Hi Jim,
How about some of this:
Part 8: Favorite new Outlook 2007 features
Alternatively, if you go to the Tools menu, and start playing around with the Out of Office Assistant, and the Rules and Alerts menu items, you can always delete any rules you create, or turn off the out-of-office messages if you think you've made a cock-up. Playing around's sometimes the best way of learning a product
Cheers,
Mike.