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Navigate the interface

Navigate the interface

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Navigate the interface

- [Jess] Let's go over how to navigate Microsoft Outlook so that you can become more familiar with it throughout this course. At the very top of the screen is the ribbon. The ribbon is a tabbed interface that contains groups of actionable items that you might want to do for every module that you're in. These tabs will change according to where you are. For example, we're in email right now, but if we switch to the calendar, we'll have different tabs here with completely different options. If I click File all the way on the left, here's where I can get into Outlook options, such as how to customize Outlook. I can view my accounts and even add a new email account. I'll click the arrow on the top left hand side of the screen to go back to Outlook. Moving over to the bottom right hand side of the screen, this is the status bar. This tells us what mail server we're connected to. And I can also click the plus sign and the minus sign to zoom in on the preview text and make it larger or…

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