Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Improving Your Outlook

Entering contacts in your Contacts folder is relatively straightforward. However, you can do some interesting and helpful things with those contacts to boost your productivity. Begin by assigning a category to each and every contact item. This process can be a bit tedious at first, but once you have all of your contacts categorized, you can use those categories to easily find contacts, share contacts, and perform various advanced tasks such as mail merges with contacts.

There are three easy ways to assign categories to a large number of contacts. You can select multiple contacts and assign categories en masse; you can assign categories by dragging and dropping your contacts; or, you can turn on in-cell editing and type ...