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Summary: If you use outlook, buy this book
Review: Anyone who has struggled to learn anything useful from a "How to be a Dummy in 24 Hours for Idiots" will love this book. I found the answers to half a dozen annoying questions in my first 15 minutes of browsing. The authors explain the underlying structure of the Outlook/Exchange data model so that Outlook's myriad ways of looking at and working with your data finally make sense.If you use Outlook, either by choice or by corporate fiat, buy this book.
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Summary: A New Outlook!
Review: Finally, there's an Outlook book for us -- folks who knowenough about Outlook to be dangerous but who also feel that there'smore hidden away under Outlook's covers that we just couldn't (or wouldn't!) take the time to find or understand. I suspect I'm like a lot of you -- I pretty much "live" in Outlook all day. By that I mean that it's the primary application I use all day, every day. I've been a fan of O'Reilly's Nutshell handbooks for years -- and this one maintains the tradition of brevity and density of content while being entertaining to read. In addition to the expected full complement of reference information, there are a large assortment of tips sprinkled throughout that provide some new ideas about how to make better use of Outlook. If you're looking for a great helper in making Outlook more useful and effective, this is the book to get.
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Summary: Hard to use if you are not Windows literate
Review: I am a Mac user and I need to learn Outlook 2000 for Windows. I am not Windows literate and so I found this book to be very technical and hard to understand. If you are familiar with the ins and outs of Windows I am sure you will find this book helpful. I guess I am in the Outlook for Dummies category!
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Summary: A superb book from a superb series
Review: Like many, I've come to depend on O'Reilly's ... In a Nutshell series for down-to-earth, no-nonsense advice that goes beyond the fluff and re-written help files common in other books. This book continues that tradition of excellence. It is comprehensive, accessible, and well-organized. I've used Outlook daily since Outlook 97 shipped in January, 1997, and I thought I knew most of what there was to know about the program. Not so. I found new and useful things in each chapter. This book is a real eye-opener, and I'd recommend it highly to anyone who uses Outlook and wants to get the most from it. I was fortunate enough to be a technical reviewer for this book, and it was obvious to me even while reading early drafts that this book was a winner. Having now seen it in printed form, I'm even more impressed. If you use Outlook, do yourself a favor and buy this book.
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Summary: Good Desk Reference
Review: Problem with Outlook is that there are a lot of books out there that tell you that they will teach you how to use Outlook but when you buy them they are essentially This is how you send an e-mail, this is how to make a journal entry.' My company even paid for a local college to train us on Outlook which turned out to be a dismal failure. In other words, it is not easy to learn the power of Outlook. That being said, I searched through bunches of books for something that would teach me how to use Outlook. The fact is, Outlook is a multi-faceted, reasonably complex piece of software and there is no book out there that is going to teach you everything you need to know about it. This is as good as you are going to get for the moment (if someone knows a better one, please e-mail me). They basically unleashed a team of people on Outlook and tore it apart and reported the result. What I like most about this book is that it is not reserved in saying 'Outlook won't let you do that'. It also warns you of potential ways of blowing up the system - some that would not be obvious. I don't know how good it will be for upper level stuff like tieing Outlook to databases or giving other Lotus like abilities, but I am still working on archiving so it will be awhile anyway.
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Summary: Everything you need to know and then some
Review: The authors did a great job of providing all the information needed to successfully and efficiently utilize Outlook. They also were able to convey just the right amount of knowledge on the basics while giving more attention to those areas most frequently questioned. I used the book to guide me while creating a class outline to teach Outlook to my co-workers and it met my needs perfectly.
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Summary: it is hard to crack this nutshell
Review: the reviews promised something useful, readable, and relatively easy to use. Nutshell implies succinct and useable. This book is definitely not easy to read, nor easy to use. I bought it primarily to learn to manage my different account names and email accounts and funnel them all into Outlook or Outlook Express. After 2 hours with the book, i still have not found out how to do something that should be so simple. I find the book dense and technical and almost impossible to apply. Headers and chapter headings do not point you to simple applications in a transparent way, at least transparent to a non-techie. i am not a techie. I am a businessman, with a doctorate in English. I am trying manage what should be relatively simple. And the book does not deliver. I would return the book, except i highlighted one page before i discovered the rest of the book is such tough sledding. and i would not even be writing this review, except that last night i was asking my semi-techie son about Java programming, and he gave me the companion book Java in a Nutshell. I asked him how is it. He confessed it was almost impossible to use, too dense, too technical, too difficult. AHa, the Nutshell problem may not be me after all. I do not know who these guys are giving this book 5 stars. Maybe they are friends of the authors, or delight in obfuscation and deciphering technical directions. But for me, anyway, your average 50 year old businessman with a PhD in English and low end technical skills, this nutshell is very very hard to crack.
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Summary: Another great nutshell reference
Review: This is another fine nutshell series book. It is easy enough to read, but gives enough detail to power users to allow them to uncover advanced features easily. The book is very well balanced. Beginnners may not feel right at home, but if you have been using Outlook for any period of time, this book is a valuable addition to your library. Well worth the price.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This is just one of many fine publications in their series "in a nutshell" for computer users. This manual for the advanced user was provided to me for review a long time ago as editor at www.cyberjournalist.com, and today I use it as an important reference tool when dealing with various client installation issues.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This is just one of many fine publications in their series "in a nutshell" for computer users. This manual for the advanced user was provided to me for review a long time ago as editor at www.cyberjournalist.com, and today I use it as an important reference tool when dealing with various client installation issues.
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