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The complete guide to Office 2010: Outlook

Posted on 23 Feb 2010 at 14:14

At long last, Microsoft has grasped that all-day appointments are actually quite important, and decided to list them in the To-Do bar that sits alongside your email. Progress indeed.

CONTACTS & TASKS

Contacts remains almost unchanged since Office 2007. The only notable addition is Suggested Contacts. If you’ve had email correspondence with someone who isn’t already in your Contacts folder, Outlook will automatically create a contact card for them, with their name and email address inserted in the relevant fields.

It would be better if this feature could harvest telephone numbers and addresses from email signatures, for example, but it’s a small potential timesaver. Tasks, apart from benefiting from the Ribbon interface, offers nothing new of note.

Outlook 2010's key features

• Ignore Conversation
• Conversation view
• Quick steps
• People Panes
• Insert photos/SmartArt/charts in email
• Calendar preview
• Schedule view
• Suggested Contacts

Author: Barry Collins