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Setting up a meeting with outlook is easy. Select the date you want the meeting to take place on the calendar and start your meeting. 

You will be prompted to chose who to send this meeting offer through the standard To: option.

In outlook, not all junk emails get picked up by the system and some will make it into your inbox. These can be emails that look legitimate, but you know they are junk so you want to automatically move any email you receive from this address to go to your junk folder.

Select the email and press on the junk section then press Block this sender, a pop-up box will appear telling you that the sender has been added to your blocked list.

To send an email to multiple people and also hide who you are sending it to, you would use BCC.

This allows you to add multiple people to the email, but not include their names within the To: option. When creating a new email, go to options and select BCC as an option. From there type all the email addresses within the BCC box to hide the names.

In outlook, you can quickly add your countries public holidays to your calendar saving you the hassle of manually searching and adding these holidays.

Within File > Options > Calendar. Select add holidays and enter your country. Pressing 'Okay' will populate your calendar with all the public folders.

If you are away from your emails for a period of time but need to send an email to someone, you can specify within outlook to delay the email until a certain time has been reached.

When you create a new email, go to the options tab and select 'Delay Delivery'. From here, you can specify how long you want the email to be delayed till. However, you must keep your computer switched on with outlook running to keep the delay request in effect.

If you are struggling to read emails within outlook you can increase the view size by holding down Ctrl and while holding Ctrl use the mouse scroll wheel to quickly set the zoom percentage.

If you want a more precise method of zoom, open the email you want to read and press the Zoom option. This will allow you to manually pick a percentage or use one of the presets.

Categorising your emails has never been easier. Once you have selected the email(s) you want to categorise, press the category button and select a colour. After you have chosen your colour you will be given the choice to name this category and specify a custom colour.

After this, the email will have the category colour and name within the subject header.

You can follow up on an email conversation by either pressing the little icon on the email, the little red flag and by default, this will flag the email for completion by the end of the day. 

Use the follow-up tag on the home tab to specify what day you want to make this email as completed by.

To add a folder to your favourites list, simply right-click your desired folder and press favourite. This will then add the newly favourited folder to the top of your mailbox list under "Favourites"

Under the View section, select Reading Pane. This will give you 3 options, the default is to have the pane on the right. However, you can switch it off if you'd like to and you can also move it to the bottom of outlook.

Each of the different ways will change how you can quickly see your emails.

In outlook, you can type out an email that you may want to send to someone but not have time to finish it, outlook will ask you if you wish to save the email as a draft. This will put the email in your draft folder ready for you to send the email again.

Double click the email and you will open the email, pressing send will try to send the current email to the recipient and move from your drafts to your sent folder.