Product Description

Brace youself, because here comes QuickSteps: The fast, easy, accessible information on Outlook 2003 in a full-color cookbook-style format. Provides answers to all of your How-do-I questions in a concise and meaningful way. Lengthwise page layout allows for easy page viewing. Useful tips and cautions are displayed in the margins so that they don’t break the flow of the quick steps themselves.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #351459 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover

We know a picture is worth a thousand words--so we went heavy on pictures and light on words in this easy-to-use guide. Color screenshots and brief instructions show you how to use all the powerful Outlook features in no time. Follow along and learn to handle e-mail, digitally sign messages, use Business Contact Manager, update your calendar, schedule appointments, use Outlook with PDAs, and so much more. Each chapter’s “How to” list and color-coded tabs make it easy to flip straight to the tasks you need to do. Get the book that gets you started using Outlook right away.

In Each Chapter:

• Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks
• Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things
• Bonus information related to the topic being covered
• Errors and pitfalls to avoid
• Screenshots with callouts show and explain exactly what you’ll see on your computer screen while you’re doing a task

Marty Matthews has more than 40 years of computing experience and has written more than 60 books, including Windows XP QuickSteps, Windows XP: A Beginner’s Guide, FrontPage 2003: The Complete Reference, and Outlook 98 Made Easy. Kellen Diamanti has been explaining technical topics for 30 years. She has designed and developed hundreds of articles, user manuals, videos, and computer-based training modules for laypersons and professionals in Fortune 500 companies as well as public agencies and educational institutions. Curt Simmons is a technology author and trainer. The best-selling author of more than 40 computer and technology books including How to Do Everything with Windows XP, Curt most enjoys writing about Microsoft operating systems and products.

About the Author
Series editors Martin and Carole Matthews each have more than thirty years of computing experience. They have written 57 U.S. editions of 32 titles, a number of which have been critically acclaimed. Among their more recent books are: Windows XP, A Beginner’s Guide; FrontPage 2002: The Complete Reference; Windows 2000, A Beginner’s Guide; Office 2000 Answers, Certified Tech Support; Windows 98 Companion; and Windows 98 Answers, Certified Tech Support.

Customer Reviews

Microsoft Ofifce Outlook 2003 Quick Steps
Book is written in simple language and in an easy-to-follow format. Excellent diagrams. Very good instructional book for beginners and a good reference for those of us who need a refresher course in Outlook.

A picture book, with little information
This "QuickSteps" book is largely a picture book: lots of nice, color screen shots of various parts of the Outlook interface, with sketchy text captions pointing to various things to tell you what they are and do.

There's not a single scrap of information in this book that you can't find from doing a quick search in Outlook's own online help. And because of "QuickSteps" relatively thin size (compared to most software manuals), it gives you only the most superficial introduction to the topics it covers.

My advice is to skip this book -- even at the "amazing low price!" as it claims right on the cover -- and use the Outlook online help and tutorials. Then if you still need more information, get one of the real books.

Finally common sense in tech!
I am a real estate agent, looking for the best way to manage contacts. I have Outlook but didn't have a clue how to go about integrating everything without reading a 1000 page book. I thought about Act! but had very mixed reviews on it. So I searched for a book that would quickly get me up and running in Outlook, and therefore would quickly tell me if the software I already have is powerful enough to do the job I need yet easy enough to let me spend my time on my real job -- not learning more software. This book does both; and the quality of the paper and color made it a pleasure to read. I got my answer -- yes, Outlook can do the job quickly and easily, freeing my time to sell real estate.