Customizing Outlook Today With Microsoft Outlook 2003

Thursday, July 28, 2011

To begin with, display the advanced toolbar by choosing view, toolbars and then advanced. Next click the outlook today button located on the advanced toolbar. The outlook today page will then appear. Within the today page click on customize outlook today to begin customizing it. Within this you can customize the calendar, tasks and messages sections of today. You can also change the style of the today page.

Now make sure that you check when starting, go directly to outlook today. It will specify that you want today to be the start-up page. Next go into tasks and select today's tasks. It will specify that only those tasks you have to perform today should appear in the tasks list.

From the show today in this style list, select standard (one column). Now click on save changes to save the changes and close the customize page. Your changes take effect immediately, and the calendar, tasks and messages headings appear in a single column.

Now choose file and then exit, it will close outlook. Next you will be restarting outlook to verify that the change from the inbox page to the today page is reflected in the start-up folder.

Next start outlook up again and notice that the today page is now the start-up page. You can activate shortcuts if you wish by clicking the shortcuts icon in the navigation pane. Finally, choose properties to open the properties dialog box for your mailbox. The mailbox stores all the mail-related folders, such as inbox, outbox and drafts.

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