Outlook's New Interface and Features

If you spend much of your work day using Microsoft Outlook, you may be caught off guard after upgrading to Microsoft Outlook 2007. It looks like a complete stranger!

Like the other products in the Microsoft Office suite, Outlook has been through a major makeover. Whether you like the changes depends quite a bit on whether you've been through Microsoft Outlook 2007 training or not. Simply winging it and figuring it out on your own will frustrate and confuse most users. In fact, Microsoft Office 2007 training covering each of the Office programs you use is a good idea.

With Microsoft Outlook 2007 training, you can find out about the changes and new features and avoid the frustration. The interface is the biggest change featuring a set of tabs that contain the related toolbars for similar tasks. While this "ribbon" is designed to be intuitive, it often confuses existing users. Knowledge is power and the more you know about the changes, the better you will be able to use them to your advantage.

Outlook 2007 includes numerous new features, too. Now you can send instant messages, view your RSS feeds and blogs, and even color-code your tasks, appointments, and messages all from within one interface.