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Overview
This course serves as a quick reference to new and improved features since Outlook 98 and guides students through the transition process.
Prerequisites
Students enrolling in this course should have completed the following courses: Microsoft Office 97 to Office XP: New Features, Outlook 98 or 2000:Level 1, and Outlook 98 or 2000: Level 2. In addition, this course assumes that the student has a working knowledge of working offline with Outlook.
Target Student
The target student has met the prerequisites listed above. He or she will also be familiar with an Internet browser, such as Internet Explorer, as well as have experience with working on an Exchange server.
Performance-Based Objectives
Lesson objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also
provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course,
students will be able to:
- Use the Outlook Shortcut Bar and customize the Outlook Today page. Use
new and improved Outlook mail features like the default editor Microsoft
Word, smart tags, hyperlinks, hotmail, mail merge, the enhanced find
feature, the rules wizard, and cleaning up your mailbox.
- Propose a new meeting time directly from a meeting request, control the
ability to offer a counter proposal time, and book office resources directly
from the Exchange server. Students will customize their calendar using
colors, create a group schedule, and review the enhanced Reminder window.
Find contacts, add a display as field to a contact, resize Address Book
column headings, create a distribution list using contacts, flag contacts
for follow-up, and track contact activity.
- Create an email message and add a new contact directly from the Web
browser. View Web pages from Outlook, add a Web page shortcut to the Outlook
Bar, specify a Web page to be displayed as a home page, save their calendar
as a Web page, and explore the process for sharing their free and busy
calendar time over the Internet.
- Create an offline folder, download the Address Book, synchronize
offline folders, and create a send/receive group.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Outlook Interface and New Mail Features
- New Environment Features
- New Mail Features
Lesson 2: New Meeting, Calendar, and Contact features
- New Meeting Features
- New Calendar Features
- New Contact Features
Lesson 3: New Internet Integration Features
- New Internet Integration Features
Lesson 4: New Features for Working Offline
- Setting up to work offline
Hardware Requirements
To run this course, you will need:
- A Pentium 133 MHz or higher processor with a minimum of 64 MB of RAM for the operating system and an additional 8 MB of RAM for each Office application running simultaneously.
- A minimum of 520 MB of free hard-disk space.
- Either a local CD-ROM drive or access to a networked CD-ROM drive for installation purposes.
- A floppy-disk drive.
- A Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse, or compatible pointing device.
- A Super VGA or higher resolution monitor.
- Microsoft Windows 2000.
- A complete installation of Microsoft Office XP.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher.
- A Microsoft Exchange 2000 server.
- A local area network connecting the server and student workstations and the appropriate network client software.
- In order to experience Outlook 2002?s collaborative features, it is necessary for you to work with a partner.
See your reference manual for hardware considerations that apply to your specific hardware setup.
In addition, you will need an installed printer driver.
Note: This course was developed using the Windows 2000 platform. However, the manufacturer?s documentation states that Office XP can also run on Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 6x.
Software Requirements
- Windows 2000 Professional. This book was written using the
Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Using this book with other operating
systems may affect how the activities work.
- Microsoft Office XP Professional—see the Class Setup
Requirements for instructions.
- Microsoft
Exchange, Internet SMTP/POP3, IMAP4, or other MAPI-compliant messaging software
required for email features.
- An installed
printer driver. (Printers are not required; however, each PC must have an
installed printer driver to use Print Preview.)
