This quick guide offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented 10-minute lessons, users learn Outlook essentials for time and information management: managing email, scheduling your calendar, organizing daily tasks, and connecting to Microsoft on the Web support. 10 minutes is all you need to learn how to: read, save, and answer mail messages; set up your personal address book; set message and delivery options; navigate the calendar and set up appointments; create a contacts list; integrate items with ease; share data with Office applications; archive important items; and create an Internet e-mail address.

By necessity, a ten-minute guide is going to be two things: topical and quick. This book steers you quickly through Outlook's many basic components, using easy-to-understand language, screen shots, and quick tips to make its points. You'll find several chapters devoted to using Outlook's Inbox and Outbox, managing e-mail messages (including Internet mail), and setting up a Personal Address Book. The author goes on to introduce the program's Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Journal, and Notes sections; show you how to use the Tools/Options dialog to customize your Outlook setup; explain how to back up your data; and finally, show how to use OLE to integrate Outlook with Microsoft Office applications. A primer on using Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 rounds out this useful book.