Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003

With Outlook 2003, you can better manage the details of your life. Not only is Outlook an email and contacts manager (as you learned in Hour 15, "Communicating with Outlook 2003"), but Outlook also manages your calendar, to-do tasks , and other items that help you perform your routine duties . In this hour, you'll learn how to use Outlook's calendar for keeping track of appointments and scheduling reminders for those appointments. In addition, you will learn how to use Outlook's secondary features such as journaling and notes management.

The highlights of this hour include the following:

How to navigate through the Calendar views
How to schedule meetings and events
Which tools help you manage tasks
How to use Outlook to keep notes
When the Journal tracks items automatically
How to incorporate smart tags to make it easier to locate and create new Outlook contacts and appointments