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Set up your accounts
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Learn how to configure POP and IMAP e-mail accounts from e-mail service providers such as AOL, Gmail, MobileMe, and Windows Live Hotmail. |
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Connect to the Microsoft Exchange account provided by your company or organization. |
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Import a .pst file into Outlook for Mac from Outlook for Windows |
Watch this short overview on how to import an Outlook for Windows Data File (.pst). |
Work with mail, calendar, and address book
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Make your e-mail messages more interesting by including a picture as part of the message. |
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Add a signature manually or automatically to each message that you send. |
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Learn the difference between a meeting and an appointment and how to create each on your calendar. |
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Learn how to create a distribution list so that you can send a message to everyone in a group without typing each recipient's address. |
Organize and search for items
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Create additional folders to organize your messages, contacts, tasks, and notes. |
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Quickly search the current folder, and expand the search to include additional folders or item types. |
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Create a rule to automatically sort incoming messages into folders. |
Synchronize and share
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Open a Microsoft Exchange calendar, address book, or e-mail folder that you have permission to open. |
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Give a delegate access to and set permissions on your Microsoft Exchange calendar, inbox, and address book. |
Manage junk e-mail, security, and privacy
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Adjust the junk e-mail filter to classify more or fewer messages as "junk." |
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Make your messages more secure by using digital signatures and encryption. |
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Use Information Rights Management (IRM) to restrict permission to a message, for example, prevent recipients from forwarding the message. |
Troubleshooting
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Explore common causes and solutions for e-mail issues. |
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Learn how to use the Microsoft Database Utility to rebuild a damaged Office database. |
Explore other useful resources
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Make Outlook your default application for e-mail, calendar, and contacts |
Set up Outlook to open automatically when you click a link in a document or on a Web page to send e-mail (also known as a "mailto" link). |
See the full list of keyboard shortcuts, organized into logical categories. |
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Learn the main elements of the Outlook window and how to customize each one. |