This chapter explains how you can use Outlook Express, the newsreader program for Outlook and Internet Explorer, to work with newsgroups. If you’ve used Outlook for sending and receiving e-mail, you’ll feel right at home working with newsgroups in Outlook Express. Outlook Express lets you subscribe to newsgroups, download messages, and post messages just as easily as you send and receive e-mail.
NOTE: For information about using Outlook Express for e-mail, see Chapter 25.
Outlook Express looks and works very much like Outlook, with a few minor differences. To launch Outlook Express from Outlook, choose View | Go To and then choose News. When you launch Outlook Express, you see a page very similar to Outlook Today, except instead of displaying frequently used folders, this page displays common tasks (see Figure 22-1). However, most of the time it’s easier just to use the folder pane on the left to switch between newsgroups and folders.
TIP: Outlook Express maintains its own folders, which you can’t access from Outlook.
NOTE: Depending on whether you chose to import settings from a different newsreader when setting up Outlook Express, your screen may look a little different from the one shown in Figure 22-1.