Make a note

There are at least three ways to create a note in Outlook:

• Click the Notes icon in the Outlook Bar, and then click the New Note button: When you go to the Notes module first, you can see your note appear on the list of notes when you finish. Otherwise, your note seems to disappear into thin air (but it doesn't). Outlook automatically puts your note in the Notes module unless you make a special effort to send it someplace else.

• Choose File, New, Note: The blank Note box appears, and you type what you want to note. Then click Close.

• Press Ctrl + Shift + N: This is the quickest way to make a note appear in any Outlook module. You don't see your note listed in other modules, but you can jot down your thought quickly.

You can leave a note (or more than one note) open for a long time and keep switching to it on the Windows task bar to add comments. You can even have an email message and a note open at the same time and drag text from one to another.

In Eudora Ctrl + Shift + N starts a New Message, and there is no Notes icon. Clicking on File, New file... will open the notepad and add it to the Eudora taskbar. You can switch between messages and the notepad by clicking on the Eudora taskbar and you can cut and paste between notes and messages. If you want to turn a note you have written, cutting and pasting is the quickest method. However, you can save the notes in plain text, HTML or RTF format. Single plain text and HTML files can be inserted into a blank message by simply attaching them. See Elegant email for a full explanation of what is involved.