You can view any page on the Internet without even leaving Outlook, just as you can with your Web browser. In fact, Outlook is connected to a browser, Internet Explorer, so that all the Web pages you added to your list of favorites in Internet Explorer also show up on the Outlook Favorites menu. Just choose Favorites and then click the name of your favorite Web page.

While you're surfing the Web with Outlook, you can add any pages you see to your list of favorites by choosing Favorites, Add to Favorites, just as you can in Internet Explorer. If you do lots of heavy-duty Web browsing, Outlook may not be the best tool for the job because it doesn't have Internet Explorer's elaborate tools for Web browsing, such as History lists and the ability to view a Web page as raw text. But because you can't run Outlook without installing Internet Explorer, you can launch Internet Explorer anytime to take advantage of a more powerful set of browsing tools. Choose View, Go To, Web Browser from the Outlook menu to launch Internet Explorer.