Outlook

Skills

Most of these instructions are aimed at Outlook 2003 users; however, most skills also work in Outlook 2002 (XP).

Configuration

• Configuring Outlook 2003 for your Business School email
• Configuring Outlook 2002 (XP) for your Business School email
• Setting up forwarding from your @mail.utexas.edu account to your Business School email

Email and Mailbox Management

• Write/Send email
• Opening/Responding to email
• Find someone by last name in the Global Address List
• Add Attachments
• Delete an attachment (but save the email message)
• Out of Office messages
• Check your mailbox size
• Mailbox Cleanup
• Access Public Folders
• Turn off Outlook sounds
• Turn off Desktop Alerts
• Creating reusable email messages
• Working with personal folders (.pst)
• Auto-Archiving
• Create signatures for messages
• Rules
• Delegation

Calendar

• Create an appointment
• Create a recurring appointment
• Plan and schedule a meeting
• Forward a calendar item
• Add UT holidays to your calendar
• Reserve an MBA Study Room (MBAs only)
• Reserve the Technology Training Lab

Contacts

• Add a contact
• Create a distribution list

Files & Handouts

You can find our Outlook training files and handouts on the Training Team SharePoint site. Access to this site is limited to current McCombs faculty, staff, and students. Please log in with mccombs\msbaccount, where msbaccount is your McCombs account. To download a file using Windows, right-click on the file name and select Save Target As..., then save to your computer.