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Outlook 2016 Essentials

Learners will be able to use Outlook to enhance professional correspondence, create calendars, and schedule appointments.  Participants will create and edit professional-looking email messages, maintain calendars across time zones, and schedule tasks for a variety of purposes and situations including sending email for marketing campaigns, planning staff meetings, and assigning action items from those meetings.

Objective:

  • Connect one or more email accounts
  • Preview, read, reply to and forward messages
  • Process, create, format and check messages
  • Use advanced message options
  • Organize messages
  • Use signatures and stationary
  • Automate replies and organization
  • Clean up and archive messages
  • Create, organize and manage calendars, appointments, meetings and events
  • Create and manage notes and tasks
  • Create and manage contacts and contact groups
  • Customize the Outlook environment settings
  • Print and save Information
  • Perform search operations in Outlook
Introduction : Getting Started

Welcome to the Outlook 2016 Essentials workshop. This course covers the core communication, collaboration and email skills that will enable your productivity in the Outlook environment, email, scheduling, and contacts.

Module 1 : Communicate with Email

Get ready to maximize your time when working with email. This module looks at how you can connect your email address to Outlook and start reading and processing messages. You’ll also learn how to forward and reply to messages, as well as how to create and send new message.

Module 2 : Manage Messages

This module will help you become even more productive through your email communications. You’ll learn about advanced options for messages you send or receive, as well as additional techniques for organizing messages. We’ll take a look at signatures and stationary to standardize your message content and style. We’ll also look at automating replies and organization and how to clean up messages and configure archive settings.

Module 3 : Manage Schedules

Outlook’s calendar helps you manage your meetings and appointments. This module explains how to create and manage the calendar and calendar items. You can work with multiple calendars and share your calendars with others. We’ll also look at how to create and manage tasks and notes in Outlook.

Module 4 : Manage Contacts and Groups

Outlook has some great tools for working with contacts and contact groups. This module will show you how to create, import and edit contacts or forward your information about a contact to another Outlook user. We’ll look at address books and how to create and manage contact groups. We’ll also look at how to send an email or a meeting invitation to a contact group. Finally, we’ll look at using the scheduling assistant for meetings and cancelling a meeting invitation.

Module 5 : Manage the Outlook Environment

In this module, we’ll look at some ways to improve your productivity by customizing the Outlook environment and performing searches. You’ll learn how to work with multiple accounts and print and save different types of information.

Conclusion : Wrapping Up

Although this workshop is coming to a close, we hope that your journey to improve your Outlook 2016 skills is just beginning. Please take a moment to review and update your action plan. This will be a key tool to guide your progress in the days, weeks, months, and years to come. We wish you the best of luck on the rest of your travels.