IT Solutions and How Outlook Outsourced Their Improvements
Spending too much time on your e-mail will not improve your productivity. The amazing world of Microsoft Outlook is looking out for you because they . . .
Spending too much time on your e-mail will not improve your productivity. The amazing world of Microsoft Outlook is looking out for you because they . . .
E-mail is a big part of more and more jobs, with some workers now required to respond to dozens of mails each day. So, naturally, the tools used to manage e-mail keep getting better. Look no further than Outlook 2007 for the evidence. The latest version of the venerable messaging program that ships with the Microsoft Office System takes its built-in e-mail/calendaring/task management tools to another level.
In life, when you order a meal in a restaurant, you know that the chef has received your "message" because your food arrives a short while later (provided you've ordered off the menu and haven't angered the chef by making too many suggestions). When it comes to e-mail, however, things aren't so black and white. How can you be sure that someone has received and actually read your message? To put it bluntly, you can make it easy, but you can't make it happen. You can set it up for your recipients to let you know if they've read your note, but it's really up to them. I'll get to that in a minute. First, let's figure out how to set up message tracking. Because if you don't do that first, they can't use it.