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Microsoft Outlook Because it is a part of Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook is one of the most popular programs for accessing e-mail. Although many other e-mail programs are available, most of them work much like Outlook for the basic chores of reading and creating e-mail messages. Internet Explorer which comes with Windows includes a scaled-back ver- sion of Outlook called Outlook Express. Outlook Express is designed to work only with e-mail that you send and receive over the Internet, not for e-mail that you exchange with other users over a local-area network. As a result, Outlook Express is generally not used as an e-mail program for network users. However, if each network user has an Internet connection and an Internet e-mail account, Outlook Express works fine. The following sections describe some basic procedures for using Microsoft Outlook to send and receive e-mail. Sending e-mail Sending an e-mail message to another network user is pretty straightforward in Outlook. Just follow these steps:

1. Start Microsoft Outlook by choosing Microsoft Outlook from the Start➪ Programs menu.

Outlook appears in its own window, as shown in Figure 5-1.

2. Create a message to send to another user.

You do so by clicking the New Mail Message button. A window appears in which you may type the e-mail address of the recipi- ent usually the recipient’s network user ID, the subject of the message, and then the message itself. Figure 5-2 shows a message that has been composed and is now ready to be delivered.

3. Type your message and click the Send button.

The message is delivered to the user listed in the To field. Here are a few additional points about sending e-mail: ⻬ The recipient must run Outlook or another e-mail program on his or her computer to check for incoming e-mail. When the recipient runs his or her e-mail program, your message is delivered. ⻬ You can keep a personalized address list using the Address Book feature, which is available from the Tools menu in Outlook. 54 Part I: Getting Started with Networking