Email Workshop

This section of the workshop deals with setting up and using the features of Outlook Express. This different from Outlook which is described in some detail in the book. Outlook Express only deals with email and does not have the calendar functions and to-do lists of Outlook. Although the email features of Outlook are broadly similar to Outlook Express the exact manipulations in Express cannot always be transferred directly to Outlook.

All users of Windows 98 and above have the option of using the Microsoft Mailing program Outlook Express. This is a part of the Internet Explorer segment of the Windows program. Other commonly used programs include Outlook, Netscape Mail, Eudora and Pegasus.

The purpose of a mailing progam is to help the user send and receive email messages, to keep such messages organized, to keep track of useful email addresses and to handle email attachments.

In these sections the instructions relate to Microsoft Outlook Express. If there is enough interest we will produce similar pages for other mailing programs.

The first section is on setting up the Outlook Express program.