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Outlook is arguably one of the most popular personal information managers in use today. Unfortunately, I suspect many users do not use the program to the full potential. OIAN provides a very lucid explanation of the myriad installation options for the product (eg: Corporate or Internet Mail Only) and finally EXPLAINS what the differences are.

Tom Syroid and Bo Leuf clearly have used the product for hundreds and hundreds of hours and have managed to distill the information that everyone needs. The TIPS alone are worth the price of admission. If you use Outlook, sooner or later you will make use of most of the Tips that are scattered throughout the book (and neatly indexed too).

I use Outlook for seveal hours a day and investing a few precious hours reading this book has paid off immensely.

After reading this book, I found I had a much clearer view of *how* Outlook is supposed to work and now I believe I spend less time poking around the product and more time thinking about ways to expand my particular use of it.

There are many useful gems of wisdom from the authors that bear testament to their experience with the program.

Overall, I am sure that this book will become the de facto reference for Outlook and as far as I am concerned, if you use Outlook 2000 you must have this book to make effective use of your time with the product. Tim O'Reilly should suggest bundling this book with the CD from M'soft ;-) It would save Microsoft mega dollars - they wouldn't need to bother with documentation for Outlook 2000. What was I thinking? Save Microsoft's money???