This course is the first in a series of three Microsoft® Office Outlook® courses. It will provide you with the skills you need to start sending and responding to email in Microsoft® Outlook® 2003, as well as maintaining your Calendar, scheduling meetings, and working with tasks and notes.

Course Objective: You will compose and send email, schedule appointments and meetings, manage contact information and tasks, and use notes.

Target Student: This course is designed for people with a basic understanding of Microsoft Windows who need to learn how to use Microsoft® Outlook® 2003 to compose and send email, schedule appointments and meetings, manage contact information and tasks, and use notes. This course is intended for persons interested in pursuing the Microsoft® Office Specialist certification for Outlook.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• identify the components of the Outlook environment and compose and respond to a simple message.
• compose messages.
• use folders to manage mail.
• schedule appointments.
• schedule meetings.
• manage contacts and contact information.
• create and edit tasks.
• create and edit notes.