Outlook 2002: Level 1

Course Description

Overview:   Students will use Microsoft Outlook 2002 as a tool for communication and organization. Topics covered include sending, receiving, and organizing messages, scheduling appointments, events, and meetings, using contacts, creating tasks and using notes. The course is suitable for persons preparing to be certified Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) in Outlook.

Prerequisites:

·     Windows 2000: Introduction:

This course assumes that you have used a mouse and a keyboard and are able to navigate within the Windows environment. It also assumes that you are familiar with the concept of e-mail as a communication tool.

Performance-Based Objectives

Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• send a mail message, change message formatting, attach a file to a message, check the spelling and grammar, create a message with voting buttons, and send a message to a single user and to multiple users.
• open an unread message and reply to it, open and save a message attachment, print a message, forward a message, mark a message as unread, and delete a message.
• schedule an individual and a recurring appointment and an event, and edit, delete, and restore an appointment. You will also print the calendar in two different views.
• schedule a meeting and reserve meeting resources, reply to a meeting request, propose a new meeting time, update a meeting, track meeting responses and attendee status, and cancel a meeting.
• add and edit a contact, and sort and find contacts.
• create and edit a task and display a task list, mark a task as complete, and delete a task.
• sort messages, create personal folders and subfolders, move messages between folders, rearrange folders and subfolders and search for messages.
• create, display and resize,note, assign contacts to notes and assign categories to notes.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Sending Messages

          Topic 1A: Compose and Send a Message

          Topic 1B: Change Message Format

          Topic 1C: Check Spelling and Grammar

          Topic 1D: Attach File to Message

          Topic 1E: Create and Add a Signature To a Message

          Topic 1F: Send a Message with Voting Buttons

Lesson 2: Acting On Messages

          Topic 2A: Open a Message

          Topic 2B: Open Message Attachment

          Topic 2C: Save Attachment

          Topic 2D: Reply to Message

          Topic 2E: Print Message

          Topic 2F: Mark Message Unread

          Topic 2G: Reply to a Voting Button Message

          Topic 2H: Recall a Message

          Topic 2I: Delete a Message

Lesson 3: Scheduling Appointments and Events

          Topic 3A: Add an Appointment to the Calendar

          Topic 3B: Schedule a Recurring Appointment

          Topic 3C: Assign Category to an Appointment

          Topic 3D: Edit an Appointment

          Topic 3E: Delete an Appointment

          Topic 3F: Schedule an Event

          Topic 3G: Print Calendar

Lesson 4: Scheduling Meetings

          Topic 4A: Schedule a Meeting

          Topic 4B: Reply to a Meeting Request

          Topic 4C: Propose a New Meeting Time

          Topic 4D: Update Meeting Request

          Topic 4E: Cancel Meeting

Lesson 5: Using Contacts

          Topic 5A: Add a Contact

          Topic 5B: Sort Contacts

          Topic 5C: Find a Contact

          Topic 5D: Edit a Contact

          Topic 5E: Create a Custom Category

Lesson 6: Creating Tasks

          Topic 6A: Create a Task

          Topic 6B: Update a Task

          Topic 6C: Update Task List

          Topic 6D: Assing Task to Contact

Lesson 7: Managing Messages

          Topic 7A: Sorth Messages

          Topic 7B: Create a New Folder

          Topic 7C: Move Messages Between Folders

          Topic 7D: Move Folders

          Topic 7E: Delete a Subfolder

          Topic 7F: Search for Messages

Lesson 8: Using Notes

          Topic 8A: Create a Note

          Topic 8B: Move a Note

          Topic 8C: Resize a Note

          Topic 8D: Assign Contacts to Notes

          Topic 8E: Assign Categories to Notes