These materials cover how to create a contact group, send automatic replies, create rules, and create folders. You will gain experience in organizing your inbox using categories, follow-up flags, groupings, and column headers. We'll also cover advanced delivery options, archiving messages, and recovering deleted messages.
Learning Objectives
- Learn to organize the Inbox
- Use advanced delivery options
- Create Rules, Contact Groups, and Automatic Replies
- Create personal folders
- Delete and recover Outlook items
- Learn how to archive files and folders
- Search messages
Prerequisite Skills
- Compose, format, send, and reply to email messages
- Understand how to use different views
- Use IU's Global Address List to find email addresses
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Outlook: Managing Your Email Contents
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Explore the contents of Outlook: Managing Your Email:
Learn about the Outlook Managing Your Email course.
See the full content for Introducing Outlook Managing Your Email.
Send an email, create and use a contact group, and respond to an email message.
Explore the various ways to organize the inbox, including marking messages as unread, assigning categories, using follow up flags, and sorting messages.
See how to search Outlook for specific messages.
Explore options for sending messages, including delivery and read receipts, importance settings, and sensitivity settings.
Watch a video demonstration about how to configure AutoReplies.
See how to create a rule in Outlook.
Learn how to create a personal folder in Outlook.
Learn how to create Outlook folders on the hard drive.
See the full content for Creating Outlook Folders on the Hard Drive.
Explore AutoArchive settings.
See the full content for Understanding AutoArchive Settings.
See how to manually archive folders.
Learn how to add an address or domain to the Safe Senders list.
Explore the process of deleting and recovering Outlook items.
See the full content for Deleting and Recovering Outlook Items.
Return the Outlook inbox to its previous setup.
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