E-mail can overwhelm your inbox and kill your productivity if it gets out of hand. This chapter from Take back your life!: Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 to Get Organized and Stay Organized introduces some innovative strategies for managing e-mail, including tricks to write more effective messages (which will reduce the volume of e-mail you receive), ways to set up the To-Do Bar for planning and prioritizing, and steps for processing e-mail using an effective workflow model.

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