Here’s a look at each item in the submenu (see Advanced Mail-Getting Features for more on schedules):

This command’s submenu lets you send your waiting outgoing mail and download any email waiting for you.

Checks the spelling in your message. Keyboard shortcut: Option-⌘-L.

Opens the Reference Tools and looks up the selected word in the Thesaurus. Keyboard shortcut: Control-Option-⌘-R.

Opens the Reference Tools and looks up the selected word in the Dictionary. Keyboard shortcut: Option-Shift-⌘-R.

Use the Spelling Language submenu to choose your dictionary language (for spelling and grammar checks) from the following choices: Portuguese (Brazil), Danish, Dutch, English (AUS), English (UK), English (US), Finnish, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmal, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Swiss German.

Opens Entourage’s AutoCorrect settings window, where you can set how Entourage automatically attempts to fix your mistakes and add formatting to your messages, exactly as in Microsoft Word (see AutoCorrect).

Opens a list of links to the selected item or message.

Lets you link to an existing Message, Calendar Event, Task, Note, Contact, Group, or File, using the Links dialog box (Linking messages).

Lets you link to a Mail Message, News Message, Calendar Event, Task, Note, Contact, or Group that you haven’t yet created, and gives you a chance to create it in the process.

The Submenu lets you open the Object Palette, the Reference Tools, or the Scrapbook.

Opens the Junk E-Mail Protection window, where you can set the filter’s options (see the box on Using Message Rules).

Opens the Mailing List Manager, where you can set options for dealing with mailing lists.

Lets you set character-set options for the selected newsgroup. Useful if you habituate international newsgroups.

If you have a corporate, educational, or hosted Exchange Server account, then this command lets you set a rule to automatically respond to messages while you’re away on vacation or out of the office. Your correspondents will know not to expect an answer from you until you return. This rule runs from the server, which means you don’t need to keep Entourage running on your computer.

Opens the Rules window, where you can create, edit, or delete message rules (see Setting up message rules).

Opens the Signatures window, where you can create, edit, or delete signatures for your messages.

Opens the Schedules window, where you can create, edit, or delete schedules.

Opens the Account window, where you can create, edit, or delete mail, news, and directory service accounts (see the box on Step 1: Addressing the message).