The Mi­crosoft Out­look 2010 e-mail pro­gram in­cludes new fea­tures and ca­pa­bil­i­ties to help you stay in touch and al­low you to bet­ter man­age your time and in­for­ma­tion.

1. New ex­pand­ed rib­bon.

De­signed to help you quick­ly find the com­mands you need to car­ry out any task, the ex­pand­ed rib­bon is or­ga­nized in­to log­i­cal groups or­ga­nized by tabs. The Out­look 2010 Rib­bon re­places the pre­vi­ous menus in the main Out­look win­dow. Cus­tomize it so that it in­cludes tasks that are bet­ter suit­ed to your work style for greater ef­fi­cien­cy.

2. En­hanced con­ver­sa­tion views.

With this new op­tion you can man­age your mes­sages more eas­i­ly mak­ing it eas­i­er to fol­low up and a friend­ly way to man­age them. Re­gard­less of the fold­er con­tain­ing the mes­sages you can see the full set of dis­cus­sions, in­clud­ing re­spons­es. Find the most re­cent and eas­i­ly de­ter­mine which is most im­por­tant to you. Use them to cat­e­go­rize or ig­nore a full con­ver­sa­tion.

3. Quick steps.

This fea­ture al­lows you to choose the com­mands and pro­ce­dures you use more of­ten with on­ly one click. You can cus­tomize the de­fault quick steps and cre­ate your own but­tons. Quick steps gallery in­cludes but­tons for tasks and files with one click, send mes­sages to your team and oth­er com­mon com­mands. Don't waste a minute and cre­ate your own "quick steps" that will help save you very vi­tal and pre­cious time when your In­box is about to burst and your boss ag­i­tat­ed­ly asks you about that last minute re­port.

4. Re­quest a meet­ing.

If you re­ceive an e-mail mes­sage on which you want to hold a meet­ing, you can re­ply to the mes­sage with­out open­ing the cal­en­dar, all per­sons men­tioned in the "To" line in the orig­i­nal mes­sage will be in­vit­ed as "Re­quired as­sis­tants" and all those in­clud­ed in the 'cc' line will ap­pear as "op­tion­al".

5. In­stant search­es.

Eas­i­ly find the e-mail you need with­out hav­ing to search fold­er by fold­er or in the chaos of your In­box. Lim­it your search re­sults us­ing cri­te­ria such as sender, key­words of the top­ic and oth­er in­for­ma­tion such as whether the email con­tains at­tach­ments or not. The "Search tools" tabs in­cludes a set of fil­ters that makes it even more ac­cu­rate search.

6. Ig­nore con­ver­sa­tion

How many times have you been copied in a string of back and forth emails and an­swers that are not rel­e­vant to you? Well with this new fea­ture, you won't have to delete each mes­sage, the ig­nore com­mand moves the full con­ver­sa­tion and any sub­se­quent mes­sage that ar­rives re­gard­ing that con­ver­sa­tion to the delet­ed items fold­er.

7. No more miss­ing sub­jects.

You click "send" on a mes­sage with­out a sub­ject and a mes­sage will au­to­mat­i­cal­ly ap­pear con­firm­ing that your miss­ing a sub­ject. No more em­bar­rass­ment and scream­ing "yikes!" when it's too late.

8. Pre­view the cal­en­dar.

When you re­ceive a meet­ing in­vite, you can now pre­view the de­tails of the meet­ing faster in your out­look pre­view pane. Quick­ly you can see whether it con­flicts with a meet­ing al­ready on your cal­en­dar, and how you can re­spond. All with­out mov­ing from your mail to your cal­en­dar.

9. Works with mul­ti­ple e-mail ac­counts in Out­look

Out­look 2010 sup­ports mul­ti­ple Ex­change ac­counts in one pro­file. This is an op­tion that un­doubt­ed­ly de­light many. Syn­chro­nize all your e-mail ac­counts in Out­look (Hot­mail, Ya­hoo!, Gmail, etc.), so that you are al­ways in­formed and noth­ing es­capes you.

10. Out­look so­cial Con­nec­tor

The Out­look So­cial Con­nec­tor con­nects Mi­crosoft Out­look 2010 to your so­cial net­work­ing plat­forms, both pro­fes­sion­al and per­son­al, for al­ways up­dat­ed sta­tus of ac­tiv­i­ties and ap­point­ments for your con­tacts, if they be­long to your com­pa­ny or your fa­vorite so­cial net­work.

From a new de­sign as­pect to ad­vanced e-mail or­ga­ni­za­tion, search, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and so­cial net­work­ing fea­tures, Out­look 2010 pro­vides you with a first-class ex­pe­ri­ence to keep you pro­duc­tive and in con­tact with your per­son­al net­works and busi­ness.

To learn more about Of­fice 2010 vis­it: http://of­fice.mi­crosoft.com/en-us/