First, the good news: Microsoft Outlook's integration of email, scheduling, and contact information make it a powerful tool that you can use in organizing your work and your life. And as part of the Microsoft Office suite, it integrates with the other Office applications, like Word and Excel. With Outlook as your personal information manager or PIM, your productivity can skyrocket. Now the bad news: released for the first time with Office 97 and since reissued in a number of new versions, most notably Outlook 98, Outlook frequently seems more like it's beta than production software. Whether you're most bothered by Outlook's refusal to deliver your email, its tendency to eat up your free hard disk space, or any of the other numerous glitches that occur from time to time (and sometimes all the time), you're almost sure to feel at some time or another that Outlook is just plain annoying. Someone ought to do something about it. That's just what authors Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, and T.J. Lee have done.
In Outlook Annoyances, they look at these and other annoyances and show how you can conquer them so that you can actually use Outlook to organize and manage your personal information. For instance, the book will help you: Customize the Outlook 98 toolbar so it reflects the way you work rather than the needs of Microsoft's marketing machine Walk through Outlook's often deeply buried user interface settings so that you can decide what you want to change and why Get data into Outlook from your old email client or PIM, move information from one Outlook module to another, and export data from Outlook to other applications, like Microsoft Word Create custom forms that use VBScript and access the Outlook object model to eliminate many of the annoyances of Outlook's standard forms Understand the difficulties involved in combining widely disparate data in a single container. Often, knowing where an annoyance comes from -- even if you can't do anything about it -- makes it far less annoying. Outlook Annoyances is the definitive guide for those who want to customize Microsoft Outlook.
It empowers users who want to take full advantage of Outlook to transform it into the useful tool that it was intended to be.
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Woody Leonhard's books include Windows 3.1 Programming for Mere Mortals, The Underground Guide to Word for Windows, The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows, The Mother of All PC Books, The Mother of All Windows 95 Books, and several others. He was series editor for Addison-Wesley's Underground Guides (11 books) and A-W's Hacker's Guides (4 books). Along with T.J. Lee and Lee Hudspeth he's editor-in-chief of PC Computing's Undocumented Office, a monthly hardcopy newsletter. He's a contributing editor at PC Computing (circulation 1,000,000+), and productivity editor for Office Computing (circulation 400,000), a new monthly magazine from the editors of PC Computing. He also publishes a free weekly electronic news bulletin on Microsoft Office called WOW (Woody's Office Watch), available by sending email to wow@wopr.com. Woody's software company makes WOPR (Woody's Office POWER Pack), the number-one enhancement to Microsoft Office. A self-described "grizzled computer hack, frustrated novelist and Office victim," by day he's a Tibetan human rights activist and co-founder of the Tibetan Children's Fund. Woody lives on top of a mountain in Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado. Lee Hudspeth is a co-founder of PRIME Consulting Group, Inc. (Hermosa Beach, CA), a Microsoft Solution Provider. His background is in operations research, financial analysis, and marketing analysis (formerly with Unocal Corp.). He has coauthored several books on Office, including The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA and The Underground Guide to Excel 5.0 for Windows. He is co-editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletter Woody's Underground Office, he's a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional), coauthor of the Microsoft course on application development using WordBasic, and a certified Microsoft trainer in Visual Basic and WordBasic. Along with other PRIME Consulting staff, Lee has developed innumerable lines of VB, VBA, and WordBasic code for the firm's numerous Office add-ins (PRIME for Excel and PRIME for Word), going way back to Word 2.0. Lee also writes and delivers Office usage and development custom courses to hordes of interested parties the world over. T.J. Lee, also a co-founder of PRIME Consulting Group, has a background as a certified public accountant, and has done computer and management consulting for years. He has coauthored several books on Office, including The Underground Guide to Microsoft Excel 5 and The Underground Guide to Microsoft Office, OLE and VBA. T.J. is co-editor-in-chief of the monthly newsletter Woody's Underground Office and a certified Microsoft trainer. He has written countless courseware packages and manuals, coauthored the Microsoft Education Services course on developing applications in Word, and taught and lectured for thousands of developers and end users.
Preface. 1. It's a Bit Like Whacking Your TV Set The Annoyances Troika A New and Improved Outlook 98 Just Where Do You Want to Go Today? 2. Vital Changes, Settings, and Customizations Version Vertigo Installation Odds and Ends Fixing Annoyances with Add-ins and Know-how Annoying Details and Customizations Ready to Rock. 3. Outlook Repair Tactics Solving the Name and Address Storage Puzzle Problems Sending Email Problems with Personal Folders Problems with Individual Information Services Problems with Profiles Problems with Your Email Provider (ISP or Online Service) The Ultimate Scorched Earth Solution. 4. Enigmatic Journal Creating Journal Entries Monitoring Activities over Time. 5. Outlook's Key Ingredients New Items, Less Annoyance Thick as a Post Calendar-or if This Is Tuesday It Must Be Outlook Making Contact The Task at Hand Make a Note of That Mastering Mail Messages. 6. A Cookbook for Conversion Importing Data from Outside Repositories Other Conversion Considerations Archive and Backup. 7. Beyond the Basics Finding, Viewing, and Filtering User Interface Tips Categories Reminders Set a Recurring Activity Get Email Smart Integration with Word 8. Object Model, and Custom Forms Outlook and VBScript versus Office and VBA The Script Editor Writing Outlook/VBScript Programs Controlling Office Applications Using Object Models OLE Automation. 9. Where and How to Get Help The Horse's Mouth Magazines The Office Annoyances Site WOW Microsoft Exchange Server Index
