KATHERINE BOEHRET has a great article in today's Wall Street Journal column, The Mossberg  Solution:

If you have a job, chances are you use Microsoft Outlook.

But are you using it to your best advantage?

Despite the popularity of Microsoft Outlook, several of its functions aren't noticeable unless you dig around in menus or try out keystroke shortcuts. Many of these tricks can be found by reading a user manual, but users would rather be spending their time in Outlook responding to or writing emails.

In last week's column I reviewed a program called Postbox, which displays email and its contents in unique ways. In that review I mentioned that Outlook, too, has extra functions, but that these aren't always as obvious as they should be. Below, I've compiled a list of what I consider to be some of Outlook's lesser-known talents.

Read the rest of the article on the WSJ web site <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203917304574414972562141470.html">here</a>.