Customizing Outlook 2007 and Using the Journal

Overview/Description
Microsoft Outlook 2007 is highly customizable. You can tailor the interface by selecting views – or modifying them – to suit your needs. Using a timeline you can track items, such as e-mail or phone conversations, within Outlook itself and also externally. In addition, Outlook allows you to configure and customize multiple e-mail accounts so that you can view e-mail messages from many different accounts within a single Outlook interface. This course demonstrates how to customize Outlook to meet a variety of such requirements, how to track items in Outlook, and how to configure additional e-mail accounts.

Target Audience
Personnel at all levels of the enterprise; end users seeking competency in the use of Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

Prerequisites
The Microsoft Office 2007: Beginning Outlook learning path or equivalent; basic knowledge of word processing and computing; familiarity with the Microsoft Windows Office environment and a basic understanding of the Internet

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Customizing Outlook 2007 and Using the Journal

create a new view in Outlook 2007

customize an Outlook 2007 view

create a custom toolbar

recognize how to customize menus and toolbars

customize the Quick Access toolbar

customize a default view in a given scenario

customize a toolbar in a given scenario

customize the Quick Access toolbar in a given scenario

add a new e-mail account to Outlook 2007

change e-mail account settings in Outlook 2007

remove an e-mail account in a given scenario

add a new e-mail account in a given scenario

modify e-mail account settings, for a given scenario

remove an e-mail account from Outlook in a given scenario

record a Journal entry in a given scenario

recognize how to open and configure the Journal

use the timeline to change the start and end date of a Journal entry in a given scenario

configure automatic tracking for a Journal item in a given scenario

create a new Journal entry in a given scenario