Beginner’s Guide to Using the Notes Feature in Outlook

Today we show you how to use the Notes feature to help get better organized.

One of the features in Outlook which isnt talked about much and perhaps underutilized is Notes.

Using notes while in Outlook can help you remember important ideas and organize your work.

The Notes feature opens up and to create a new note click New Note from the Ribbon.

After youve created your note just close out of it and it will automatically save to your list.

Under the Home Tab in Current View, youre able to change the view options of your notes.

you could also sort your notes alphabetically in Icon View.

Right click an empty area in the window and select Sort from the Context Menu.

Your notes are then sorted alphabetically.

you’ve got the option to also sort them by Color, Contact, Icon…etc.

To add it, tap the the dropdown menu and select More Commands.

Outlook Options will open up…dropdown the commands menu and select All Commands.

Then scroll down and highlight New Note and nudge the Add button.

Now youll see the New Note icon in the Quick Access Toolbar.

Email NotesAnother neat feature with Notes in Outlook is you could email them too.

Right-tap on the Note you want to send and select Forward.

Now send it off as you would any other email.

you’re able to also link Notes to your contacts.

Open a note and go for the icon in the upper left corner and select Contacts.

Here well look at copying a note to the Calendar.

go for the Move dropdown menu from the Ribbon then select to move or copy it to another location.

hit the File tab to access Backstage View and hit Options.

Here is an example of a Note after we customized the color, size, and font.