Get more out of your email with Outlook.com. We"ve streamlined search to make it easier than ever to find what you"re looking for. New features like Files and attachment previews let you your pictures and files without leaving see your inbox. And now you can add emojis and GIFs to your messages.
What's new in Outlook.com
What you'll see in Mail
When you sign in to Outlook.com, you'll go straight to your Inbox.
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Create a new message by selecting new message. |
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The list includes the folders in your mailbox. It may include other folders, such as Favorites and Archive folders. Select to show the folders list, or select to hide it. Right-click an existing folder and select Create new subfolder. |
What you'll see in Calendar
Keep track of appointments, meetings, or any other event from anywhere. Add, edit, or delete events using daily, weekly, or monthly views. For more information about working with calendars in Outlook.com, go to Using the calendar in Outlook.com .
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Create a new event by selecting New event. Then, fill in information ab out the event. |
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Under Calendars, my calendar is the default selection and displays the calendar in Month view. You can move forward or backward through calendar months using the arrows above the calendar. You can add other calendars, for example a holiday calendar, by selecting Discover calendars in the left pane. After you add a new calendar, you can choose whether to display it by selecting or clearing the calendar option. If you decide you don't want the calendar you created, right-click the calendar and select Remove > Delete. |
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You can view more than one calendar at a time, add other calendars and select which to display, and create new calendars. |
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Choose your calendar view: day, workweek, week, or month. To return to today"s date, select Today on the left side of the command bar above the calendar. |
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Select a specific day in the calendar, and any appointment or event scheduled for that day is listed in this area. You can also select a day or time slot and create a new appointment or event. |
What you'll see in People
Use the People page to find, view, create, and edit contacts and contact lists. To learn more about managing contacts in Outlook.com, go to Create, view, and edit contacts and contact lists in Outlook.com .
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Start typing in the search box to find a contact or contact list. |
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Create a new contact by selecting New contact. Create a new contact list by selecting the arrow next to New contact and then New contact list. Add a contact to your Favorites by selecting a contact in the list, and then selecting Add to favorites. When you add someone as a favorite in People, they'll also show up under Favorites in Mail, and the other way around, provided that the contact has an email address. To import contacts from other email services, export contacts, or clean up duplicate contacts, select an option from the Manage menu. |
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Favorites: Shows contacts you"ve added as favorites, either in People or in Mail. All contacts: Shows your contacts from all folders. All contact lists: Shows your contact lists from all folders. Suggested: Suggested contacts, based on messages you"ve sent or received from addresses not in your contacts. Contacts under Folders: This is the default folder for contacts and contact lists. Select new folder to create more folders.  |
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Shows contacts or contact lists depending on what you selected in the left pane. Select a contact or contact list to view details in the contact card on the right. You can also select multiple contacts-for example, to send an email to the selected contacts. For contacts, you can select filter in the upper right to select what to display in the list and how to sort. |
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See or edit information about the contact or contact list. Contact someone directly by selecting start chat or send email. |
Get help with the new Outlook.com
To change your Mail settings so your inbox looks and behaves the way you want it to, see Personalize your new Mail experience in Outlook.com . Also check out the Outlook.com Community forum .
Outlook.com cloud service is a free cloud version of Microsoft's mail service. Outlook.com provides a personal email account and is tightly integrated with Microsoft cloud services.
This new cloud-based email service has several differences from its competitors.
Outlook.com users get an almost unlimited mailbox size for free, so the lack of free space, and hence the possible loss of mail messages, does not threaten users of this service. Gmail, for example, allocates 10 GB of disk space to its users on its server for free.
The maximum size for message attachments in Outlook.com is up to 100MB, and when using OneDrive (SkyDrive) cloud storage, the size of a roaming file will increase to 300MB (via the web interface). In Gmail, the maximum size for message attachments is currently 25MB.
This is good news for video and photo lovers who send their files via email. However, any other files can be sent as an attachment to the letter.
According to Microsoft, the content of personal correspondence and attachments in letters is not analyzed in order to use the information received for advertising purposes (a stone in the garden of Google).
