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Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps

by Malestrom

Contacts ................................................ 75 4 Create, edit, and copy contacts; create a distribution list; find, arrange, flag, and phone contacts; use print a map or contact information; mail-merge e-mail Chapter 5 Scheduling and the Calendar .............................. 103 5 Set up, navigate, use, customize, share, and print the calendar; create appointments, events, and meetings

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Print Contact Information ..............................................................................93 Phone a Contact ...............................................................................................96 See a Map for a Contact’s Address ................................................................97 Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Contacts ....................................................99 Create a Mail-Merged E-mail ........................................................................99 vi Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps 5 Chapter 5 Scheduling and the Calendar .......................... 103 Use the Calendar ..................................................................................................103 Explore the Calendar .....................................................................................105

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..........................................................................................180 Set Security and Privacy Options ................................................................180 Secure E-mail ..................................................................................................181 Protecting Against Viruses ...........................................................................184 Manage Add-ins .............................................................................................184 Chapter 9 Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge ........... 187 Use Forms .............................................................................................................187 Explore Outlook Forms in the Developer Tab ...........................................188 Modify a Standard Form ..............................................................................189 Create a Custom Form ..................................................................................190 Use the Control

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and Using a Template ...................................................................198 Publish a Form ...............................................................................................198 Use a Custom Form .......................................................................................199 Selecting Contacts ..........................................................................................200 Perform a Mail Merge .........................................................................................200 Prepare Contacts ............................................................................................201 Prepare a Mail Merge Document in Word .................................................202 Perform a Mail Merge ...................................................................................204 Print Labels .....................................................................................................206 Print Envelopes ..............................................................................................208 10 Chapter 10 Using Outlook in Other Ways........................... 211 Use Instant Messaging

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Categories • Find a Contact • Print Contact Information • Phone a Contact • See a Map for a Contact’s Address Using Keyboard Shortcuts with Contacts Create a Mail-Merged E-mail 8 Create Contacts 75 10 Managing Contacts 9 The kind of address books that fit in your pocket have spaces so tiny that

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1. Open any Contacts view, and select the contacts you want to receive the e-mail. 2. From the Home tab, click Mail Merge in the Actions group. 3. The Mail Merge Contacts dialog box appears, as seen in Figure 4-11. 99 99 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Managing PC QuickSteps Getting

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check box to save the set permanently. • Click Browse to find a file elsewhere on your computer and replace it Figure 4-11: Use the Mail Merge tool in Outlook to efficiently create personalized messages with the information in this file. 8. In the Merge Options section: 6 • Click the Document Type

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to insert a message subject. 9. Click OK to continue. 8 If you have chosen either Mailing Labels or Envelopes, a Mail Merge Helper dialog box appears. 10. Continue through the Mail Merge Helper to complete your document. A new Word 10 9 document appears, with the Mailings tab displayed. 100 100 Microsoft Office

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Outlook 2010 PC QuickSteps Getting to QuickSteps Know Your PCManaging Contacts 1 11. Click Start Mail Merge. From the context menu, choose between the following types of 2 documents: 3 • Letters • E-mail Messages • Envelopes • Labels • Directory • Normal Word Document to

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begin the mail merge. The Mail Merge task pane appears at the right side of your Word window. 44 12. Click Start Mail Merge, and from the menu, click Step By Step Mail Merge Wizard 13. In the Select Recipients section, 5 Use An Existing List is

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Layouts Creating and Using a Template • Publish a Form • Use a Custom Form Chapter 9 Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge 5 Selecting Contacts Prepare Contacts • Prepare a Mail Merge Document in Word • Perform a Mail Merge • Print Labels • Print Envelopes 7 You’ve seen that Outlook is a lot more than a mail program. In

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how to print both labels and envelopes. 6 • 4 • 3 Explore Outlook Forms in Developer Tab 2 • Use Forms 187 10 Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge 99 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps 8 Much of Outlook is built around forms: message forms, appointment forms, contact forms, and many others. Forms provide

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and move fields, as well as add pages with new fields on them. 189 189 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge PC QuickSteps Getting to Know Your PC 1 2 4. In the Developer tab Form group, click the Page down arrow, and choose between changing

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the form, click Save, and close the form. 190 190 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 PC QuickSteps Getting to QuickSteps Know Your PCUsing Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge 1 USE THE DEVELOPER TAB Adding code and programming a form and working with add-ins are beyond the scope of this book. 2 NOTE

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Figure 9-4: The Developer tab provides a number of form design tools. 191 191 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge PC QuickSteps Getting to Know Your PC 1 2 • Run This Form allows you to test your form’s appearance and action. • Page allows

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fields to automatically align with the grid intersections. 192 192 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 PC QuickSteps Getting to QuickSteps Know Your PCUsing Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge 1 place them without disturbing the layout within the group. 2 • Group and Ungroup allow you to combine two or more fields and then move

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field has white selection handles, while the second field has black selection handles. 193 193 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge PC QuickSteps Getting to Know Your PC 1 7. In the Developer tab Arrange group, click the Align drop-down arrow, and click Left. In

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allows it to be tailored for the person who will be receiving it. 197 197 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge PC QuickSteps Getting to Know Your PC 1 2 UICKSTEPS Publish a Form CREATING AND USING A TEMPLATE A template is a blank message form

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allows it to be used over and over. 198 198 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 PC QuickSteps Getting to QuickSteps Know Your PCUsing Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge 1 UICKSTEPS 2 CREATING AND USING A TEMPLATE (Continued) USE A TEMPLATE 1. In the Home tab New group, click the New Items 3

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Outlook views pane. The contacts will be displayed in the Folder pane. 2. Right-drag contacts from your main Contacts folder 7 to your new mail merge folder, and click Copy. –Or– Select several contacts, either by holding down CTRL while clicking the contacts you want or by holding down SHIFT

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while clicking the first and 8 last members of a contiguous range of contacts. Perform a Mail Merge Performing a mail merge allows you to merge a form letter with your Outlook contacts, thereby sending each contact a unique letter addressed just to him or her

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ready to move right into the actual merge. In this approach, you link your contacts (either in the Contacts previously prepared Word document containing the mail merge text. 1. In the Navigation pane, click Contacts in Outlook views so that the contacts are displayed in the the Outlook views pane. 2.

