Microsoft Outlook 98 for Exchange 5.x: Getting Started

General Information

Course Duration
5 hours

Audience
Users who are starting to work with Outlook 98 as an Exchange client for sending and receiving e-mail

Prerequisites
Basic familiarity with the Windows 95 user environment

Topics Covered

Introducing Outlook and Exchange
  • What are Outlook and Exchange?
  • Starting Outlook
  • Exploring the Outlook interface
Sending mail
  • Creating an e-mail message
  • Message formatting
  • Message delivery options
Sending files and attachments
  • Inserting files and objects
  • Hands-on: Sending an attached file
  • Stamping your signature
Dealing with incoming mail
  • Opening mail
  • Replying to mail
  • Hands-on: Sending a reply
  • Managing incoming mail
Organizing addresses
  • Using an Address Book
  • Personal distribution lists
  • Hands-on: Creating a personal distribution list

Course Aim

To familiarize students with the Outlook environment and to enable them to work with e-mail, personal folders, and address books

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the student should be able to

  • describe the Outlook environment

  • create and format mail

  • explain how to attach and embed files in mail messages

  • decribe how to open, reply to, and manage incoming mail

  • decribe how to create and use addresses

  • create distribution lists



Course Incorporates: Test, hands-on exercises