How to Keep your Web clippings in Outlook Notes

As you are surfing the Web or reviewing a document, you might come across some information that you want to save for a project that you are working on or for some other future reference.

In the days before computers, ATM machines, and 250+ channels of television, when people wanted to save some information from a newspaper or magazine, they used to cut the articles out by using scissors and then file the information in a folder. Now you can put your scissors away and let Outlook Support organize all those electronic clippings by using Outlook Notes.

You've probably noticed the Notes button in the Navigation Pane It sits there lonely while you devote your attention to the Mail, Calendar, and Tasks buttons. It's time for you to get with the program and get more out of Outlook.

1.Click and drag the bar above the Mail button. You can increase or decrease the number of buttons shown by moving the bar. When you make the navigation buttons area smaller, the icons move to the button tray. The icons on the button tray can also be clicked.

2. Click Notes to view all of your Outlook Notes.

Outlook as default e-mail program

Set Outlook as the default e-mail program

Your default e-mail program is the program that starts when you choose to read mail or send a message from Microsoft Internet Explorer, or when you choose to send a message from a Microsoft Office or other e-mail enabled program (one that's not an e-mail program, but that you can send mail from). In Internet Explorer version 5, Microsoft Outlook Express is automatically set as the default e-mail program for the browser, Microsoft Office, and other e-mail enabled programs. How you change the default e-mail program to Outlook 2000 depends on whether you've run Outlook since setting it up on your computer.

Use the procedure that applies to your situation:

I have not run Outlook 2000 since setting it up on my computer.

1. Start Outlook 2000 and wait for it to complete its setup tasks (also called "first run tasks").
2. When you see the message
   "Outlook is not currently your default manager for Mail, News and contacts. Would you like to register Outlook as the default manager?"

click Yes.

You must quit and restart any open Office programs to have them recognize Outlook as the new default e-mail program. You might also need to quit and restart any other open, e-mail enabled programs.

Set Outlook as default e-mail program

I have run Outlook 2000 since setting it up on my computer.

If you've already run Outlook 2000, but you clicked No when asked if you wanted to register it as your default e-mail, newsgroup, calendar, and contact manager, you can register Outlook as the default e-mail program from within Internet Explorer.

1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. On the Tools menu, click Internet Options, and then click the Programs tab.
3. In the E-mail, Newsgroups, Calendar, and Contact list lists, click Microsoft Outlook. Click OK.

Note If you're using a browser other than Internet Explorer 5, see the Help for that browser to learn how to change the default e-mail program.