Programming Applications for Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007

Chapter 10. Organizing Outlook Data

When you complete this chapter, you should have a good understanding of the following areas:

• Overview of organizing information in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

• Using categories and task flagging

• Creating rules programmatically

• Writing code to create a search folder

• Customizing views with new View objects

How Outlook 2007 Helps to Organize Information

Outlook 2007 introduces several new features that help to organize the constantly growing number of items that arrive in a user’s Inbox. Category colors and task flagging are easy to use and provide a simple tool for getting organized. Organizational schemes for mailbox items are almost as varied as the number of Outlook users. The focus of this chapter is not to prescribe ...