Enhancing your email design in Outlook 365

Microsoft Outlook 365 (2023)    |    Intermediate
  • 11 videos | 44m 25s
  • Includes Assessment
  • Earns a Badge
  • Certification CPE
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Good email design helps you make a strong first impression, build brand consistency, and make your messages stand out. This course will teach you everything you need to know to efficiently create eye-catching professional emails in Outlook 365. The first part of the course focuses on templates and related tools to help you save time constructing your messages. You will learn how to create new emails using a template, insert frequently used text with Quick Parts and AutoText, and use Mail Merge to create a personalized message and send it in bulk to multiple recipients. Next, the course covers essential text formatting tools. See how to customize text styles, style sets, and themes for a polished, consistent look across emails and templates. Finally, you will learn about using a few graphic elements to enhance your email's visual appeal. See how to insert and format WordArt, shapes, and SmartArt diagrams, as well as how to arrange them on the page to fit your email's layout. This course aligns with objectives of Exam MO-400: Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019).

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

  • Discover the key concepts covered in the enhancing your email design in outlook 365 course
    create, save, and use email templates
    Use quick parts and autotext to insert email building blocks
    Use mail merge to send a bulk mailing to outlook contacts
    Create, save, and apply custom text styles
    Select, modify, and apply different style sets
  • Choose, customize, and apply themes to an email
    Create and format wordart
    Insert and format shapes
    Create and format smartart
    Manipulate shapes and graphics by resizing, rotating, moving, and more

IN THIS COURSE

  • 59s
    This video outlines the key content covered in the Enhancing your email design in Outlook 365 course; including creating templates, customizing style sets, and manipulating shapes and graphics. FREE ACCESS
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    When you frequently send similar emails, templates can save you time and maintain consistency. This video introduces you to two ways of creating templates in Outlook 365: using the My Templates tool and saving messages as a template. See how to create and use templates in this tutorial. This video aligns with MO-400 Microsoft Outlook exam objective: save messages in alternative formats. FREE ACCESS
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    3.  Using Quick Parts & AutoText in Outlook 365
    4m 50s
    While templates are useful for quickly creating whole messages, Outlook 365 also provides Quick Parts and AutoText for when you just want to insert bits of text that you often find yourself repeating. These features are useful for items like lists, greetings, tables, company boilerplates, or sign-off phrases. See how to use Quick Parts and AutoText in this tutorial. FREE ACCESS
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    4.  Creating bulk email with Mail Merge in Outlook 365
    4m 56s
    The Mail Merge feature in Outlook 365 allows you to send personalized emails to multiple contacts simultaneously. This video guides you through the process of selecting contacts, personalizing your messages, and sending bulk emails. FREE ACCESS
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    5.  Creating custom text styles in Outlook 365
    4m 37s
    Custom text styles allow you to personalize and standardize emails for a consistent, professional look that adheres with your brand. In this video, you will see how to create a new custom style, modify and manage existing styles, and use custom styles in an email or template. FREE ACCESS
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    6.  Customizing style sets in Outlook 365
    3m 28s
    Style sets enable quick formatting of emails, saving time and ensuring consistency. You can change aspects of a style set, such as colors and fonts, as well as modify individual styles in the set. Once you've customized a style set, you can save it for use in future emails. FREE ACCESS
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    7.  Using themes in Outlook 365
    3m 2s
    Like styles, themes are an intuitive way of giving your email a polished, professional look. Unlike styles, which apply to different kinds of text like titles, paragraphs, and quotations, themes apply to the entire email, including the background and colors of text and other objects in the email. See how to use themes to design attractive emails. FREE ACCESS
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    8.  Creating WordArt in Outlook 365
    4m 48s
    With WordArt, you can add eye-catching titles to your emails. In this video, you will see how to insert WordArt and choose its style, fill, outline, and effects. You'll also see how to access more advanced formatting options and delete unwanted WordArt. FREE ACCESS
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    9.  Inserting shapes in Outlook 365
    4m 16s
    When you are designing more elaborate emails, you may want to add shapes. You can insert a variety of shapes in Outlook 365 and add text inside. Once you have inserted shapes, you can format them by changing their fill, outline, effects, and more. See how in this tutorial. FREE ACCESS
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    10.  Creating SmartArt in Outlook 365
    4m 47s
    SmartArt is a powerful tool for creating flowcharts and diagrams right from your email. In this video, you will see how to create and edit a SmartArt graphic, modify its colors, layout, and style, and format the shapes that make it up. FREE ACCESS
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    11.  Manipulating shapes and graphics in Outlook 365
    4m 11s
    After you've inserted shapes or other graphic elements in a message, you can move and manipulate them to suit your desired layout. This tutorial will show you the basics of moving and handling shapes and other objects. Watch the video to learn how to resize, rotate, move, and arrange graphics and more. FREE ACCESS

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