# Presentation: 747123

## How to Get The Most Out of Outlook 2003

- Michele Schwartzman
- Division of Customer Support
- 301-594-6248
*Summer 2006*

## Agenda

- NIH Policies
- E-mail Tips
- Organizing Email
- Modifying Your Global Address Listing
- Managing the calendar
- Managing contacts
- Managing personal folders
- Using Rules

## Microsoft Outlook 2003

- Setting up your Microsoft Outlook Services
- Personal Folders
- Archiving your Email
- Options
- Setting up your Auto Archive
- Mailbox Management
- Saving Attachments to Another Location
- Setting up the Automatic Emptying Option

## NIH Policies

- Mailbox Limits
- Limits that are set for all NIH Employees using the NIH Central E-mail Services
- Excludes Helix, Codon, Internet Mail

## Mailbox Limits

- > 100 megabytes
- Warning message will be sent stating the user has exceeded their limit and needs to reduce their mailbox size.
- Grace Period
- If the mailbox size is not reduced, eventually the user will be unable to send, but will still be able to receive e-mail.

## Remote Access to Email Resources

- NIH Portal
- http://my.nih.gov
- Outlook Web Access
- https://owa.nih.gov

## NIH Web Resource

**http://www.mail.nih.gov**
**User Section**
- Access to OWA site to check mail over the web
- Link to change your NIH domain/ e-mail password
**Popular Links Section**
- Modifying your Mailbox and Domain Account
- AntiSpam

## Has Your Contact Information Changed? Update NED

- To correct or update NED information:
- Go to _[http://](http://ned.nih.gov/)__[ned.nih.gov](http://ned.nih.gov/)_
- Select *Update Your NED Record*
- Login to the NIH Portal
- Submit Update

## Mailbox Management

- Viewing and Sorting mailbox content
- Saving the email attachments to a file location on your hard drive or networked drive
- Deleting items in your “Sent Items”
- Deleting items from your “Deleted Items” folder will remove items from your mailbox permanently; however, there is a recovery method if within 48 hours.

## Outlook Views

- Outlook has several ways to customize the way that you access **folders **and view **mail**
- The popular view at NIH is the **Folder List**
- Allows for navigation through several folders on one screen

## Current View

- By clicking on **View**  **Arrange By**, a list of possible views is available.
- These views facilitate the organization of mail messages in order to navigate through them more effectively.

## Most commonly used views

**Messages**
- The default that is used to see all messages
**Unread messages**
- Shows only unread mail
**Messages with Auto Preview**
- Shows each message as well as the first few lines of the body of an **unread **message

## Inserting Flags for Follow Up

- In the Flag section of the message, left click to set the default red flag, or right-click to select a different color and follow up information.

## Organize Tool

## Find Options

- On the Standard toolbar, click ***Find***
- In the *Look for* box, type the text you want to search
- Click the ***Search In*** button to specify the folders you want to search (only current)
- Click the ***Find Now*** button.

## Find Results

## Find Results

- Note:
-    When the search is complete and no longer needed, press ***Clear*** so that all email will be visible again.

## Saving Attachments to Another Location

- Select the email that contains the attachments
- Choose FileSave Attachments
- Delete the attachment from the email by selecting it and press the *Delete* key.

## Automatic Delete Items

- Go to **Tools ** **Options**
- Choose the **Other **tab;
- Place a checkmark in: ***Empty the Deleted Items folder***
- To be notified before emptying the Deleted Items folder, press the **Advanced Options **button
- Place a checkmark in ***Warn before permanently deleting items***

## Mailbox Cleanup

- From the menu bar, choose Tools  Mailbox Cleanup.
- View the total size of your mailbox and of individual folders
- Find items that are older than a certain date to archive them
- View the size of your Deleted Items folder and empty it.

