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How to set up and manage your email account in Outlook in Office 365
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Published onSeptember 4, 2019
published onSeptember 4, 2019
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Emailing is one of the core experiences of any business operation. With an Office 365 subscription, you can typically access your email from the Outlook web app, or set up your email account with various email clients across different phones or PCs. One of those clients happens to be the Outlook desktop app, as included with many Office 365 subscriptions.
In this step-by-step guide, we’ll give you a look at how you can set up and manage your email account in the Outlook desktop app. The process is simple and straight forward. In as little as 5 minutes, you can be up and running and sending emails from your computer or laptop, without having to visit the web.
Setup via the File option
Typically, Outlook will greet you with a first-time step-by-step wizard to set up an email account if you’ve never used it before. This is the easiest way to get started with Outlook. However, in some rare cases, the wizard might not appear. In this case, you’ll need to manually set up your email by visiting the file menu. The manual set up process is very similar to the initial setup, and the steps are below.
Once you sign in, Outlook will auto-fetch most of the content from your email account. That will include all of your emails from the inbox, folders, and more. You’re now free to email from the Outlook desktop app!
Managing your new email account in Outlook
With your email account set up in Outlook, you’ll likely now want to know how you can manage it. This just involves a visit to theFile optiononce more. From there you’ll see a drop-down menu listing the names of any accounts you’ve added. You’ll also see the ability to add more accounts. Some other options for managing Outlook accounts are explained below.
The wrap-up and other tips and tricks
As you can see, setting up your email account with the Outlook desktop app as part of Office 365 is easy. You just need to follow a few easy to understand prompts, and then visit the File menu again to manage your account. We have previously explained how you canattach files in Outlook,recall an email, and even given alook at some of our favorite Outlook tips and tricks. Fell free to check it out, and let us know how Outlook is working for you by dropping us a comment below.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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