Microsoft Outlook 2010 Inside Out (Inside Out (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

Jim Boyce (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 18, 2010 | Series: Inside Out (Microsoft)

You're beyond the basics, so dive right in and really take control of your communications and workday! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts manage Outlook 2010 -- and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.

• Customize and configure Outlook 2010 with advanced setup options
• Organize and share your calendar, tasks, and notes to optimize efficiency
• Learn expert ways to manage your contacts and other critical data
• Extend the power of Outlook by using it with Microsoft Word, Access®, and Excel®
• Collaborate through Microsoft SharePoint® 2010 libraries and files
• Implement virus protection, encryption, spam filters, and other security features
• Perform Outlook tasks through a Web browser or with a mobile device
• Configure Outlook as a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 client

The book website includes a fully searchable online edition of this book, with unlimited access on the Web.

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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: 1120 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (August 18, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735626863
• ISBN-13: 978-0735626867
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #8 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Outlook
  • #13 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Scheduling & E-mail

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.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Where's the the usual digital copy., November 14, 2010

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Colin Mcgregor (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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I travel a lot and one of the main reasons I buy the Inside Out series of manuals is for the soft copy so I do not have to lug 5lbs of book around. The front cover refers to the back cover that then refers to the inside of the back cover to get details of you gain access to online version of book and guess what? There are no instructions.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Some information here is just blatantly wrong, April 1, 2011

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Philip Schlesinger - See all my reviews

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It is now well documented that Outlook 2010 no longer tracks tasks and journal entries under the activities section of a contact. Whether this a known bug they are going to fix or a change by design that they are not going to fix is completely unclear. The responses from Microsoft are inconsistent according to those who have logged help requests and posted their experiences on forums. Is the elimination of CRM like features in Outlook 2010 a cynical ploy to convert/force users to Microsoft's Dynamics CRM 2011 (at $44/user/month)?

Regardless, the features doesn't work, but based on this book I thought Outlook 2010 would give me some nice CRM functionlity for my company. The book provides step by step instructions for using this non-existent functionality (there is a detailed section in the book called "Connecting journal activities to individual contacts" teaching us how to connect journal activities to contacts. Figure 22-11 provides a beautiful diagram of the journal entry, having been associated with the contact, now dazzlingly displayed in the contact's activities section, as if somewhere, somehow, this functionality really did exist. The section ends with "this is just one more way outlook 2010 keeps all your information interconnected"). But its not true, the information is not connected, and if you had the information connected in 2007, it is now disconnected. For many users, it makes Office 2010 a downgrade from 2007, and it makes the information on the topic in this book 100% incorrect.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Book itself is great but no CD and getting online version is hassle, February 15, 2011

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Walter Healy (Brooklyn, NY, US) - See all my reviews

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I received my Microsoft Outlook 2010 Inside Out today and had the same bad experience as Messrs. McGregor and McGuire: no clue in the book itself as to how to get the online version referred to prominently on the front and back covers of the book. Tomorrow I will follow the instructions in the post of December 14, 2010 from Harold Laroux of O'Reilly Media by calling their customer service. I hope this works successfully.
In general, customers should not be misled and subjected to inconvenience this way. The book I received was new but not shrink-wrapped. Amazon should insert by hand inside the back cover the information from Mr. LaRoux's December 14 post. Microsoft and O'Reilly Media should make sure that future printings of the book include the "scratch off voucher card" referred to by Mr. Laroux.
The book itself is comprehensive and well-written. I have already read a number of entries that will be helpful to me. Mr. Boyce has done a great job. I was a beta user of Office 2010 and my understanding is that the Outlook component was the one most changed in Office 2010 from Office 2007. Many of the functions and features in Outlook 2010 are not intuitive or easy to find. This book will be a major contributor to my getting the most out of Outlook 2010.
A few subjective nitpicks: The type face in the book could have been a bit bigger and darker to make the text easier to read. The illustrations are helpful but tiny and hard to read. I hope when I get the online edition I can make adjustments to fix these problems for myself.
Walter Healy, New York City