5 Time-Saving Tips using Outlook 2007

There are never enough hours in the day when you’re running a small business, so every minute saved is an added bonus. Without spending money, could you be getting more out of the software you already own? Here are five ways Outlook 2007 can help you win back some time:

Save time searching: Outlook's Instant Search means you can dig out keywords, contact information and dates from any Outlook record – such as emails, your task list, contacts or calendar items. You’ll be amazed at how much time it will save you back-tracking. And remember, once you've found an individual email, you can track automatically through the relevant conversation to see what happened before and after.
Get organised with the big picture: Outlook’s To Do bar has all the tools in one place to organise your day - like your calendar and a list of upcoming appointments and tasks that need completing. The To-Do bar is all your priorities neatly organised in one place.
Connect quickly with colleagues: Outlook lets you share your calendar, so important contacts have immediate access to your information. You can also publish your calendars to Office Online and send electronic business cards, making it even quicker to communicate with people. That means you can not only share your availability with colleagues, but also with clients. You can choose to share full calendar information, or just your availability. Which is handy: there's no need for customers to know that your blocked out time is actually a corporate day out at Ascot Races…
Find out what's going on around you: Outlook will save you time keeping pace with what’s going on in your industry and in the outside world by letting you manage news bulletins, RSS feeds and blogs – all through the same single interface. In today's rich multi-media internet world, it's helpful to have text, audio and video feeds all collated and organised in one place.
Go mobile! With one easy click, the Outlook Mobile Service lets you send and receive text and picture messages between Outlook and any mobile phone. In fact, Outlook will even forward contacts, appointments, reminders and tasks as text messages if that's most convenient – ideal if you're often out on the road.