Microsoft Outlook is a desktop information management program in which you can organize and share many different types of information. When you use Outlook, you can keep track of personal information, share information with other members of your workgroup, and communicate with people in your company or on the Internet. This introductory chapter summarizes what you can do with Outlook, provides some tips and background information to help you set up Outlook, gives you a tour of the different Outlook components, and shows you how to move around in the program and access the different types of information it manages. It also offers a few pointers on using the chapters in this part of the book.