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contacts to it. Prepare Contacts 2 If your contacts are in more than one folder, you either 2. In the Home tab Actions group, click Mail Merge. The Mail Merge Contacts dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 9-14. 7 3. Either click All Contacts In Current View, which can be filtered (see

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use. This will be the file for saving the selected contacts. Continued . . . Figure 9-14: Outlook will help you set up your contacts for a mail merge and then will open Word to access the document and do the merge. 201 201 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and

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Save on the Quick Access toolbar. 7 Figure 9-16: Word provides a means of filtering, sorting, and selecting contacts in the Mail Merge Recipients dialog box. When you perform a mail merge, you can print letters, mailing labels, or envelopes, or you can send e-mail messages to Outlook contacts. Once you have

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data file for the names and addresses. 2. In Word, open a new, blank document. Then, in the Mailings tab Start Mail Merge 7 6 5 4 group, click the Start Mail Merge down arrow, and click Labels. The Label Options dialog box appears. 3. Select the label vendor and product number you want

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outlines will appear as divisions in the rulers and, if paragraph marks are displayed, on the Word document page. 4. In the Mailings tab Start Mail Merge group, click Select Recipients and click Select From 99 Outlook Contacts. Double-click the Contacts folder you want to use, make any needed selections or

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changes in the Mail Merge Recipients dialog box (shown earlier in Figure 9-16), and click OK. Your Word page will be filled with label fields, mostly <<Next Record>>.

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the Mailings tab Write & Insert Fields group, click 206 206 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 PC QuickSteps Getting to QuickSteps Know Your PCUsing Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge 1 2 Address Block. Make any needed changes to the address block, check for any unmatched fields, and click OK. 6. In the Mailings tab

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a name, select a folder, and click Save. Print Envelopes 4 You may want to print names and addresses directly onto envelopes. As with the mail merge and printing labels, printing envelopes first requires that you create a contacts data file. This is described earlier in “Prepare Contacts” and in the “Selecting

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box will appear. 2. Make any needed changes, and click OK. An envelope-shaped document will be displayed. 6 3. In the Mailings tab Start Mail Merge group, click Select Recipients and click Select From Outlook Contacts. Double-click the Contacts folder you want to use, make any needed selections or changes

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in the Mail Merge Recipients dialog box (shown earlier in Figure 9-16), and click OK. 7 4. With the insertion point in the addressee area in the

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Quick Access toolbar, type a name, select a folder, and click Save. 99 209 209 10 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Using Forms, Labels, and Mail Merge PC QuickSteps Getting to Know Your PC 1 How to… • Respond to an Instant Message and Chat • Locate and Subscribe to RSS Feeds • Read

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adding files to, 82 adding from same company, 80 adding items to, 82 adding pictures to, 81 adding to e-mail, 84–85 adding to mail merge folder, 200–201 attaching to Journal entries, 158–159 categorizing, 86 changing views of, 87 calendars. See also Internet calendars displaying side-by-side, 117

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85 including as electronic business cards, 85 keyboard shortcuts for, 99 linking tasks to, 149 personalizing messages for, 99–102 phoning, 96–97 preparing for Mail Merge feature, 201–202 selecting, 85 speed dialing, 97 using alphabetic index with, 92 using Find tool with, 93 using Journal Entry feature with, 97 using

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of, 150 Quick Click, 151 Folder list described, 7 location of, 8, 11 Folder pane described, 7 location of, 8 folders copying, 173 creating for Mail Merge feature, 201 creating for RSS articles, 223 creating normal type of, 79, 172 creating search type of, 172–173 deleting, 174 moving, 173–174 moving

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messages, 62 moving, 177 sorting, 177–178 ungrouping items in, 177 viewing, 176 filter lists, using for junk mail, 39–40 Filter option, using with mail merge, 202 238 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Index modifying, 189–190 opening in Design mode, 189 positioning fields for, 193–194 publishing, 198–199 selecting

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folder for, 201 preparing contacts for, 201 preparing documents in Word, 202–204 using filtering capability with, 202 mail merge folder, adding contacts to, 200–201 mail merge, performing, 204–205 Mail view, operations in, 34–35 mail-merged e-mail, creating, 99–102 MAP (Messaging Application Programming Interface), 33 Map It utility, using with contacts

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, 97–99 Maximize button described, 7 location of, 8 meetings defined, 105, 121 scheduling, 129–131 menus, using, 10 merging form letters. See mail merge message format, selecting, 57–58 239 Windows XP QuickSteps Information239 Microsoft Office Outlook 2010 QuickSteps Storing Index inserting files in, 62 inserting signatures in, 65

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ID in, 213 displaying menus in, 216 finding for IM, 212–213 Word AutoCorrect feature, 229–230 AutoFormat feature, 230–231 Mail Merge pages in, 207 making tables in, 231 preparing mail merge documents in, 202–204 words adding to dictionary, 67 deleting from messages, 56 moving in messages, 56 replacing in messages, 56

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