Outlook Test/Study Guide

Blind Carbon Copy

. The email address field you use when you want to send someone a copy of an email so they can see it, but no one else who got the email knows this other person also got the email.

Follow Up Flag

A way to mark emails or appointments with a visual cue that tells you or reminds you when something needs to be taken care of and how important it is.

Recurrence

An appointment that repeats on a regular basis (for example, every Tuesday).

Draft Email

An email message you haven't yet sent.

Email Stationery

Lets you personalize e-mail messages with backgrounds and patterns and design elements such as fonts, bullets, colors, and effects. You can choose from a predefined list of Outlook stationery and themes.

Search Folder

You use this when you need to find an email that meets certain criteria. EX: all emails from JOE WEST.

Quick Step (as in MS Office)

A feature that applies multiple actions at the same time to email

MS Outlook

A personal information manager from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft Office suite. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, journal, and web browsing.

Attachment (Email)

A computer file sent along with an email message

Navigation Bar

How you switch between the different areas of Outlook, such as Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes

Carbon Copy

The email address field you use when you want to send someone a copy of an email but it's not necessarily intended for them. When you want this recipient to see the email and know about it, but not necessarily respond to it. Other recipient's know this person got the email as well.

RSS Feed

This uses a family of standard web feed formats to publish frequently updated information: blog entries, news headlines, audio & video.

Export (Data)

To pull out information from a program so you can save it as a backup or upload it a different/similar program on another computer. This would save you time from re-typing all the information into the other program on the other computer

Forward (an email)

To send an email you received to someone else

Plain Text Email

Typing that has no formatting