The mail service interface is implemented in modern style Modern UI (Metro), which leaves a good impression. It is fast and convenient to work in it.
Now let's move on to an overview of Outlook.com.
Signing up for Outlook.com
To register for the service, you need to go to the company's website login.live.com. If you already have an account Microsoft entry(Windows Live ID), then you should fill in the appropriate fields, and then click on the "Login" button.
This will open the main Outlook.com mail window. Hotmail, SkyDrive, Xbox LIVE, Windows Live users already have an account.
If you do not have a Microsoft account, then you need to click on the "Sign up" link to get one.
In the next "Microsoft Account" window, you will need to enter your personal information to create a Microsoft account. It is not necessary to enter real personal data, here you can enter such data that will be convenient for you when using the created e-mail box.
You can choose a name for your Outlook.com mailbox. An account can be linked to a number mobile phone to recover your password or to obtain a temporary password for a one-time login to the mail service, for example, from someone else's computer.
After filling in all the data, you need to click on the "Accept" button.
After that, you get to the Outlook.com service page, where you need to click on the "Go to mail" button.
Set up Outlook.com
This is what the main window of the Outlook.com mail service looks like. Microsoft Corporation, recent times, unifies appearance and style of their applications and services.
Services, applications and services are now made in a single modern style, the design uses a tiled interface in the metro style of the operating room Windows systems 8.
If your mail data was transferred to Outlook.com, then you will see your folders and messages, settings and address book will be transferred there automatically.
To create a message, you need to click on the "Create" button located on the top panel, in the upper left corner of the mail service page window. The message will be sent from the mailbox you're signed in to Outlook.com from.
You can customize the text of the message you enter as you wish using a text editor and using the command of the "Options" button for this.
Outlook.com has a new interesting feature - edit messages in HTML format. Letters can be assigned varying degrees importance.
When working with a message, you can "Add the sender to the contact list", perform certain actions with the message.
If your email address frequently receives newsletters, Outlook.com recognizes such messages and sends them to your Junk folder. How to deal with such messages, you must decide for yourself by clicking on such a message with the right mouse button, and selecting a specific action from the context menu.
you can customize color scheme the Outlook.com interface of your choice by clicking on the Options (gear) icon and selecting the desired color from the various colors offered by the service from the pop-up menu.
The Outlook.com mail service is integrated with other Microsoft applications. After clicking on the arrow next to the "Outlook" button, a tile panel appears with tiles to enter other services.
In Outlook.com, you can recover deleted messages even if you have emptied the Trash before.
For more detailed settings Outlook.com, if you are not satisfied with the default cloud service settings, you will need to click on the "Settings" icon (gear) => "More mail options". On the open page, you will need to make the necessary settings for the mail service.
Add contacts to Outlook.com
If you have multiple mailboxes in different email services, you can add these mailboxes to Outlook.com to receive and send messages from other mailboxes using Outlook Online.
To do this, you must click on the "Settings" button (gear) on the panel. In the pop-up menu, select "More mail options".
On the "Settings" page, click on the "Your email accounts" button. On the page "Your email accounts" you need to select one of the proposed items: "Add account send only" or "Add account to send and receive".
After setting up a new account, the added account will be available on the right sidebar in the "Folders" section. Now you can send or receive messages using different email accounts through the Outlook.com service.
You can also import mail and settings from Outlook Express, Windows Mail, or Windows Live Mail.
Further, Microsoft company intends to transition all of its email services to Outlook.com, and support for older services will be discontinued. Users can continue to use addresses with the old endings, but now it is possible to choose a "beautiful or desired" email address with the ending @outlook.com while there is such an opportunity.
You can get a new email address ending with @outlook.com from your postal service @hotmail.com or @live.ru if in "Options" select "switch to Outlook".
You can continue to use email addresses with endings @hotmail.com, @live.com or @msn.com, and also rename your account to an address ending @outlook.com or add an alias.
