What?
Outlook is known primarily as one of the software apps Microsoft offers to send and receive email messages. It also can manage your calendar, store names and numbers of your contacts, and track your tasks. It is designed to help you be more productive. Few people use it as robustly as its capacity.
Outlook is the desktop program used to access email (Office 365 email) at work. As an employee, you can download Office ProPlus, the Office Suite, on five PCs/Macs, five tablets, and five phones1 by clicking on the Install Now button in Office 3652. This will install Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Access (Access only on a PC) on your computer. You should only install ProPlus on your personally owned devices.
2 Office 365 is the service that hosts MC’s email system and all other Office applications
Why?
If you use Outlook only for email or your calendar, you are missing several tools to help you use your time more efficiently and be more productive. The Task Lists feature is easy to use and can be created to fit your specific needs and organizational style.
You can schedule tasks for later today and more than one year in advance. You can organize them by topics such as individual classes, departmental tasks, and committee tasks. You can create specific one-time tasks, e.g., call the dean’s office to schedule an evaluation or recurring tasks, e.g., compile data for monthly reports.
Where can I find more information?
- ELITE Microsoft Essentials Classes
- Outlook 2016: Time Management with Calendar and Tasks (Work Day Learning—LinkedIn e-class)
- YouTube videos on Tasks
For more information about creating a Tasks List and Reminders in Outlook, contact Cynthia Mauris @ Cynthia.mauris@montgomerycollege.edu.