Managing Your Mail with Outlook 2010
After you start getting a bunch of e-mail messages, it’s easy to feel buried under a mountain of mail. Luckily, Outlook 2010 makes it easy to review incoming messages and deal with any attachments they may have.
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Do This . . . |
| View the Reading pane. |
Click the Reading Pane button on the View tab and choose Right
or Bottom (to indicate the position on-screen) from the
pop-up menu. |
| View a message in the Reading pane. |
Click the message header in the message list. |
| Display the contents of the next message in the list. |
Press the down arrow key. |
| Open a message in its own window. |
Double-click the message header. |
| View a conversation. |
Click the right arrow on left side of first message header to
display e-mails in a conversation; click down arrow to collapse
conversation again. |
| Preview an attachment. |
Click the attachment name, located at the top of the Reading
pane or the open message window. |
| Open an attachment. |
Double-click the attachment. |
| Save an attachment. |
Click the attachment name at the top of the Reading
pane/Message window, and then click the Save As button on the
Attachments tab. |
| Search for e-mail. |
Type some text in the Search Inbox box and press Enter. Make
additional selections to narrow your search by clicking buttons on
the Search tab that appears. |
| Clear a search. |
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| Click the Close Search button on the Search tab. |
