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3 Top Reasons To Upgrade To Microsoft Outlook 2010

To my mind, Microsoft Outlook 2010 is the leading tool for managing your electronic mail and personal information. Why? For years now, Outlook has offered robust mail management methods such as rules and folders that are able to work with multiple mail accounts, freeing you from the need to deal with multiple different interfaces. And with all your personal information in Outlook, it became easy to get an overall picture of what was going on in your life at any given time.

Now Microsoft Outlook 2010 is available, with a shiny modern interface, in addition to some fresh features that result in real plusses for you. While nothing is perfect, Microsoft Outlook 2010 could be the closest software so far to satisfying all your digital communication needs at work, home, and school.

New Features

First thing you’ll see is the shiny new interface, with the Ribbon appearing everywhere, rather than just here and there, as it did in Outlook 2007. I believe the new design is a little cleaner in general, and the Ribbon does a fine job of making the commands you are most apt to need quickly available.

Conversation view is a cool approach to group threads of messages so you can more easily deal with one subject at a time. Open up only the conversation you want to deal with and you will more easily avoid distractions and sidetracks. Click View, then set the Show as Conversations checkbox and you are ready to go.

Do you find yourself continually repeating actions such as assigning a category to certain thypes of messages, then digging through your Outlook folders until you find the one where you store these messages?

Quick Steps is a new Outlook 2010 feature that can free you from some of this repetition. You can use predefined Quick Steps or build your own custom ones to deal with situations like the above. Then just select the message and click the Quick Step to deal with it. I can see this feature becoming very popular.

Would you like to learn more about these and other reasons to upgrade? Visit this Outlook 2010 site.
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