Create an alias in Outlook.com
Using the Create Alias feature allows you to create multiple mailboxes with different addresses in the same Microsoft account. You can create up to five aliases in one account. Thus, together with the main mailbox, there will be a total of six mailboxes.
You can also create an unlimited number of Microsoft accounts, and create even more aliases in them.
To create an alias, you need to click on the "Settings" button (gear) => "Other mail settings" => "Create an alias for Outlook" on the top panel. After confirming the name and password, you will be signed in to your Microsoft account.
On the Microsoft Account page, you need to select an email address. You can choose from e-mail addresses with endings @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @live.ru. Next, click on the "Create Alias" button.
In the pop-up window "Setting an alternative name", you will need to activate the radio button opposite one of the items: "To an existing folder: Inbox", or "Create a folder: with an alias address".
If you select "Create a folder: with an alias address", messages will be sent to a separate folder, and if you select "To an existing folder: Inbox", messages will be sent to shared folder“Incoming. After selecting the folder, click on the "Finish" button.
After creating a new alias, a confirmation email will be sent to your inbox stating that your alias is ready and you can use it.
Using a pseudonym is convenient for correspondence with different correspondents. In this case, you do not have to use different mailboxes in different mail services. Incoming messages sent to the aliases you create will go to your Outlook.com account.
To send a message, you need to click on the "Create" button and next to your account name, click on the arrow and select the address of the sender of the letter in the pop-up window (the letter can be sent on behalf of one of the aliases).
The only negative is that you can not change the name of the sender of the letter. You can create a Microsoft account using a fictitious name instead of your real name.
How to connect social networks
To communicate with your friends and acquaintances directly through Outlook.com, you will need to add your contacts from these social networks. To do this, click on the arrow next to the "Outlook" button with your mouse pointer, and then click on the "People" tile.
On the "People" page, you can add your contacts from the presented social networks. To add contacts, click on the image social network, and in the pop-up window click on the "Connect" button. After entering and confirming your registration data, your contact list will be imported into the Outlook.com mail service.
To create a new contact on the "People" page, you must click on the "Create" button. On the next page, you can enter the details of your new contact manually by filling in the appropriate fields for this, and then click on the "Save" button.
From the Outlook.com service window, you can communicate with your friends and acquaintances on social networks. After clicking on the icon on the right of the panel, in the form of a smiling man's head, a side panel will open with a list of available contacts from the social network Facebook, or from the MSN network.
In order to start instant messaging, you need to double-click on the name of the interlocutor.
To save the history of received and sent instant messages, you will need to click on the "Settings" icon (gear) on the panel, and then select "Other mail settings" => "Message log" in the context menu. On the "Message Log" page, you should activate the "Save instant messages" item.
OneDrive cloud storage
After clicking on the “OneDrive” tile, the OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) cloud file storage window will open. This cloud storage is provided free of charge to store files, the volume overall size in 5 GB.
From the OneDrive service page window, you can download the OneDrive app to install on your computer. It will be possible to move files between a computer, or other device, and cloud storage via a web interface.
From the OneDrive storage window, after clicking on the "Create" button, you can proceed to use the cloud office Office applications online. When using this application, you can create, open, edit and save directly in the browser window. Microsoft documents office: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoin presentations, OneNote entries.
You can read more about using OneDrive cloud file storage in the article.
Office Online Cloud Apps
You can open received office documents immediately in the mail service window after receiving a message with an attached document.
After opening the received letter, you need to click on the link "Show contents". Next, you need to click on the inscription "Watch on the Internet" on the thumbnail of the received document.
The document will then open in Office Online. If you want to change an open document, then you will need to click on the "Edit" button.
The document will be moved to OneDrive online storage, where it will be opened in Word Online cloud text editor.
AT online versions Word text editor, you can work with open document from this computer, and then continue further work on this document from another computer or mobile device, if on mobile device OneDrive app installed.
To save the received document to your computer, you need to click on the link "Download as a ZIP archive".
Free calls via Skype to Outlook.com
integrated the web version of the program into the Outlook.com mail service. After adding a Skype account, users can make free video calls directly from the Outlook.com mail service window, without launching the program itself, but using the web interface of the mail service.
