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| Outlook Annoyances | 
| Authors: Woody Leonhard, T.j. Lee, Lee Hudspeth
Publisher: O'Reilly
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1866475
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 385
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1565923847
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.369
UPC: 636920923848
EAN: 9781565923843
ASIN: 1565923847
Publication Date: June 1, 1998
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Product Description
First, the good news: Microsoft Outlook's integration of email, scheduling, and contact information make it a powerful tool that you can use in organizing your work and your life. And as part of the Microsoft Office suite, it integrates with the other Office applications, like Word and Excel. With Outlook as your personal information manager or PIM, your productivity can skyrocket.Now the bad news: released for the first time with Office 97 and since reissued in a number of new versions, most notably Outlook 98, Outlook frequently seems more like it's beta than production software. Whether you're most bothered by Outlook's refusal to deliver your email, its tendency to eat up your free hard disk space, or any of the other numerous glitches that occur from time to time (and sometimes all the time), you're almost sure to feel at some time or another that Outlook is just plain annoying. Someone ought to do something about it. That's just what authors Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, and T.J. Lee have done. In Outlook Annoyances, they look at these and other annoyances and show how you can conquer them so that you can actually use Outlook to organize and manage your personal information. For instance, the book will help you: - Customize the Outlook 98 toolbar so it reflects the way you work rather than the needs of Microsoft's marketing machine
- Walk through Outlook's often deeply buried user interface settings so that you can decide what you want to change and why
- Get data into Outlook from your old email client or PIM, move information from one Outlook module to another, and export data from Outlook to other applications, like Microsoft Word
- Create custom forms that use VBScript and access the Outlook object model to eliminate many of the annoyances of Outlook's standard forms
- Understand the difficulties involved in combining widely disparate data in a single container. Often, knowing where an annoyance comes from -- even if you can't do anything about it -- makes it far less annoying.
Outlook Annoyances is the definitive guide for those who want to customize Microsoft Outlook. It empowers users who want to take full advantage of Outlook to transform it into the useful tool that it was intended to be.
Amazon.com Review
This book assumes that Microsoft Outlook, a powerful communications and information-management tool, is imperfect because it's meant for mass consumption. The authors show the tricks they've discovered to personalize and otherwise improve the program using Visual Basic for Applications, VBScript, and Outlook's built-in customization features. There's no CD-ROM, but you can download some of this book's customizations from the O'Reilly site. Many of the recommended customizations depend upon personal preference, so you'll probably rely upon the text's step-by-step instructions as much as prewritten software. Aside from the bug workarounds and customization, you'll find good documentation of all of Outlook's features--much better than Microsoft's documentation. Among this book's handiest features is its strong coverage of e-mail conversion--how to transfer your e-mail archive into Outlook from some other program. Information on getting messages out of Outlook and into some other format is less evident, unfortunately. Overall, this is a fine book that will make any Outlook user's life easier. --David Wall
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 A Must For All Outlook User June 17, 1999
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I wish that I had bought this book last year. It is written clearly and gave me the insight to solve the nagging problems I have had with Outlook. This is a "must have" for stand alone users and especially for networks.
An absolute must for all Outlook (non!) users December 14, 1998
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Woody Leonard's step by step approach is a real eye-opener. Each aspect of Outlook is explained in (almost) minute detail. He did not, however, cover links to Exchange, but did recommend an alternative publication. I think he should have gone further on this as there will be many Outlook problems eminating from Exchange (I have at least three!), and there will be many sites that use the Outlook/Exchange combination. Other than this, this is a key book for any Sys Admin. library.
Perhaps one of the greatest computer guides known to man October 10, 1998
I have read many computer guides in my day, often ending up more confused than when I began. This book, however, takes a complex and certainly often times frustrating subject, and breaks it down into an understandable and enjoyable format. I gave this book to my grandmother, and she proudly displays it alongside her 19th Century Salt and Pepper Collection. Enough Said! Anyone who wishes to understand Outlook, and do with it what yout think you should be able to do with it, must buy this book.
 The Outlook Book for Support Professionals September 25, 1998
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Although this book does have an unfortunate title, I found this full of hints and tips that help desk, IT support professionals, and other MIS types can use to support company-wide Outlook installations. Let's face it, Outlook offers the customer so many different choices, modes of operating, services, etc. that it's only natural that some customers would find this overwhelming and would lead to frustration and annoyance. However, if deployed correctly, in a pre-configured state, Outlook provides one of the most robust and forgiving interfaces for customers. Outlook Annoyances help identify areas of client improvement, as well as showcase tips and tricks to keep customers happy with Outlook. It's more of a manual to find nuggets of Outlook treasure .. "Oh, so that's how I can do [such and such]" seems to be the overwhelming theme of this book. Outlook annoyances is also written at a technical level that surpasses most of the other Outlook user guides (and all of the Microsoft guides on Outlook), but may detailed descriptions of the annoyances and how to solve them may confuse the occasional Outlook customer. So, IT staffs can benefit from reading and leveraging information from this manual for their Outlook customers, while Outlook customers can learn about Outlook with a quick guide, like the 10 Minutes Guide to Outlook.
A great book that had me laughing to keep from crying! August 24, 1998
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have been using Outlook for e-mail for about a year. Started using its other features in April when I bought a WinCE machine, which synchronizes Outlook data with my desktop.To say that I could identify with the comments in Outlook Annoyances would be an understatement - this book had me laughing to keep from crying! The difficulties in importing Contact names, addresses and company names into Word is unbelievable! This is a good book, with a great sense of humor!
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