Course Description

This course is the first in a series of three Microsoft® Office Outlook® courses. It will provide you with the skills you need to start sending and responding to email in Microsoft® Outlook® 2007, as well as maintaining your Calendar, scheduling meetings, and working with tasks and notes. In this course, you will compose and send email, schedule appointments and meetings, manage contact information and tasks, and use notes. Course Objective: You will compose and send email, schedule appointments and meetings, manage contact information and tasks, and use notes.

Target Student:

This course is designed for any person with a basic understanding of Microsoft Windows who needs to use Microsoft® Outlook® 2007 to compose and send email, schedule appointments and meetings, manage contact information and tasks, and use notes. In addition, this course helps prepare students who desire to take the Microsoft® Office Specialist certification for Outlook.

Prerequisites: The course requires that you are familiar with using personal computers and have used a mouse and keyboard; basic typing skills are recommended. You should be comfortable in the Windows environment and be able to use Windows to manage information on your computer. Specifically, you should be able to: launch and close programs; navigate to information stored on the computer; and manage files and folders. The following courses are recommended, or you should have equivalent knowledge of: Windows XP Professional: Level 1 Windows XP Professional: Level 2 Windows XP: Introduction Windows 2000: Introduction Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Outlook Topic 1A: Log On to Outlook Topic 1B: Explore the Outlook Interface Topic 1C: Send a Simple Message Topic 1D: Open a Message Topic 1E: Reply to a Message Topic 1F: Print a Message Topic 1G: Delete a Message

Lesson 2: Composing Messages Topic 2A: Address a Message Topic 2B: Format a Message Topic 2C: Check Spelling and Grammar Topic 2D: Attach a File Topic 2E: Forward a Message

Lesson 3: Organizing Messages Topic 3A: Open and Save an Attachment Topic 3B: Flag a Message Topic 3C: Create a Folder Topic 3D: Move Messages to a Folder Topic 3E: Copy Messages to Folders Topic 3F: Move a Folder Topic 3G: Delete a Folder

Lesson 4: Managing Contacts Topic 4A: Add a Contact Topic 4B: Sort Contacts Topic 4C: Find a Contact Topic 4D: Find the Geographical Location of a Contact Topic 4E: Edit a Contact Topic 4F: Send a Contact via Email Topic 4G: Delete a Contact Topic 4H: Print Contacts

Lesson 5: Scheduling Appointments Topic 5A: Explore the Outlook Calendar Topic 5B: Schedule an Appointment Topic 5C: Assign a Category to an Appointment Topic 5D: Update Calendar Entries

Lesson 6: Scheduling Meetings Topic 6A: Schedule a Meeting Topic 6B: Reply to a Meeting Request Topic 6C: Propose a New Meeting Time Topic 6D: Track Meeting Responses Topic 6E: Update a Meeting Request Topic 6F: Cancel a Meeting Request Topic 6G: Print the Calendar

Lesson 7: Managing Simple Tasks Topic 7A: Create a Task Topic 7B: Edit a Task Topic 7C: Update a Task

Lesson 8: Using Notes Topic 8A: Create a Note Topic 8B: Edit a Note Topic 8C: Display a Note on the Desktop

Appendix A: Microsoft Office Specialist Program

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