Article Conclusions
Outlook.com is Microsoft's cloud-based email service with some interesting, rich functionality. Outlook Cloud Mail will good choice for the user.
For many users, Outlook is just an email client that can send and receive emails. However, its possibilities are not limited to this. And today we will talk about how to use Outlook and what other features there are in this application from Microsoft.
Of course, first of all, Outlook is mail client, which provides an advanced set of features for working with mail and managing mailboxes.
For the full operation of the program, you must create an account for mail, after which you can start working with correspondence.
The main window of the program is divided into several areas - the ribbon menu, the list of accounts, the list of letters and the area of the letter itself.
Thus, to view a message, it is enough to select it in the list.
If you double-click on the header of the letter with the left mouse button, a window with the message will open.
From here, various actions are available that are related to the message itself.
From the message window, you can either delete it or place it in the archive. Also, from here you can write a reply or simply forward the message to another recipient.
Using the "File" menu, you can optionally save the message to a separate file or send it to print.
All actions that are available from the message window can also be performed from the main Outlook window. Moreover, they can be applied to a group of letters. To do this, it is enough to highlight necessary letters and click on the button necessary action(for example, delete or forward).
Another handy tool for working with a list of emails is a quick search.
If you have a lot of messages and you need to quickly find what you need, then a quick search will come to the rescue, which is located just above the list.
If you start typing part of the email header into the search string, Outlook will immediately display all the emails that match the search string.
And if you enter “to:” or “from:” in the search bar and then specify the address, then Outlook will display all the letters that were sent or received (depending on the keyword).
In order to create a new message, you need to click on the "Create message" button on the "Home" tab. At the same time, a new message window will open, where you can not only enter the desired text, but also format it as you wish.
All text formatting tools can be found on the Message tab, and to insert various objects such as pictures, tables, or shapes, you can use the toolbox on the Insert tab.
In order to send a file along with the message, you can use the "Attach File" command, which is located on the "Insert" tab.
To specify the addresses of the recipient (or recipients), you can use the built-in address book, which can be accessed by clicking on the "To" button. If the address is missing, then it can be entered manually in the corresponding field.
As soon as the message is ready, it must be sent by clicking on the "Send" button.
In addition to working with mail, Outlook can also be used to plan your to-dos and meetings. To do this, there is a built-in calendar.
To go to the calendar, you need to use the navigation panel (in versions 2013 and higher, the navigation panel is located in the lower left part of the main program window).
From the basic elements, here you can create various events and meetings.
To do this, you can either right-click on the desired cell in the calendar or, by selecting the desired cell, select the desired item in the Home panel.
If you're creating an event or meeting, you can specify a start date and time, an end date and time, a topic for the meeting or event, and a location here. Also, here you can write any accompanying message, for example, an invitation.
You can also invite meeting participants here. To do this, just click on the "Invite participants" button and select the necessary ones by clicking on the "To" button.
Thus, you can not only plan your affairs with using Outlook, but also invite other participants if necessary.
So, we have reviewed the basic methods of working with the MS Outlook application. Of course, these are not all the features that this email client provides. However, even with this minimum, you can quite comfortably work with the program.
This article continues the series of articles on working with Office 2000 and is intended to help the reader get acquainted with Outlook 2000 for the first time.
The volume of information that a manager of a modern company must analyze is growing literally every day, more and more employees of various companies work in information overload mode. Gradually, the problem of insufficiency of information turns into the problem of its insufficient structure both in space and in time. In space - in the sense of "where to quickly get it, so that it is always at hand", and in time in the sense that "so that a reminder or news comes exactly when it is needed."
Therefore, probably, everyone who works in a team and who neglects electronic organizers knows how difficult it is sometimes to quickly find the necessary address, remember the planned event in time, and understand the ever-increasing number of files on the disk. However, the problem is related to the fact that necessary information stored in a variety of sources: in e-mails, on file servers, on the Internet and intranets - and at the same time the user often does not have software product, capable of providing a single interface for accessing all this information.
