Microsoft Outlook 2007 - improvers

Get the most out of Microsoft Outlook 2007 – it has more power to help you than you realise

Microsoft Outlook dominates modern business life, but most people use only a fraction of its power – maybe you’re one of them. Well, even if you regard computers as a necessary evil, this course will open your eyes to the many ways in which Outlook can actually make your working life a whole lot easier.

Is it for me?

If you have a little knowledge of Outlook 2007, some experience of personal computers, and want to improve and extend your knowledge into the more advanced aspects of Outlook, this is the course for you.

What’s it all about?

Our workshops are effective because they are based on your real life problems – we expect you to bring all your Outlook baggage with you! Your learning from the day will stick with you because we use a range of activities, have lots of practice time, and encourage a large amount of questions.

Learning works best when learners can make their own discoveries, so you will have time to play with Outlook and perhaps have your own Eureka moment!

Our supportive and experienced trainers believe that the most important thing is to meet our learners’ personal objectives. However, to give you an idea of the type of skills you will learn, by the end of the course you should be able to:

• organise and locate your email messages

• search for Outlook items that match your search criteria

• group and organise Outlook items by colour category

• manage your mail items using rules that activate when a certain type of message is sent or received

• schedule appointments and events in your calendar

• schedule meetings using Microsoft Outlook

• create and work with task requests

• send automatic responses to incoming mail when you are out of the office

Tell me more!

Outlook 2007 has so much to offer, that we can’t fit all of it into the workshop as there are 90 different possible topics. However, you will receive an indispensable folder of materials to keep on your desk which will include all the following topics:

Outlook 2007 Orientation

• Understanding Outlook 2007

• Starting Outlook 2007

• Common Outlook 2007 Screen Elements

• Going To Outlook 2007 Features

• Navigating To Outlook 2007 Features

• The Navigation Pane

• The To-Do Bar

• The Mail Screen

• The Calendar Screen

• The Contacts Screen

• The Tasks Screen

• The Notes Screen

• Microsoft Outlook 2007

• Customising Toolbars

• The Outlook Today Screen

• Exiting Outlook 2007

Organising messages

• Creating A Message Folder

• Working with Favourite Folders

• Viewing Favourite Folders

• Deleting Message Folders

• Recovering Deleted Folders

• Moving Messages

• Copying Messages

• Deleting and Recovering Messages

• Emptying Deleted Items

Searching

• Using Instant Search

• Expanding the Search

• Search Query Syntax – Dates and Size

• Recent Searches and Searching the Desktop

• Search Options

• Searching Other Outlook Items

• Using A Search Folder

• Adding a Predefined Search Folder

• Customising Predefined Search Folders

• Creating a Custom Search Folder

Colour categories

• Naming Colour Categories

• Assigning a Colour Category

• Setting the Quick Click Category

• Searching by Category

Working with rules

• Creating a New Rule – Selecting the Template

• Creating a New Rule – Selecting the Condition

• Creating a New Rule – Selecting the Action

• Creating a New Rule – Selecting Exceptions

• Naming and Reviewing the Rule

• Managing Existing Rules

• Deleting a Rule

Scheduling meetings

• Creating a New Meeting

• Scheduling A Meeting

• Responding To Meeting Requests

• Meeting Response Options

• Tracking Meeting Responses

• Changing a Meeting

• Adding or Removing Attendees

• Prohibiting Responses

• Cancelling A Meeting

• Planning a Meeting with Others

• Scheduling Attendees

• Sending Your Own Invitation to a Meeting

• Group Schedules

Task requests

• How Task Requests Work

• Creating A Task Request

• Responding To A Task Request

• Completing An Assigned Task

• Updating Your Task Request

• Creating a Task from an E-Mail Message

• Changing the Order of Tasks

Questions, questions

Before you start the course we will send you a questionnaire to find out what you know already and what your expectations are for the course.

Venues

You can either come along to our state of the art computer lab, or if you would prefer we can come to your location.

A choice of delivery methods

We can offer a variety of delivery methods:

• One day workshops – either at our venue or bespoke at your venue

• 2 hour ‘bionic bursts’ (bespoke, focused, cost effective) at your venue

• At your desk training – we can work individually with up to 5 people at their desks during one day at your venue (highly bespoke & cost effective)

Your facilitator

Emma Konopka, your principal facilitator, has over 10 years teaching and training experience and experience of supporting clients in their use of a variety of professional research databases. With an MA in Information Studies, Emma combines her experience and knowledge with an engaging facilitator style.

Emma passionately believes in the power of collaboration and discovery in learning. Both of these help learners to learn more efficiently and retain more of the learning in the long term. Learners will be encouraged to play, experiment and work in groups. This accelerated learning style includes such techniques as:

• Problem-solving activities (wherever possible based on your real life problems)

• Collaborative group work

• Activities that engage the body as well as the mind (movement & physical activity help learning)

• Active encouragement of questions

• Lots of practice

Taster session

If you would like to get a taste of our one day workshops we can offer a free 1 hour trial at your offices. You will get to discuss your needs with Emma, you can choose any part of the workshop to see in action and preview the learning materials.

Name dropping

When you sign up for Microsoft Outlook 2007 for improvers, you will be in good company:

“I just wanted to thank you for providing such a stimulating and thought-provoking course. I will certainly be implementing the tips and suggestions just as soon as I can. I returned to the office today with renewed vigour and cannot wait for the positive changes to start happening. You’re one smart cookie – keep doing what you’re doing, only good things can happen by taking the Today’s Pa training and I, for one, will spread the word!”

Hayley North - Microsoft

Below are just some of the other companies who have sent their staff to our workshops recently:

• 2012

• AXA Insurance

• Barclays

• The British Library

• Brunel University

• Carphone Warehouse

• DLA Piper

• Girlguiding UK

• The Home Office

• Investa Real Estate

• Npower

• Pepsico

• Rugby Football Union

• Shell

• Surrey Police

• UBS

• Virgin

Fee

This course is available at our computer suite for £199. For a bespoke course at your venue please call 020 7622 2400 for more details.

Our philosophy

Courses and workshops from Indiquo are designed to engage and entertain, as well as inform – that’s how we can promise to make what can seem to be the dullest of subjects interesting.

Our trainers have real-world experience at all levels of the organisation, so they speak your language and understand your issues and problems. And because they have ‘been there and done that’, they know how to get straight to the heart of every subject.