What Is Microsoft Outlook 2007?
Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a useful tool for email management. It incorporates multiple features that make email handling experience smoother and faster. Aimed to keep the information that you receive and send organized and easily accessible, Microsoft Outlook 2007 is designed to integrate online applications such as calendars to keep you updated and help you manage your time efficiently.
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Definition
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Microsoft Outlook 2007 is a popular email client software and personal information management system, or PIM, from Microsoft. It comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite or as a standalone application, and its main function is to improve the way you handle your emails and keep in touch with people.
History
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Microsoft Outlook is the successor of Microsoft's Schedule+ PIM software. The first version was released in 1997 as part of the Microsoft Office 97 Suite. Other versions of Microsoft Outlook were typically launched along with Microsoft Office releases, an exception being Microsoft Outlook 98. Microsoft released Outlook 2007 on November 12, 2006.
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Features
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Microsoft Outlook helps you organize all your stuff in one place. For that purpose, it is designed to integrate multiple email accounts and show all your emails in one place. It can also store email messages locally, so you won't need to access the Internet every time you need to check through your emails.
Along with these general features of Microsoft Outlook, Outlook 2007 includes "Instant Search," which helps you find email messages and attachments by searching for keywords and other data, such as sender, subject or date. The Microsoft Office Fluent user interface is designed to help you access Outlook's tools faster than in previous versions.
The Attachment Preview feature lets you have a quick glance at an email's attachment without actually opening it, helping you review messages and work faster.
Advantages
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The main advantage of Microsoft Outlook is that it helps you centralize all your email. Microsoft Outlook 2007 even allows you to set up and share a schedule such as an online event calendar. This feature is useful in companies, where multiple users work together and can schedule projects without overlapping other events or appointments.
Being more than just an email client, Outlook 2007 represents a convenient solution to manage contacts and schedules along emails at the same time.
Integration
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Microsoft Outlook can work with all email services that support POP3 or IMAP protocols. It has an automatic setup wizard that in most cases detect connection settings automatically.
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