If all these problems are familiar to you, try turning to Microsoft Outlook 2000.
Do you feel shy before the first meeting? We hope that this article will help you get acquainted with the program. If you're already a seasoned user and you know the basics of previous versions of Outlook, you might want to take a look at the article "Outlook 2000 - more features, fewer buttons" posted on this room magazine under the heading "Software".
Outlook - first acquaintance
Let's start our acquaintance by launching Outlook. You can do this by running the command Programs -> Microsoft Outlook chief windows menu. With this command, you activate the Outlook window ( rice. one).
The program interface is typical for products of the Microsoft Office 2000 package: in the upper part of the window there is a menu bar and a toolbar, on the left there is a shortcut bar, next to which there is a list of folders. Forgive me, sophisticated reader, I still remind you that these folders are not folders hard drive and the information that is stored in them is in special files. As you can see from the figure, Outlook has enough a large number of folders that store various types of information. It is important to note that, despite the abundance of heterogeneous information, the program allows you to organize, search and view records within a single standard interface.
The main features of Outlook boil down to the following:
- Support personal calendar and planning systems.
- Storage personal information, including contacts and tasks.
- Work with e-mail.
- Support for information sharing applications.
The program works with different types data and has a fairly advanced interface, so the review of the capabilities of Outlook 2000 is best done by sequentially considering specific tasks.
Adding a new meeting
Suppose you need to be at the meeting at the airport on April 24 at 20:00 - let's look at how to remind yourself of this event.
Execute the command View -> Go -> Calendar or click on the label Calendar on the left side of the window ( rice. one). As a result, the screen will take next view, as shown in rice. 2, and you will be able to choose between the view in the information window for the week ( rice. 2), per day ( rice. 3), on the working week or for a month rice. 6) using the corresponding buttons on the standard toolbar ( rice. 2).
To the right of the calendar for a week is a calendar for several months ( rice. 2). Select the number you need in this calendar and click on it with the mouse - the program will mark this day in gray and select the field with a breakdown by hours corresponding to this day ( rice. 3). In the Meeting field, working hours are highlighted yellow. Select the column corresponding to the time you want to make an appointment and click on it with the mouse - the color of the field will change. By holding down the mouse button, you can highlight a series of cells, thereby showing the end time of the meeting. Further, in the selected area, you can enter a brief description of the meeting - for example, "meeting at the airport building."
To enter more information about the appointment, double-click the blue-bordered field to display the Appointment panel ( rice. four).
In this window, you can add a more precise end time for the meeting, its topic and location, as well as indicate to your colleagues the degree of your availability during this meeting ( Available, Busy, Doubtful, Out of work). To receive a reminder about a scheduled meeting, you must activate the Notification checkbox and set the reminder time. You can either select it from the menu (for example, in 15 minutes), or set an arbitrary number. At the appointed time (unless you turn off Outlook, of course) you will receive a beep and a blinking notification in the taskbar, clicking on which you will activate the Notification window ( rice. 5). This window allows you to snooze the notification in order to receive a reminder again.
Scheduled meetings are often repetitive. A typical case of recurring meetings is with a lecturer. To create a recurring appointment, double-click the button Repetition located at the top of the window ( rice. four). This will bring up the panel shown in rice. 6.
Suppose you need to teach evening lectures that begin on April 28, take place weekly on Fridays and will continue until the end of the semester, that is, through May 30 inclusive. All these parameters can be easily reflected in the window ( rice. 6).
In the Meeting window, similar to the one shown in rice. four, you can write the topic of the meeting - "lecture" and the place of the lecture, for example "MVMI Institute". Then your monthly plan will automatically schedule lectures until the end of the semester ( rice. 7). If necessary, the computer can remind you of an upcoming lecture.
Editing a meeting plan
If you are in mode Day, then changing the time of your meeting is quite easy with the mouse. Move the cursor to the bottom or top edge of the blue box ( rice. 3), and the cursor will change to a double-headed arrow ( rice. eight). When you move the cursor to the left border, it will take the form of a four-directional arrow.
