How to Create a New Email Message without Opening Outlook

Written by Gilberto J Perera in How-to, Office | no responses

This step-by-step visual guide will show you how to create a shortcut that will be placed on your desktop so that you don’t have to open Outlook in order to send an email, you simply click the shortcut and the new message window will open. I used Outlook 2003 to create this tutorial. If you have any questions or comments let me know. Link to PDF.

Article posted on 02 26th, 2006

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