Email and Office Tutorials (Office 2003, Office 2007, and Office 2010)

Microsoft Office 2003 Microsoft Office 2007 This series of free tutorials will cover the email functionality built into Microsoft Office, specifically in Office 2003 and Office 2007 — respectively the most popular version and the newest version at the time of this writing.

Both Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 were built to work seamlessly with other Microsoft Office applications like Word or Excel, making Outlook 2003 or Outlook 2007 the ideal email program to work in a Microsoft Office environment.

It is however possible to use third-party email programs like Mozilla Thunderbird or WordPerfect Mail with Microsoft Office, or email clients made by Microsoft, like Outlook Express, Windows Mail or Windows Live Mail.

Email and Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office and Outlook 2007 These tutorials will show you how to use email from within Office 2007 applications, and assume that you have Outlook 2007 on the same computer. These tutorials will start by showing you how to Email document files from Word 2007 and Email spreadsheet files from Excel 2007.

These tutorials will show you how to email your Word documents or Excel spreadsheets as email attachments. In later tutorials, you will learn how send your Word or Excel documents "inline" — i.e. as the body content of your email. Also, two common requests are the default text settings you have for your Office applications: here's how to change the default font in Word 2007, and change the default font in Excel 2007.

For a more in-depth look at the cornerstone application of the Office productivity suite, please see our Word 2007 tutorial that covers basic to advanced features of this text editor.

Office documents and Outlook 2007

When you receive Word documents (any version) or Excel spreadsheets attached to an email message, you can see them right inside the email, or save them on your computer for later reviewing or editing: preview an Excel attachment in Outlook 2007, and preview a Word document in Outlook 2007.

To actually keep a copy of the attached file on your desktop, for example, learn how to save and download an Excel spreadsheet from Outlook 2007, or save and download a Word document from Outlook 2007. (Note that these tutorials also apply to Outlook 2010, which is extremely similar to its predecessor!)