Send e-mail

I think the most commonly performed task in Outlook is sending an e-mail.
To send an e-mail click the button “New” when the “Email” is selected in the navigation bar.
If another program is selected in the navigation bar, such as “Calendar”, then click the downward-pointing black arrow next to the “New” button, and select “E-mail” from drop-down menu.

In both cases, it opens a new email message.
At the top we find the message,similar to any Outlook 2007 program, we find the “Ribbon”.
I suppose by now everyone has already heard of the “Ribbon” in other Office 2007 applications, so I will not elaborate on this and discuss about the various other buttons that we use.

Back to the new e-mail.
In the “To …” type the email address of the recipient (1).
As soon as you start typing, Outlook will try to help you by listing the email addresses of recipients to whom had you previously sent an e-mail.
If the e-mail address is in the list, you can select it and stop typing.
A second way is click on the “To …” button, it will open your Contacts list, where you can choose the recipient. More on “Contacts” in a later lesson.

In the “Subject”, type the subject of your message (2). It does not matter what it is, just brief about the content of the message.
And below it, you type the message (3).
Click the “Send” button (4) when you’re done.

When we select the message sent in the “Sent items” folder, we can read its content in the reading pane.

Formatting Text

To change the text in our e-mail, we have a number
of options.
On whatever way you format your text, the first thing you should do is to select it.

We find the first option under the “Message” tab in the ribbon.
We find the second option under the “Format Text” tab. Here we have the most options for formatting text

And the third option, and this is new for all Office 2007 applications, is the Mini toolbar.
This appears when you’ve selected text, and the mouse pointer is moved slightly upward.

Since all these buttons are for formatting text, these are all familiar options, so I will not dwell on this. If this is not the case for you, read the course on Word, these are discussed there.

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