Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional in 10 Minutes

By Dorothy Burke and Jane Calabria

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • Tell Us What You Think!
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Lesson 1. Navigating Windows 2000 Professional
  • Lesson 2. Working with a Window
  • Lesson 3. Using Menus
  • Lesson 4. Using Windows 2000 Professional Help
  • Lesson 5. Using Dialog Boxes
  • Lesson 6. Working with Multiple Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 7. Copying, Moving, and Linking Between Windows and Applications
  • Lesson 8. Using My Computer
  • Lesson 9. Managing Files with My Computer
  • Lesson 10. Using WordPad
  • Lesson 11. Understanding File Properties and the Recycle Bin
  • Lesson 12. Printing
  • Lesson 13. Using My Network Places
  • Lesson 14. Using the Control Panel
  • Lesson 15. Using Outlook Express Mail
    • Opening and Closing Outlook Express Mail
    • The Outlook Express Mail Window
    • Sending a Message
    • Using the Windows Address Book
    • Retrieving and Reading Your Messages
    • Saving a File Attached to a Message
    • Replying to a Message
    • Deleting Old Messages
  • Lesson 16. Sharing Workstations and Setting Passwords
  • Lesson 17. Using Internet Explorer 5
  • Lesson 18. Web Site and Document Searching
  • Lesson 19. Troubleshooting, Restarting, and Disaster Planning
  • Lesson 20. Customizing the Windows 2000 Environment

The Outlook Express Mail Window

Outlook Express provides a communications hub from which you can access both email messages and newsgroups. Whenever you start Outlook Express, it displays the opening window, shown in Figure 15.1. This communications hub displays icons for reading mail and newsgroup messages, composing messages, accessing the address book, downloading your messages, and finding people on the Internet.

Figure 15.1 Outlook Express provides a communications hub for all your messaging needs.

From the Folder list (in the left pane), you can access your Inbox (incoming mail), Outbox (outgoing mail), Sent Items, Deleted Items, and Drafts, along with any news servers you set up in Outlook Express News.

The opening screen also displays the number of unread messages in your Inbox, along with the number of messages in your Outbox and the Drafts folders.

Using theView , Layout command, you can customize the layout of Outlook Express, displaying any of these optional elements:

• Outlook Bar A vertical bar of icons representing each Outlook Express folder: Inbox, Outbox, and so on. You can use this bar to change from one folder to another.
• folder Bar This bar, which appears just above the main viewing area, provides a drop-down list from which you can select the folder (Inbox, Outbox, and so on) that you wish to view.
• Folder List This bar appears on the left side of the window and shows all default folders and folders that you create.
• Outlook Bar Displays a list of icons on the left side of the window.
• Status Bar Displays a bar across the bottom of the window displaying current status of a program as in how many messages are in a folder and so forth.
• Toolbar Toggles the toolbar on or off.
• Views Bar Allows you to change which messages are displayed and allows you to create custom views.

You can also change the location, the icons of the toolbar, and the characteristics of the preview pane (the window in which you view messages) with the View , Layout command.

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