Course Description

This course is the third in a series of Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 courses. It builds on the email and calendaring skills you've already obtained and will provide you with the skills needed to communicate in real time with other users, personalize mail, organize items, share and link contacts, create forms, and work offline and remotely.
Course Objective: You will communicate using Instant Messaging, personalize and organize your mail, organize Outlook items, share and link contacts, create forms, and work offline and remotely.

Target Student: Persons with an intermediate understanding of Outlook who need to use Outlook to communicate using Instant Messaging, personalize and organize their mail, organize Outlook items, share and link contacts, create forms, and work offline and remotely.

Prerequisites: This course assumes that you are able to use Windows to manage information on your computer and that you have an intermediate knowledge of Outlook. The following courses (or equivalent knowledge thereof) are required: Either Windows XP: Introduction or Windows 2000: IntroductionWindows XP Professional: Levels 1 & 2 (if using Windows XP)Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003: Levels 1 & 2Microsoft® Office Word 2003: Level 1

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Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Communicate using MSN Messenger.
• Personalize your mail by using stationery and signatures.
• Organize Outlook items by grouping, creating Search Folders, setting rules, and applying conditional formatting.
• Use contacts to share, link, and communicate information.
• Save and archive mail.
• Create a custom form.
• Set up your computer for offline and remote use.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Communicating Using MSN Messenger
Topic 1A: Obtain a Hotmail Account
Topic 1B: Add Contacts
Topic 1C: Send and Receive Instant Messages
Topic 1D: Attach a File
Topic 1E: Change MSN Messenger Status
Topic 1F: Change MSN Messenger Options

Lesson 2: Personalizing Your Mail
Topic 2A: Use Stationery
Topic 2B: Create Custom Stationery
Topic 2C: Create Signatures
Topic 2D: Modify Signatures

Lesson 3: Organizing Outlook Items
Topic 3A: Group Items
Topic 3B: Create Search Folders
Topic 3C: Create Rules
Topic 3D: Apply Conditional Formatting

Lesson 4: Working with Contacts
Topic 4A: Forward Contacts
Topic 4B: Create a vCard from a Contact
Topic 4C: Export Contacts
Topic 4D: Perform a Mail Merge
Topic 4E: Link Items to a Contact

Lesson 5: Saving and Archiving Mail
Topic 5A: Save Messages in Alternate Formats
Topic 5B: Archive Messages
Topic 5C: Protect Personal Folders

 

 

 

Lesson 6: Creating a Custom Form
Topic 6A: Add Form Fields
Topic 6B: Save a Form
Topic 6C: Test a Form

Lesson 7: Working Offline and Remotely
Topic 7A: Create an Offline Folder File
Topic 7B: Make a Folder Available Offline
Topic 7C: Create a Send/Receive Group
Topic 7D: Download Messages

Appendix A: Public Folders

Appendix B: Newsgroups