Alarms can be set for any event in either minute, hours or days, and you can set a sound to notify you of events. To-Do items in Outlook are captured in the Tasks area. Like other items in Outlook, you can assign a category to the item and mark it as private if appropriate. Under the Status tab, you can enter billing information and track the number of hours spent on a task. Attorneys can use this function to recover hours spent on projects.
Outlook provides excellent tools for importing data from other programs.
This is very valuable for attorneys who have accumulated a lot of data in their PIM but want to switch to Microsoft Office 97. If you are using Outlook in a group environment with Exchange Server, you can use it in offline or connected mode. The product has too many flavors that are not always cross-compatible. Outlook is a powerful PIM with the major plus of providing an e-mail client. This provides one solution for most of your information flow.