Description

Summary: This course will provide experienced business professionals with a better hands-on understanding of how to manage their time more effectively, define tasks more accurately, and process incoming information more efficiently. Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 as a "dashboard" application, students will be shown how to better manage their schedules, projects, and assignments, and how to create and respond to e-mail messages with greater confidence.

Audience: Home and Office Users
Available Offline: Yes
Subscription: 12 months

Course Type: Self-paced Course
Estimated Time of Completion: 3 Hours
Language: English

Description:
This course is designed for people who rely on Outlook for communication, and who already use it for basic information workflow tasks such as e-mail, appointments, and managing task lists. They are accomplished users of the application, but they are looking for techniques to better manage Inbox overload and more effectively define and execute tasks to maximize their daily productivity.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• Use dated and undated tasks, combined with context and categorization, to make informed decisions about the next most important things that need to be done at any given time.
• Effectively customize and manage the Task Pad and Task window in Outlook to provide the right types of information for various life and business scenarios.
• Make e-mail messages more useful and get faster, more accurate responses by creating meaningful subject lines.
• Use drag-and-drop techniques to instantly convert e-mail messages into calendar events or tasks. Students also will be able to attach an e-mail message, including any file attachments, or convert the body of an e-mail message to a text note in the new appointment or task.
• Use custom views to create the "Outlook Dashboard" to bring all of the information needed to properly manage time and tasks into one central location.

Technical Requirements

To view this course, you need:

• A Pentium II, 256 MB RAM with a processor speed greater than or equal to 400 MHZ
• Microsoft® Windows® 98SE or higher
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
• Macromedia Flash 6.0 or higher (1MB disk space needed to install)
• Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 or higher
• A Super VGA monitor with minimum screen resolution 1024x768, with 16-bit color.
• A sound card, speakers, or headphones are recommended.
• Internet bandwidth of 56K or faster. Broadband is recommended.

Accessibility Requirements

The following software must be running on your computer in order to access this course with Screen Reader Software:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
• Window-Eyes from GW Micro
• JAWS from Freedom Scientific
• MSAA enabled