New book provides tips, insider tricks, and sneak peeks for Microsoft Outlook and Exchange
PRINCETON, NJ., August 12 /ZATZ Newswire/ -- ZATZ Publishing, a leading publisher of special-interest online magazines and e-books for technical consumers and IT professionals today published "OutlookPower's Big Book of Tips & Tricks for Outlook and Exchange," the latest in the publishing company's series of technical e-books for IT professionals.
OutlookPower's Big Book of Tips & Tricks for Outlook and Exchange contains 40 powerful tips, insider tricks, and sneak peeks into the future of Outlook and Exchange and full of resources that will help make readers more productive in their daily management of email.
OutlookPower's Big Book of Tips & Tricks for Outlook and Exchange is another in the ZATZ series of Solutions Guides. Each Solutions Guide takes a given topic, like managing Outlook email, and combines all the information readers need in one easy to read and easy to understand Solutions Guide.
This Solutions Guide presents 40 excellent articles from OutlookPower Magazine. Each article has been updated and re-edited for this Solutions Guide. This guide is provided in Adobe Acrobat format and is completely free of advertisements.
Across eight chapters, we've included 40 separate articles from OutlookPower Magazine. The book covers topics that range from maximizing a your ability to manage contacts to protecting yourself against spam and viruses, to a whole load of time savers. Plus, there are a bunch of very informative reviews and a very special, exclusive sneak peak into the future of Outlook and Exchange. Each article has been updated and re-edited for this Solutions Guide.
Here's some what readers will learn in this Solutions Guide:
Chapter 1: Fun with Outlook's Calendar
- How to highlight calendar items with color
- How to use labels to organize your schedule
- How to view a group schedule containing other users' free and busy information
- How to quickly mark or unmark a bunch of appointments Private
- How to use table views to change fields without opening forms
- Great utilities for printing your calendars
- How to display both calendar and task items together in a * * * * * Day/Week/Month calendar view
- How to account for time-zone differences in calendar appointments
- How to update your Outlook 2000 or Outlook 2002 calendar with current holiday lists
- How to add sports team schedules to your Outlook calendar
- Quick ways to create appointments out of email messages
- Fun ways of using natural language to make appointments
- Quick shortcuts to specify dates
- How to set reminders from any folder, not just the inbox
- And more...
Chapter 2: Great tricks for your contacts and lists
- How to avoid "copy and paste" when setting up your contacts
- How to use Smart Tags to insert information into letters
- How to save money and verify postal addresses easily
- How to save time and money printing postage right on your "snail mail" letters
- How distribution lists work
- Quick ways to create distribution lists
- Distribution list "traps" and how to avoid them
- Great money-saving tools for managing and grabbing addresses
- And more...
Chapter 3: Protect yourself, your email, and your computer
- How to protect yourself from Klez and other email viruses
- The limits of a virus scanner and how to make sure you're really protected
- New nasty tricks that can unleash viruses on your computer even if you don't open attachments...and how to protect yourself
- How to recover if you've become infected
- Important reminders about things we all know, but tend to "forget" to do
- How to recover your POP3 server information when it "disappears"
- Tricks to prevent spam
- How network managers can use Exchange to protect against spam
- Dangerous assumptions we all make about being protected against viruses...and how to be sure you're really safe
- Three simple rules you can follow that will make your computer far more secure
- Dangerous programs and tactics you should be sure to steer away from
- And more...
Chapter 4: Vacation wishes and auto-response dreams
- How to control out-of-office replies so they don't make you crazy
- Exchange server tips for managing the vacation "problem"
- How to set up the Out of Office assistant to work while you play
- How to use Rules and Templates to keep communication flowing
- And more...
Chapter 5: Helpful time-savers
- How to manage mail that you need to remember to deal with later
- How to use reminders and flag messages
- How to use Rules to help you keep track of what you need to do
- Lessons learned the hard way -- easy (and dumb) mistakes you can avoid
- How to use HTML to send attractive emails
- How to use, create, and find email stationary that fits the occassion
- Important security issues you'll need to understand to successfully use some stationary
- Dangerous pitfalls you can easily avoid when using Outlook stationary
- Secret(and very helpful) tricks you might not know about * * * * * * StickyNotes in Outlook
- How to use Outlook Views (and why they might hide some of your email)
- How to take advantage of the very powerful, yet often underused filtering capability in Views
- How to very easily add a date stamp to the notes field
- How to create your own custom form
- How to find your lost Outlook items
- The secret hiding places your messages find, but often you can't...unless you know where to look
- Key rules to keep in mind that'll keep your messagees under control
- And more...
Chapter 6: Outlook extensions, add-ons and product reviews
- How to extend Outlook with third party utilities
- A great tool that will let you preview your messages in text mode...without opening the risky HTML
- Another great tool to help you control return receipts (and a lot more)
- Super-powerful tools that take Rules to entirely new levels of capability
- An unusual product that will let you get your Exchange mail over the phone
- Helpful tools that will get you organized
- Interesting resources that might help your business communications
- Helpful tools that will do their best to keep your mailbox organized
- Some amazing search utilities that can find EVERYTHING hidden in your mail folders
- How to keep ACT! contact management information in-sync with Outlook
- And more...
Chapter 7: Advanced topics
- How to use Exchange Server to block spam...without any add-ons
- An amazing trick to help you be sure you're really backing up your Exchange server
- Tricks for automating Outlook Web Access (OWA)
- Important tips for MS Mail users (and die-hard fans)
- Powerful ideas for solving Exchange's requesting data problem
- What not to do when sharing email files on a network
- And more...
Chapter 8: Upgrading Outlook and looking towards future releases
- Important tips for installing Outlook and Office service packs
- Very important update information you need to know if you're still using Outlook 2000
- A sneak preview into the futures of Outlook and Exchange
- And even more amazing stuff...
Each Solutions Guide is subject to the same high editorial standards and impartial perspective ZATZ brings to all publications. By combining a series of articles and tips into one comprehensive, handy, and incredibly useful Solutions Guide, readers will learn how to turn Domino into an interoperating powerhouse.
OutlookPower's Big Book of Tips & Tricks for Outlook and Exchange lists for $39.90, but has an introductory price of $19.95. It is available now from http://store.ZATZ.com.
About ZATZ Publishing
ZATZ Publishing is a leading publisher of special-interest online magazines and e-books for technical consumers and IT professionals. ZATZ publishes popular magazines, including OutlookPower Magazine, Computing Unplugged Magazine, and DominoPower Magazine. Together, these publications have nearly one million readers and are the leading monthly magazines in their markets. ZATZ is also a leading publisher of electronic technical books, with fourteen e-books on the market and more arriving every month. To make the ZATZ Publishing process work, ZATZ developed ZENPRESS, a patent-pending software technology for Internet magazine production. For more information, please visit the ZATZ Web site at http://www.ZATZ.com or call (732) 422-6990.
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