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Microsoft Outlook 2007: Basic

Description
This course covers the basic functions and features of Outlook 2007. Students will create e-mail accounts and send e-mail messages using several techniques. They will also learn how to manage e-mail messages, contacts, tasks, and meeting requests. Finally, students will customize Outlook for maximum efficiency.

Designated as Approved Courseware for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist program, this course will help students prepare for the Outlook 2007 exam (70-604). For comprehensive certification training, students should complete Outlook 2007: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.

Objectives
• Explore the Outlook environment; use Outlook’s features; use and customize Outlook Today; and use the different help options.
• Configure different e-mail accounts; use the Inbox to read, create, and send messages; reply to, format, and check spelling of messages; preview, read, and save attachments; and forward, delete, and move messages.
• Set delivery options for messages, flag messages, set up the read receipt option for messages, specify e-mail security settings, specify options for controlling junk e-mail, set up Search Folders, and print messages.
• Use the Contacts folder to manage e-mail addresses and create distribution lists; and create, edit, format, and send electronic business cards.
• Use the Tasks folder to add, edit, and mark tasks; assign tasks; accept or decline a task request; send an update; and track an assigned task.
• Create and organize your appointments by using the Calendar; explore Calendar views; modify, edit, and delete appointments; and add multi-day and annual events to the Calendar.
• Use the Calendar to schedule a meeting, and use the meeting workspace; read and respond to meeting requests; and review, modify, and cancel a meeting.

The following is an outline of the syllabus directly from the learning guide:

• Getting started
• The program window
• Outlook Today
• Getting help
• E-mail
• E-mail accounts
• Reading e-mail messages
• Creating and sending e-mail messages
• Working with messages
• Attachments
• E-mail management
• Message options
• E-mail security
• Junk e-mail
• Search folders
• Printing messages
• Contact management
• Managing contacts
• Distribution lists
• Electronic business cards
• Tasks
• Working with tasks
• Managing tasks
• Appointments and events
• Creating and sending appointments
• Modifying appointments
• Calendar views
• Events
• Meeting requests and responses
• Meeting requests
• Meeting request responses
• Managing meeting responses

Instructor: Valerie Dow
Contact: 343-2112, or e-mail val@thecomputertrainers.com