Outlook 2003: Level 3

 Course Description

Overview: Students will communicate using Instant Messaging, personalize and organize your mail, organize Outlook items, share and link contacts, create forms, and work offline and remotely.

Prerequisites: Windows 2000 or Windows XP; Outlook 2003: Level 1; Outlook 2003: Level 2; or equivalent knowledge.

 

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

Obtain a Hotmail Account

Add Contacts

Send and Receive Instant Messages

Attach a File

Change MSN Messenger Status

Change MSN Messenger Options

Lesson 2: Personalizing Your Mail

Use Stationery

Create Custom Stationery

Create Signatures

Modify Signatures

Lesson 3: Organizing Outlook Items

Group Items

Create Search Folders

Create Rules

Apply Conditional Formatting

Lesson 4: Working with Contacts

Forward Contacts

Create a vCard from a Contact

Export Contacts

Perform a Mail Merge

Link Items to a Contact

Lesson 5: Saving and Archiving Mail

Save Messages in Alternate Formats

Archive Messages

Protect Personal Folders

Lesson 6: Creating a Custom Form

Add Form Fields

Save a Form

Test a Form

Lesson 7: Working Offline and Remotely

Create an Offline Folder File

Make a Folder Available Offline

Create a Send/Receive Group

Download Messages

Appendix A: Public Folders

Appendix B: Newsgroups