The day to day ramblings of an IT Professional and Community Leader

Outlook 2013: Take Action!

I have been using Microsoft Office 2013 since it was in early beta mode, and I still find features on a daily basis that I love. Of course, some of them I have been using all along, like Action Items.

Microsoft Outlook analyzes your e-mails and lets you know if it has found things, like Action Items. So when I received the following e-mail:

At the top of the e-mail the following option now appears:

Because there is an address in the e-mail (I think it is LinkedIn’s main offices) the Bing Maps option appears; however it is the Action Items that I like… Outlook’s intelligent analysis determined that the e-mail was asking me to do something, so when you click on Action Items you see the following:

Nice… you can now see at a glance what is being asked of you in the e-mail. But that is not the end of it…

Fred wants to meet me for coffee Thursday morning. You will notice that the application bar has the option of Suggested Meetings.

So the good news is it found the meeting. It did get the time wrong, and I am not quite sure how that happened, but it does make sure you keep on your toes. You can click on Schedule Meeting and it will create the calendar object, including inviting Fred. How cool is that?