Outlook: Efficient Email Management

Take a deeper look at Microsoft Outlook and learn how to use features that will make your email experience faster, more organized, and less stressful.

Introduction

• Save time by managing your Outlook inbox
• Email management
• What you need for this course

1. Review Messages

• Use the Focused Inbox
• Use the Reading Pane
• Mark messages as read or unread
• Use Instant Search to find a message
• Use Advanced Find to locate messages
• Tweak your search options
• View messages by conversation
• Ignore a conversation
• Use Mailbox Cleanup
• Add an app

2. Put Views to Work

• Arrange email by date or sender
• Add a column to a view
• Filter a view
• Save a view
• Change advanced view settings
• Use conditional formatting to highlight important messages
• Create a domain-specific view

3. Get Organized with Folders and Catetgories

• Create Inbox folders
• Move or copy messages
• Add a folder to Favorites
• Use custom search folders
• Customize and use categories
• Archiving and retention: The basics
• Apply a retention label to a message
• Set AutoArchive options

4. Automate Actions with Rules and Quick Steps

• Flag an email
• Use a built-in Quick Step
• Create a custom Quick Step
• Create a rule from a message
• Create a rule from scratch
• Edit and manage email rules

Conclusion

• Next steps