Organizing Information

The key to getting the most value out of Microsoft Outlook is learning how to organize and access your information in the easiest possible manner. If you are like so many other computer professionals, you probably receive 50 to 100 emails per day, have over 200 people in your contacts list (perhaps in the corporate contact list), keep a running set of 30 or more tasks, and keep every email, task assignment, and meeting request you have ever sent. This environment leads to a whole lot of glut. If you cannot manage this information effectively, it all becomes wasted chunks of information.

Microsoft Outlook, thankfully, provides a number of features that turns glut into extremely valuable information. In this section, we are ...

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