Outlook Quick Tips

Get quick answers to your most urgent Outlook questions. These one-minute tutorials help you work faster and smarter with Outlook, the ubiquitous email and calendar app.

Get quick answers to your most urgent Outlook questions. These short tutorials help users work faster and smarter with Outlook, Microsoft's ubiquitous email and calendar app. Authors Jess Stratton, Garrick Chow, and Nick Brazzi provide on-the-spot solutions for the most common issues—in one- to two-minute snippets that are easy to fit into your workday. Learn how to set up an out-of-office message, work with reminders, subscribe to RSS feeds, change the default font in email messages, share Outlook calendars with others, recover lost Outlook data files, and more.

Welcome

• Introduction

1. Working with Email

• Create and add a signature to messages
• Find and replace text in an email
• Add a table to a message
• Download photos from safe senders in Outlook
• Forward and redirect email automatically
• Send automatic out of office replies
• Recall or replace an email message
• Request read receipts and delivery notifications
• Add a Gmail account to Outlook
• Delete redundant messages with Conversation Cleanup

2. Staying Organized in Outlook

• Add folders and subfolders
• Add folders to favorites
• Find a message or item in Outlook with instant search
• Sort messages using categories
• Manage your to-do list in Outlook
• Create and edit a contact group or distribution list
• Use reminders in Outlook
• Share a calendar with others
• Access an Office 365 Group calendar in Outlook
• Subscribe to your Google calendar in Outlook
• Get to appointments on time
• Stay on top of your travel itineraries with Outlook

3. Customizing Outlook

• Change the default font or text color for email messages
• Change email account settings
• Set new Outlook message alert pop-ups
• View calendars side-by-side or as an overlay
• Switch from working offline to online
• Find where your Outlook data files are located
• Work with the Navigation bar

4. Working with Outlook.com

• Add other email accounts to Outlook.com
• Turn off ads in Outlook.com
• Sign in to Outlook on the web for business