Fortunately for us, the author Jim Boyce is NOT a graduate of Microsoft's School of Too Little Information Spread out over Too Many Pages.
This is a full-color tome with a cookbook approach. He tells you what he wants to teach you, provides color illustrations and appropriate text and leads you to learning!
Each section is color-coded, for easy reference.
- Getting Started - Writing and Sending Email - Receiving and Reading Email - Using Internet Messaging - - Finding Friends - Browsing Newsgroups - Working With Contacts - Managing a Calendar - - Working with Tasks - Working with Notes - Managing Items and Folders - Using Outlook as a Desktop Manager - - Managing Your Outlook Files - Customizing Outlook - Using Office Tools with Outlook - Using the Office Clipboard
My favorite part of this book: the cautionary notes. I found that if I read the section's "Cautions" before starting, I avoided the most common mistakes newbies* make.