Microsoft Office 2000: Advanced Outlook

General Information

Course Duration
4 hours

Audience
Anyone wishing to understand Outlook 2000 at an advanced level; students wishing to become MOUS certified at Master level

Prerequisites
Basic familiarity with the Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0/Windows 2000 user environments and completion of Microsoft Office 2000: Beginning Outlook or equivalent familiarity with Office 97

Topics Covered

  • Enhancing mail
  • Hands-on: Creating and adding a vCard
  • Organizing mail
  • Hands-on: Creating a personal address book
  • Remote and offline mail
  • Hands-on: Creating a synchronization group
  • Calendaring and Internet scheduling
  • Hands-on: Configuring Calendar options
  • The Outlook fax service
  • Hands-on: Creating and sending a fax
  • Newsreader
  • About sharing folders
  • Hands-on: Sharing folders
  • Customizing Outlook
  • Hands-on: Customizing Outlook Today
  • Forms
  • Hands-on: Creating and modifying a form
  • Integrating data
  • Advanced contacts
  • Hands-on: Integrating contacts
  • Advanced tasks
  • Hands-on: Recording tasks with Journal

Course Aim

To give students an in-depth understanding of the integrated features of Outlook 2000, to demonstrate collaboration over the Internet, and to show how to customize Outlook 2000 for optimal performance

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the student should be able to

  • use advanced Outlook 2000 mailing features

  • schedule meetings over the Internet

  • customize Outlook Today

  • create and modify forms

  • use the integrated features of Outlook 2000