Outlook 2007 Intermediate Study Guide

 study guide 1-4239-5489-0 © 2008
Publish date: March 31, 2007
192 pages

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Course ID: outlook-2007-int-sg

The Outlook 2007 Intermediate study guide is one of our computer training books that recently earned a 4.9/5.0 rating in overall quality from ProCert Labs. This course builds on the skills and concepts that you learned in our basic course. By choosing this intermediate level, you will learn how to customize Outlook and use the address books.

You will learn techniques for searching and filtering mail folders, applying and customizing categories, use a variety of folders including personal, public, and offline folders, organize your folders, and create rules. The Outlook 2007 Intermediate courseware is Microsoft-approved courseware for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program focusing on Outlook. You will be ready to take, and pass, the Outlook 2007 exam #70-604.

To thoroughly prepare for this exam and get complete training, we recommend that you complete all three levels of our Outlook 2007 study guides including Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

The Outlook 2007 training courseware contains five comprehensive units that take you deeper into the features and functions of the software including customization steps, expanded searching, and organization techniques. Section reviews and hands-on activities serve to reinforce the concepts covered and allow you to pick up where you left off.

Course objectives

By choosing this course, you will learn how to customize Outlook's environment including its menus, toolbars, startup folder, Quick Access toolbar, To-Do bar, and Reading pane. You will create groups, shortcuts, and address books.

You will also learn about applying themes, stationery, fonts, e-mail options, signatures, electronic business, and voting buttons to your outgoing messages as well as how to respond to messages with voting buttons and how to set up out-of-office notices.

Other topics include using Instant Search, Advanced Find, filters, and categories. You will work with folders including creating personal folders and a subfolder within it, moving, renaming, deleting, and restoring subfolders, moving messages between folders, creating public folders, using offline folders, and work in the Cached Exchange mode.

Finally, you will learn about using arrangements for sorting and grouping messages, using the Organize page and rules, and using the Rules Wizard.

Course Contents

Unit 1discusses how to customize Outlook

  • Exploring Outlook's interface
  • Using groups and shortcuts
  • Working with Address books

Unit 2 talks about how to customize messages

  • Customizing the appearance of a message
  • How to add signatures
  • Working with voting buttons
  • How to set up out-of-office messages

Unit 3 covers organizing items

  • Working with instant and advanced search
  • Using filters
  • Working with categories

Unit 4 discusses folders

  • Personal folders
  • Public folders
  • Offline folders

Unit 5goes over organizing Mail

  • Organizing your Inbox folders
  • Organizing folders
  • Working with rules