The Microsoft Outlook ideas book / Barbara March ; reviewers, Eric Woodford [and others] ; technical editor, Jimmy Karumalil.

Cover -- TOC36;Table of Contents -- Preface -- What This Book Covers -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Conventions -- Reader Feedback -- Customer Support -- Downloading the Example Code for the Book -- Errata -- Questions -- CH36;Chapter 158; The Calendar Folder -- A Meetings Schedule -- Creating the Calendar View -- A Record of Goods or Services -- Creating the Calendar View -- How to Use This View -- A Staff Leave Calendar -- Creating the Calendar View -- A Staff Leave Calendar8212;Daily View by Department -- Creating the Calendar View -- A Staff Leave Calendar8212;Sick Leave View -- Creating the Calendar View -- A Calendar View that Records Conference Costs -- Creating the Calendar View -- A Calendar View that Records Your Expenses -- Creating the Calendar View -- A To Do List for Calendar Items -- Creating the Calendar View -- Summary -- CH36;Chapter 258; The Contacts Folder -- A Distribution Lists View -- Creating the Contacts View -- A View of Suppliers of Goods or Services -- Creating the Contacts View -- Creating Views of Staff Data -- A Length of Service and Leave Entitlement View -- Creating the Contacts View -- Adding Details of Company Vehicles -- A Contacts Folder for Company Vehicles -- Creating the Contacts View -- Summary -- CH36;Chapter 358; The Tasks Folder -- Customizing Tasks Folder Views -- The Assigned to Me View -- The Assigned by Me View -- Tasks Assigned by Me View -- The My Tasks View -- Creating the View -- Number of Days Left to Complete a Task -- Creating the Task -- Linking Tasks to Contacts -- Completed Assigned Tasks -- Creating Tasks for a Workshop -- Completed Tasks -- The Completed Repairs View -- Filtering the View of Completed Repairs -- The Completion Time Analysis View -- Separate Tasks Folders -- A Tasks To Do List -- Reusable Tasks -- Summary -- CH36;Chapter 458; Whole Solutions -- Our Company Solution -- Meeting Room Management -- Creating a Meeting Rooms View -- Creating the Meeting Room Calendar View -- Invoicing Meeting Room Bookings -- Creating the Appointment Form -- Meeting Room Maintenance -- Creating the Calendar View for Bookings and Invoices -- Sales -- Creating the Orders Mail Folder -- Our School Solution -- Creating the Students Contacts Folders -- Creating the Subjects Contacts Folder -- Creating the Teachers Contacts Folder -- Creating the Classrooms Contacts Folder -- Assigning the Classes Calendar Folders -- Creating the Assignments Tasks Folder -- Creating the Journal Reports Folder -- Creating the Notes Folder -- Summary -- IDX36;Index -- Last Page.

A fast-paced guide for instruction and inspiration on creating powerful solutions for small businesses and organizations using Outlook. Throw away your other applications, and learn to use Outlook in practical ways that you never imagined possible!Microsoft Outlook, in tandem with Microsoft Exchange Server, provides a powerful environment for sharing information. This book will show you how to take advantage of that to construct solutions for your business or organization from the features of Outlook. This book is a collection of scenarios that incorporate and link many Outlook components to produce surprisingly powerful functionality:- How to apply the features of Outlook to avoid transferring and duplicating data into other programs- How to expand your view of Outlook and its capabilities- Techniques that will enable you to create your own solutions that are relevant to your situation and environment- The confidence and vision to explore and use existing software to develop your own solutionsWithout the need for code or specially-written applications, you will be extracting information from your Outlook Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folders to create solutions like these:- Monitoring staff leave and printing schedules - Managing meeting rooms and printing invoices - Managing fleet vehicles, their records, and servicing - Managing a school class calendar, student records, attendance, assignments, and reports This book takes a practical, hands-on approach to working with Microsoft Outlook. Carefully structured to lead you through all the steps of each examples, this book will help you to use Outlook in ways you never imagined possible. This book is for users who are comfortable with the basic functions of Outlook, but who want inspiration and direction on manipulating its features to produce powerful methods of viewing, presenting and reporting the wealth of information that it can hold. Users of Microsoft Access and Excel will recognize the functions and constructs used in some of the examples. The techniques in this book are applicable to all versions of Outlook from 2000 upwards. Where there are functional differences between the versions, these have been noted. You need to be running Outlook with MS Exchange Server to use this book.

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