• Online Outlook Training from Microsoft
• FCCC Online Training
• MS Office Webcasts

This class covers the basics of using the email, scheduling, calendaring, tasking, and other organizational features of Outlook.  Take advantage of the training opportunities listed above to review and refine your Outlook skills.

For Outlook skills help, contact Terry Gray, (760) 744-1150 ext. 2877, tgray@palomar.edu.  If you are having email problems with the implementation of Outlook or Exchange server at Palomar College, contact the help desk at (760) 744-1150 ext. 2140 or helpdesk@palomar.edu.

Click here for the Academic Technology Training Schedule - here for the Professional Development office, in order to sign up.

The ideal delivery of this workshop would be to discuss strategies for organization, and then realize them in the best personal information management program around: Microsoft Outlook.

That would be a tall order.  Our workshop will last only 3 hours, and we must emphasize Outlook 'hands-on how-to" skills, rather than more general how to get organized skills.  These general skills are, in the long run, much more important than the specific how-to-accomplish-an-action skills.  There are many general organizational schemes, but I think it is fair to say the following is true of any scheme:

1. Self-discipline and consistency are the keys to success.

2. Sticking with any scheme is better than having a great scheme and abandoning it.

If you are interested in applying a world-class organization scheme to Outlook, we recommend the following book:

Take Back Your Life! by Sally McGhee, Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2040-7 (Amazon link).

Click here for setup instructions.

Setup includes workshop client setup, and reference for setting up your own desktop versions of Outlook after the workshop is over.

Click here for the email skills page.

Email skills include:

• Setting up and formatting email in Outlook.
• A wide variety of skills and actions for handling email and keeping it organized within a folder structure within Outlook.

Click here for Calendar skills page.

Calendar skills include:

• Setting up and formatting the calendar in Outlook.
• A wide variety of skills and actions for handling appointments, meetings, all-day events, and scheduling in general in the Outlook Calendar.

Click here for Contacts skills page.

Contact skills include:

• Setting up and formatting contacts in Outlook.
• Managing and using contacts from within Outlook, including sending messages to contacts, quickly finding contacts, sending contacts to others, creating vCards, and other skills.

Click here for the Tasks skills page.

Task skills include:

• Setting up and formatting tasks in Outlook.
• Managing and using tasks from within Outlook, including categorizing tasks, assigning tasks to others, setting task reminders, viewing tasks from within the calendar, and other skills.

Click here for the Shortcut skills page.

Shortcut skills include:

• Setting up Outlook shortcuts, and making the shortcut button useful.
• Adding file, web, and Outlook shortcuts to the shortcut bar.

Click here for the Maintenance skills page.

Maintenance skills include:

• Performing standard Outlook object maintenance, such as archiving old mail and other items, backing up mail, backing up rules, backing up contacts, compacting mailboxes and controlling mailbox size.

Click here for the Integration skills page.

Office integration skills include:

• Using Outlook features with other Office programs.
• Using the Outlook-integrated features in other programs, such as sending documents for review, as PDF, and so on.
• Integrating Office objects into Outlook items.