outlook is a personal information
manager produced by Microsoft and is
part of the Microsoft Office suite
although outlook is primarily used as an
email application it also provides an
interactive calendar a contact list and
a task management system a journal and
more we're currently in the outlook
today view which is the default view for
Outlook here we have a menu bar a
standard toolbar and a web toolbar the
toolbars have a number of buttons that
are shortcuts for actions that you take
on a frequent basis
if any of the toolbars are not visible
you can turn them on by selecting view
toolbars toolbars that are currently
displayed will have a check beside them
if there's no check click the toolbar
name to turn it on in any Microsoft
product you can often find multiple ways
to accomplish a task in the upper right
corner is a help feature to help with
tasks that you're unsure of here you can
type in a keyword or a question to
easily search for information on how to
use a particular feature all of this is
pretty common in Microsoft but over to
the left is really the core of Outlook
here we have the navigation pane from
the navigation pane you can access your
calendar contacts tasks or your mail
let's take a look at the mail section
the default is personal folders so
you'll see the outlook today section on
the right as long as personal folders is
selected from this mail section you can
access your inbox your sent items and
other mail folders in the calendar
section of Outlook you can enter your
appointments and view them in various
formats
the Outlook calendar not only helps you
keep track of your appointments it can
send you reminders and work with other
features of Outlook such as contacts
mail or tasks in the contacts section
you can keep track of friends family
business contacts and more think of it
as your personal electronic address and
phone directory in the tasks section you
can create to-do lists for your daily
activities outlook can be as simple or
as complex as you need it to be it's up
to you to decide how you want to use
this software