Office Outlook 2007 helps users better manage their time and information,
connect across boundaries, and help remain safe and in control. Here
are the top 10 ways that Office Outlook 2007 helps users increase
productivity and improve collaboration.
1. |
Instantly search all your
information.
Having problems finding the information you need? Use Office
Outlook 2007 to search for keywords, dates, or other flexible
criteria to locate items in your e-mail, calendar, contacts,
or tasks to save valuable time. Instant Search in Office Outlook
2007 is fully integrated within the interface so you never have
to leave Outlook to find the information you need. |
2. |
Easily manage your daily priorities and information.
Check your priorities for the day by looking at the To-Do Bar
where your flagged mails and tasks are clearly laid out.
The To-Do Bar also connects tasks you may have stored in
other Microsoft Office programs like Project, OneNote, and
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology. Finally,
the integration of the To-Do Bar items on the calendar helps
you easily schedule and block off time to follow up on items. |
3. |
Get better results faster with a redesigned user
interface.
Office Outlook 2007 has redesigned the look and feel of the messaging
interface to make composing, formatting, and acting upon information
an easier and more intuitive experience. You now have all of
the rich features and capabilities of Outlook in an accessible
and streamlined location, making it simple to navigate your options. |
4. |
Connect with people easily and effectively.
New Office Outlook 2007 calendaring functionalities provide easy
ways to share your calendar with anyone within or outside
of your organization, giving your important contacts immediate
access to your information. You can create and publish Internet
calendars to Microsoft Office Online, add and share Internet
calendar subscriptions, e-mail calendar snapshots, or even
send a customized electronic business card to one of your
clients, making it easy to communicate with anyone. |
5. |
Increased collaboration and functionality with Microsoft
Exchange Server 2007.
Office Outlook 2007, used in conjunction with Exchange Server
2007, offers a rich and complete Outlook experience. Users benefit
from a new scheduling assistant that automates time-consuming
calendaring tasks, the ability to schedule and customize out-of-office
communications, and managed folders that facilitate compliance
needs. Office Outlook 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 also combine
to deliver a new level of secure collaboration, offering multiple
messaging approaches with enhanced security that are easy to
use and reassure users they can be confident in the security
of their messages. |
6. |
Manage your shared information and content in one
interface.
Office Outlook 2007 provides you a rich interaction with information
stored in Windows SharePoint Services technology at any time.
You can connect Windows SharePoint Services documents, calendars,
contacts, tasks, and other information to Office Outlook 2007,
giving you a central place to manage your information. Additionally,
you have full editing capabilities, so that any changes you make
to this information stored in Office Outlook 2007 will be reflected
on the server version. |
7. |
Enjoy new measures that help keep you safe from
junk e-mail and malicious sites.
Office Outlook 2007 has taken new measures to help keep you safe
from junk mail and "phishing" Web sites. To help protect
you from divulging personal information to a threatening Web
site, Office Outlook 2007 has an improved junk e-mail filter
and has added new features that disable links and warn you about
threatening content within an e-mail message. |
8. |
Send text messages from Office Outlook with one
easy click.
Outlook Mobile Service is a feature of Outlook that enables you
to send and receive text and picture messages between Office
Outlook 2007 and any mobile phone. Outlook Mobile Service also
enables you to forward Outlook e-mail, contacts, appointments,
and tasks to yourself or other people as text messages. You can
even set Office Outlook 2007 to automatically send e-mail, reminders,
and your daily calendar as text messages right to your mobile
phone. |
9. |
Organize your information in new, rich ways.
Using Color Categories in Office Outlook 2007, you can easily
personalize and add categories to any type of information —
e-mail, calendar items, contacts, or tasks. Color Categories
give you a simple, visual way to distinguish items from one
another, so it’s easy to organize your data and search for
information. |
10. |
Manage all your communication in one interface.
With Office Outlook 2007, you can now read and manage your Really
Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds and blogs right from within
Office Outlook 2007, the most natural place to manage this
information. Using the integrated support for RSS feeds in
Office Outlook 2007, you no longer have to leave Outlook
to read the latest world news, catch up on your favorite
sports team, or remain up to date on interesting blogs. It's
easy to get started adding these subscriptions using the
built-in home page in Office Outlook 2007 provided by Office
Online |