SmartScreen technology will automatically filter out junk e-mail to the Junk E-mail folder. Go to

Tools > Options > Preferences > Junk E-mail to set options. Select the level of filtering you prefer, and create lists of Safe Senders (“white lists”) and Blocked Senders (“black lists”).

Avoid getting those “Your mailbox is over its size limit” messages. Go to Tools > Mailbox Cleanup—a single tool that does four important cleanup tasks. Tools/Mailbox Cleanup can help with:

1. a mailbox-size check
2. finding old or large items
3. archiving old items
4. emptying deleted items.

Customize all types of conditional e-mail management—moving to a folder, deleting, forwarding of items—based on many factors including sender, content, and subject. Go to Tools > Rules & Alerts > E-mail Rules > New Rule to create rules from templates or step through a Rules Wizard.

Add frequently used folders to a Favorites list. Drag and drop a folder from the Mail Folders pane up to the Favorite Folders area. Drag and drop to reposition in Favorites. Right click to remove.

Ctrl+1,2,3,4,5 will display Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes. While viewing mail, Ctrl-N creates a new message, Ctrl-S sends, Ctrl-R replies, Ctrl-Shift-R replies all, Ctrl-F forwards, and

Ctrl-D deletes.

For planning and scheduling a meeting, you can view you and your colleagues’ calendars side-by-side. In the navigation pane, click Open A Shared Calendar to view those calendars you have permission to view.

Note: You and your colleague must be on the same Microsoft Exchange Server.

Display more information on the screen with easier-to-read vertical orientation. While viewing mail, click View > Reading Pane > Right.

You can momentarily preview an incoming message via a small caption above the task bar. Turn this feature on or off by clicking Tools > Options > E-mail Options > Advanced E-mail Options, and select Display a New Mail Desktop Alert.