With the help of a double-headed arrow, you can move the lower and upper time limits of your meeting, including changing the duration of the meeting accordingly. If you do not need to change the duration of the meeting, then you can “drag the meeting in time” with a four-pointed arrow.
If you are working in A week or Month, you can also change the time and day of the meeting by dragging and dropping the entries. Move the cursor to the time of the meeting - it will take the form of a four-directional arrow, press the left mouse button and drag the meeting to the position you need.
In addition to editing your meetings with the mouse, you always (in any calendar modes) have the opportunity to change the numerical values of the time and date of your meeting using the window Meeting. Double-click on the meeting entry - this will bring up the Meeting window ( rice. four), in which you can change the corresponding parameters.
When editing recurring appointments, the system will prompt you with a question ( rice. 9) to specify "whether to open just this copy or the whole series". In the event that you select only one copy, the changes will accordingly apply to that particular copy and will not automatically be made for all recurring appointments.
To delete an appointment, click on the current entry with the mouse and run the command Edit -> Delete. This command can also be selected from the menu that opens after you move the cursor to the required entry and click the right mouse button. For lovers of "hot" keys, we recommend a combination
Storing a list of addresses
There are many traditional ways to store information about your contacts: in the form notebooks, business card holders, alphabetical file cabinets, etc., however, when there are a lot of addresses, it is extremely difficult to quickly find the right one. Outlook organizes stored information in such a way that not only helps you quickly find the necessary contact, but also simplifies communication with this addressee.
To create a list of addresses, click on the label Contacts (rice. one) or run the command View -> Go -> Contacts. As a result, the Outlook window will look as shown in rice. ten.
In order to add a new contact, double-click on the field free from cards, which will lead to the appearance of the panel Contact (rice. eleven). This panel can also be activated by executing the command Action -> Create Contact or by pressing hotkeys
In all likelihood, the very names of the first five ways of presenting information do not leave the reader in doubt what they are, so we will comment only on the last two. Presentation of information By category shows entries according to certain categories, which can be selected from a suggested list or assigned by the user. For example, Cases, Friends, Clients etc.
Presentation of records By the mark "For execution" is associated with the concept of scheduling the execution of tasks. The concepts of "categories" and "task scheduling" will be described in more detail below.
Setting categories for contacts
Click on the icon Organize, which is located on the toolbar and looks like stacked yellow checkers. This will open a window Setting up the Contacts folder, a fragment of which is shown in rice. 13.
In this window, you can select one of the categories offered in the drop-down menu, or enter your own. Let's say you're creating a new category called "Friends". Enter the name of the new category in the field Create a new category with the name and click on the button Create. The name of your new category will appear in the top box instead of the category Important clients shown on rice. 13.
Now you can select from the list of your contacts those that will belong to the category Friends. (You can select multiple contacts by holding down the ctrl.) Then click on the button Add. To list the newly created category, run the command View -> Current View -> By Category, resulting in the categories you specify. Select a category Friends and to view its contents, click on the plus sign - you will see a list of categories, for example, as shown in View -> Current View -> Edit Current View), you can set more detailed information about the task, such as importance, status, degree of completion etc. You can also add the above parameters to an already scheduled meeting; to do this, double-click on the text entry of the next task on the panel ( rice. eighteen), which will also bring up a window ( rice. 19) with partially filled fields. Using the panel tools ( rice. eighteen, ), you can create a list of tasks, for example, such as shown in rice. twenty.
Outlook offers a variety of ways to present your task list. To select the option that is most preferable for you, it is necessary (while in the window Tasks) execute command View -> Current View, which will expand the list of available views. This list includes presentation options with intuitive names.
Choose the one that allows you to better navigate your to-do list. Some users find it convenient to present cases on a timeline. As an example on rice. 21 presented window element Tasks with current view Timeline for tasks.
The features of Outlook are far from exhausted by the above; We will continue our acquaintance with this program in the next article of our series.
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