## Manage Information

- At NIH we use Personal Folders to manage our active information
- Recommendation: Personal folders are located on the user’s network drive
*Pro*: Reduces inbox size
*Con*: Can become corrupt if too large

## Creating Personal Folders

- Click on File, Outlook Data Management
- Click Add, then OK, then browse to a location on your network drive
- Type a name of your choice and click Create
- Then type a display name to match then OK
- You will now see a folder in your folder list that you can move and store messages

## Create Personal Folders

## Create Personal Folders

## Archiving Your Outlook E-Mail Messages

- Auto Archiving:
- This setting allows the user to schedule when an archiving will take place;
- Manual Archiving:
- The user can manually task the application to archive their email.

## Archive vs. Personal Folders

|  | Archive | Personal Folders |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Creates a *.pst |  |  |
| Stored on a network drive |  |  |
| Setup Automatic Moves |  |  |

## Setting Up AutoArchive

- Go to **Tools**  **Options**
- Select the **Other **tab
- Click on the ***AutoArchive*** button.

## Choosing Settings for AutoArchive

- How many days between archiving?
- Do you want to be prompted before AutoArchive?
- Do you want to delete email which is older than the number of days you are archiving?

## Troubleshooting the Archive Option

- You will receive this error if you have changed the location of your archive file or an archive file is not present on your system.

## Rules 

- Set of conditions and actions for processing and organizing your e‐mail messages.
*Conditions* identify messages for processing, and *actions* determine what kind of processing is performed.

## Using Rules

- Assign categories to messages
- Setup Notification when important messages arrive
- Move messages to a folder from a specific person
- Color code messages

## Using Rules

- You probably receive large volumes of mail from several different groups (work-related, personal, and junk mail), so you need some way to manage your messages. In Outlook 2002, you can use rules to sort and process your messages before you even look at them.

## Most Commonly Used Rules 

- Set up a **notification**, such as a message or a sound, when an important message arrives
**Move** messages to a particular folder based on who sent them
**Redirect** an e‐mail message to a person or distribution list
- Automatically **reply** to a certain type of message with a specific message you create
**Flag** messages from a particular person.

## Rules Wizard

- The Rules Wizard leads you through three basic steps to create a rule to manage your messages:
- Selecting a condition
- Applying an action to the items returned by the condition
- Entering exceptions to the condition.

## Creating a Rule 

- On the ***Tools ***menu, click ***Rules and Alerts***.
- In the *Apply changes to this folder *list, click the Inbox that you want.
- Click ***New Rule***. *You will see a list of rules and a description of each rule*
- To use a template, click ***Start creating a rule from a template***.
- Choose the conditions and actions that you would like to have occur once those conditions are met.

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## Out of Office Assistant

- Be sure that you are at the Inbox level
**Tools**  **Out of Office Assistant**

## Inserting NIH E-mail Addresses

- In the ***To:*** field type the employee’s name (first last)
- Press ***CTRL*****+k** on the keyboard to check name.
- If multiple employees have the same name, a popup box will appear to select the correct one, otherwise the name will automatically be found and linked.

## Creating Contacts

- On the **File **menu, select **New ** **Contact**.

## Adding a Contact from Email

**Right-click **on a user in the **From: **field
- Choose ***Add to Contacts***

## Modifying Contact Options

**Tools**  **Options**
- On the *Preferences* tab, select the **Contacts Options** button

## Managing Calendar

- Viewing Options
- Color Coding Appointments
- Modifying Calendar Options
- Using Free/Busy Time Feature
- Creating a Recurring Meeting Request

## Viewing the Calendar

- Monthly
- Weekly
- Work Week
- Daily

## Color Coding Appointments

## Managing Calendar Options

- Creating Appointments
- Scheduling Meetings
- Recurring
- Free/Busy Time

## Managing Calendar Options

- From the **Tools **menu, select **Options**
- Make sure that the *Preferences *tab is selected.
- Choose **Calendar Options**

**Notes:**
Transition into Free/Busy Options...

## Managing Calendar OptionsFree/Busy Time

- Within **calendar options**, choose the **Free/Busy **buttons.

## Managing Calendar OptionsViewing Free/Busy Time

## In Closing...

- http://antispam.nih.gov
- http://www.mail.nih.gov

**Notes:**
Rahel
Task 14
Access your NIH email using Outlook Web Access.

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