With this book and Microsoft Outlook 98, you'll learn to: send and receive e-mail within your company and via the Internet using Outlook's support for a wide variety of e-mail services - SMTP/POP3, IMAP4, HTML mail, and more; schedule meetings and share your calendar with others in your company and on the Internet; use Outlook Today - a customizable "home page" from which you can view and manage all the information that's critical to your day; manage your contacts and tasks; and set outlook to automatically handle junk e-mail. This book provides comprehensive preparation for the Microsoft Office User Specialist Proficient exam for Microsoft Outlook 98.

This book provides of hands-exercise and visually teaches the reader how to access all the resources of Outlook and its components, including email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and more. Each page is filled with pictures and explanations that instruct and show the reader exactly what to do, making both the book and the program easy to use. The beginning user will learn to use each of these components and progress to an intermediate level where they learn how to customize each component for maximum results and productivity. Tips and tricks are provided throughout the book.

Demonstrates Outlook's e-mail, address book, newsgroup, contact, calendar, journal and task management features.

Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2000 provides all the information a user, administrator, or programmer needs to maximize their use of Microsoft Outlook 2000. While the book quickly covers the basics of Outlook, it focuses with much greater intensity on advanced information, contact, calendar, and e-mail management techniques -- for both the Internet E-mail Only version of Outlook as well as the Corporate/Workgroup variation. The book covers in great detail the use of Outlook on a LAN as a client for Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Mail, and cc:Mail, and it offers expert advice on a multitude of ways to customize Outlook for maximum personal productivity. Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2000 also includes an entire section on developing Outlook-based applications with custom fields, custom forms, VBScript, and other Office applications.

Microsoft Outlook Programming unleashes the power of Microsoft Outlook, allowing administrators and end users to customize Outlook in the same way that they've used macros and templates to customize other programs like Excel and Word. Experienced developers will find the quick-start information they need to begin integrating Outlook into their applications. Microsoft Exchange administrators will get help automating common tasks such as announcing public folders and importing data to custom forms.Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used email program, and it offers the most programmability. This book introduces key concepts for programming both Outlook forms for storing and exchanging data and Visual Basic for Applications modules that add new features to Outlook. Central to this new edition, which covers both Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002, is awareness of tighter security in Outlook. Designed to prevent transmission of computer viruses, the security restrictions can also get in the way of legitimate programs, but this book offers workarounds within the reach of novice programmers. It also covers many of the new features of Outlook 2002, such as the integrated Outlook View Control and searching across multiple folders using SQL syntax and the Search object.·Building block procedures for the most common Outlook programming tasks·Jargon-free language and practical examples to make the material more accessible to new Outlook programmers·Coverage of Outlook Email Security Update·Coverage of the Office XP Web Services Toolkit