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Step-by-step guide shows you how to use e-mail. 
  • Sending and Receiving E-mail
  • Fancy E-mail
  • Address Book
  • Organizing E-mail
  • Customizing the Outlook Window
  • Teacher's Guide
  • Tutorials in Print

Harness E-Mail

Step-by-step information about how e-mail works and how to make it work for you.

 
Microsoft Office's Instructional Resources offers many online tutorials or tutorial downloads.
 
 

 
About.com has a free online basic email course in Outlook Express.
You will learn how to add music, change stationary, create message rules to help stop SPAM and many other skills.  Usually the instructions are very easy to understand.
Although the course is not designed for Microsoft Outlook, many of the processes transfer from one type of mail software to another.
All you have to do is sign up for the program and you are emailed the lesson.  Easy.  No Pressure!
 
About.com have numerous newletters.  Be careful when you sign up for a class or a newsletter that you are only signing up for what yo have checked.   Sometimes the default will be checked, and you will need to UN-check an item.
If you accidentally get ones you didn't intend to get or no longer want, I have found About.com very good about deleting names from their mailing list.

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Vocabulary
 
Attachment
A file attached to an email message.
 
Broadcasting
Sending the same message to several users at once.
 
E-mail
Short for electronic mail, the transmission of messages over
communications networks. 
 
SPAM
Electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings.
 

Source: Webopedia

 

E-Mail Etiquette
 
Being on-line has its own set of social rules.  Without the benefit of external clues such as facial expressions, tone of voice and body language, email messages can appear blunt and sarcastic.
Etiquette provides guidelines for courteous communication.
 
The following are Netiquette sites:
 
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