Microsoft Outlook for Dummies and PalmPilot for Dummies, is also a regular contributor to national publications such as PC Magazine.

Bill is also an accomplished entertainer. He sang with the New York City Opera for 14 years and appeared frequently on the New York stage as well many television programs. He has over 40 short films to his credit and he is the most prolific contributor to the 48-Hour Film Project, an international filmmaking competition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

73 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars offices underrated piece of the puzzle, December 14, 1999

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Lystra Pitts (Reno, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2000 for Windows for Dummies (Paperback)

If you are anything like me you have been using excell and word everyday for years never really delving into Outlook because it looked silly and confusing well i started using outlook 98 and it is AWESOME it does so much more than email I keep my entire company focused and task oriented using outlook. Get this great book and start using outlook today you will be suprized how much is there for you to use.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outlook is complicated, this book is simple and worth it, October 8, 2001

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Schrade (Glendale, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 2000 for Windows for Dummies (Paperback)

Outlook is a great, albeit complex, program. It is impossible for a book (especially a Dummies book) to be an authoritative text on the program. But Outlook for Dummies goes a long way to giving a user or even an administrator of a mid-sized operation essential information to get started and use Outlook effectively. For advanced features, I depended on MS Press Book "Running Outlook 2000". Dummies has a wide breadth of information which is simple, readable and applicable to practical use of MS Outlook in an office environment.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars basic information, nothing very deep, June 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Outlook 98 For Windows For Dummies (Paperback)

I bought this book after using Outlook98 for approximately one week. During that week, I was self tought, and purchased the book because I was looking for something that could give me more than I could teach myself. What I found was disappointing. The book is essentially a walk through of the simple features of Outlook. It provides a basic overview, but lacks the depth in any one subject that I hoped to find.