Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007

Using Outlook’s Journal

Outlook’s journal is a lot like a diary in that it contains a record of your daily activities. Unlike a diary, it’s somewhat limited to recording specific records, such as email you send and receive, phone calls you make, and documents you work on. Although it does a good job of automatically tracking your usage of Microsoft Office applications, you must record journal entries for other events or applications yourself.

Among the activities you can automatically record in the journal are:

Email you send and receive to selected contacts

Task requests and responses

Meeting requests, responses, and cancellations

Telephone ...