This will be the definitive guide to using Outlook, Microsoft's new information manager that is a significant addition to Microsoft Office 97. This book quickly guides readers through the "how-to" aspects of the product, and shows how to best utilize the various components of Outlook to successfully collaborate in numerous situations. These include working from home, working in a small group in the office, working within a large group in various locations on an Intranet, and working in an ad hoc committee through the Internet.

The Microsoft Outlook Handbook successfully moves from the basics of using Outlook to power-user features, such as creating new views and forms. And at the end of each chapter, you'll find a discussion of how an individual user, a small workgroup, a large workgroup, or a committee might use the features covered in that chapter. For example, the chapter on using the Calendar includes ideas on how users with and without Microsoft Exchange Server (Microsoft's optional back-end messaging server) can collaborate on their schedules. You can also learn how to create your own forms and take the process further by using VBScript to automate these forms. Throughout the book, the author provides ease-of-use tips and large, helpful screen shots; for example, the last chapter consists of screen shots of various views you can call up within Outlook. The author also offers cautionary advice about the best and least efficient ways to sort data and create new fields. In all, this is a very good guide to getting to know Outlook inside and out.