General Information

Course Duration
4 hours

Audience
Anyone wishing to gain a basic understanding of Outlook 2000; students wishing to become MOUS certified

Prerequisites
Basic familiarity with the Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0/Windows 2000 user environments

Topics Covered

• Introducing Outlook
• Outgoing mail
• Hands-on: Addressing and sending mail
• Incoming mail
• Hands-on: Finding and archiving mail
• Scheduling
• Hands-on: Planning a meeting
• Hands-on: Revising a list of attendees
• Configuring Calendar
• Hands-on: Customizing Calendar view
• Contacts
• Hands-on: Creating and editing a contact
• Tasks
• Hands-on: Assigning tasks
• Notes
• Hands-on: Creating and editing notes
• Categories
• Hands-on: Modifying the Master Category List
• Hands-on: Organizing using categories
• Journals
• Printing
• Hands-on: Printing a calendar

Course Aim

To describe how to use Outlook 2000 in the integration of desktop applications and to show how Outlook 2000 can be used in most organizational and communications tasks; students preparing for the relevant MOUS exams

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the student should be able to

• describe the essential features of Outlook 2000
  
  
• use Outlook 2000 to send and receive mail
  
  
• use Calendar and schedule features
  
  
• create and edit contacts
  
  
• assign tasks
  
  
• organize tasks using categories
  
  
• print output from Outlook 2000