Outlook For Dummies

Learn all about the best application for emailing, scheduling, collaborating, and just plain getting stuff done 

Did you know that Microsoft Outlook can do everything, including cook your dinner? Okay, it can’t cook your dinner. But it can deliver your email, filter out the junk, help you organize your life, sync data to the cloud, integrate with iOS and Android, and about a zillion other things. Outlook For Dummies shows you how to work all the basic and advanced features of the Office 2021 version. 

Outlook is loaded with interesting productivity tools that most people—even in business environments—don’t know about. Did you know you can create automated mail-handling rules? Translate messages into other languages? Share your calendar with other people? It’s true, and when people start wondering how you suddenly got to be so productive, you can tell them: Outlook For Dummies. 

• Take a stroll around the basic interface and emailing capabilities of Outlook for Office 2021 
• Use Outlook to create daily and monthly schedules, manage a to-do list, organize messages into folders, and make notes for later reference 
• Discover advanced and little-known features that will help you get organized and stay on top of things 
• Sync email across your devices and access Outlook from any computer, tablet, or phone 

For users who are brand-new to Outlook and those upgrading to the latest version, this book makes it simple to get going. 

Faithe Wempen, M.A., is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and the author of over 150 books on Windows, Office, and computer technology.

Introduction 1

Part 1: Getting Started with Outlook 9

Chapter 1: A First Look at Outlook 11

Chapter 2: Taking a Tour of the Outlook Interface 25

Chapter 3: Getting on the Fast Track with Handy Shortcuts 43

Part 2: Taming the Email Beast 57

Chapter 4: Email Essentials 59

Chapter 5: Taking Email to the Next Level 81

Chapter 6: Conquering Your Mountain of Messages 103

Chapter 7: Managing Multiple Email Accounts and Data Files 143

Part 3: Keeping Track of Contacts, Dates, Tasks, and More 165

Chapter 8: Your Little Black Book: Managing Your Contacts 167

Chapter 9: Organizing Your Schedule with the Calendar 191

Chapter 10: Staying on Task: To-Do Lists and More 219

Part 4: Taking Outlook to the Next Level 245

Chapter 11: Merging Mail From Outlook to Microsoft Word 247

Chapter 12: Integrating Outlook with Google and iCloud 261

Chapter 13: Outlook for iOS and Android Devices 273

Chapter 14: Seeing It Your Way: Customizing Outlook 285

Part 5: Outlook at Work 305

Chapter 15: Outlook on the Job 307

Chapter 16: Using Outlook on the Web: Your Outlook Away From Outlook 329

Part 6: The Part of Tens 347

Chapter 17: Ten Shortcuts Worth Taking 349

Chapter 18: Ten Things You Can’t Do with Outlook 359

Chapter 19: Ten Things You Can Do After You’re Comfy 365

Index 371

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