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Chapter 1: Planning for Better Balance between Your Work and Personal Life
Figure 1-2:
The Outlook
2007
program
window
as it
normally
appears
when
you first
launch the
application.
To-Do Bar
Navigation Pane
Information Viewer
Reading Pane
Looking at these two figures, you can immediately see why so many Outlook
users restrict their program use to e-mail alone. After all, it’s the Inbox folder
in the Mail module that normally appears each time a user launches the
application. (You can change this default view to another folder in another
module if you want, as you discover in Chapter 5.)
To use Outlook as a true productivity tool, you have to go beyond the Mail
module. Looking at the bottom of the Navigation Pane in Figure 1-1 or 1-2, you
see a bunch of buttons beneath the Mail button. These additional buttons
(only some of which are labeled) are the keys to using Outlook as a full-fledged
Personal Information Manager:
 Calendar: Displays a daily, weekly, or monthly calendar that contains a
visual schedule of all your upcoming appointments.
 Contacts: Displays an address book with cards or listings for all the
people and companies you correspond with.
 Tasks: Displays a Tasks (2003) or To-Do (2007) list that tells you all
things you still need to get done in the near future.
 Notes: Displays all notes to yourself that you add to jog your memory.