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Book Description
Outlook 2003, the latest personal information program from Microsoft Office, provides an integrated solution for managing email messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information. Thanks to a number of valuable upgrades, Outlook 2003 is better equipped than ever. Now you can improve the way you manage information, communicate with others, and organize your work--all from one place. To make absolutely certain that you know when and how to implement all of these powerful new features, O'Reilly has put together the Outlook 2003 Personal Trainer. This fully illustrated book takes a modular approach to learning, allowing you to start with the fundamentals and then work your way up to advanced topics--at your own pace. Designed to get both beginners and experts into tip-top shape, this handy reference is written in a non-technical style that you're bound to find engaging and informative. In addition to many other fundamentals, Outlook 2003 Personal Trainer discusses how you can use the following program elements to your best possible advantage:
- Address Book
- Contacts List
- Calendar
- Task List
- Journal
The book also includes sections on advanced email features, organizing and finding information, collaborating with other users, and retrieving archived items. Every chapter includes detailed diagrams and a review at the end to help you absorb and retain all you have learned. The companion CD tutorial guides you through each lesson interactively. Part of O'Reilly's new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use.
A great book
2006-02-23
It is a great book if you have never used Outlook and you don't need the software on your computer.
The lessons contained on the disc are very detailed and easy to understand as you are walked through. After each lessons there is a quiz to make sure you understand the fundamentals contained in the lesson. The other good thing is you can use the lessons as many times as you like as you can reset the disc. Installation was easy just requiring you to put it in your CD drive.
It is a self paced system and after using it I definitely felt confident. For people learning at home without being on a shared server you can also complete this lesson for shared mailboxes and meeting requests.
A Fun Book
2005-04-08
The colorful comic book cover of this book quickly grabbed my attention. The content of the book really doesn't have much to do with the comic character theme. The book is broken up into small lessons, which is good for someone like myself with a short attention span. This book is very easy to read and very well written, yet it is filled with a lot of humorous examples. I never thought I could enjoy reading a book about Microsoft Outlook, but I've got to admit this one made me laugh out loud at times.
Oh yes, it also comes with a very cool CD-ROM, so you can practice all of the examples on your computer without having to actually the program installed.
Much improved spam filtering? Perhaps
2005-03-30
For millions of users, Microsoft Outlook is how they read and write email. This book explains in easy steps the many features endowed in it. Each chapter is divided into short lessons, with a lesson typically spanning no more than 3 pages. The intent is that a lesson is a very bite-sized set of steps that you can readily comprehend in a few minutes. Regular readers of O'Reilly books will recognise this as similar to their Hacks series in format. Though the Custom Guide books are more vivid, shall we say?
To me, the most interesting lesson was how Outlook deals with spam. The book said earlier versions of Outlook used a filter "that was almost worthless". But the current filter is asserted to be much improved. Though the details are proprietary, it appears to be some type of Bayesian with other techniques like a white list. The subject is scarcely closed. The lesson says that third party filters can also be used, to improve spam detection.
