Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 is a personal information manager developed by Microsoft. It is a part of Microsoft Office 2007 and is available both as a separate application as well as a part of Microsoft Office 2007.

It is mainly used as an e-mail application for sending and receiving e-mails. It also consists of a Calendar, Task Manager, Contact Manager, Note taking and many more. This section contains tips and tricks for using Outlook effectively.

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You can maintain your distribution lists in Contacts in Microsoft Outlook through categories and grouping or filters. However, since Outlook support distribution lists in contacts folders, this reason has become less important.

Many of the companies provide Microsoft product support and also provide outlook support. Following are the steps on how to set up Microsoft Outlook:

Step 1: Firstly, you need to find the type of e-mail account for each of your e-mail accounts like (POP3, IMAP or HTTP). You should also know the name of the incoming mail server. For example: mail.isp.com and the name of the outgoing or SMTP mail server such as smtp.isp.com. You can get all this information in the service provider FAQ file or by e-mailing the provider.

Step 2: Now, start Outlook Express and select Accounts from the Tools menu. Now, click on the Mail tab.

Step 3: Click 'Add' which is on the right side of the box and choose 'Mail'. The Internet Connection Wizard will appear.

Step 4: Type the display name for the account and click 'Next'.

Step 5: Click the top radio button if you already have the new account. Write the name of the account and click 'Next'.

Step 6: Type the mail server information which you collected in the first step and click 'Next'.

Step 7: Type the user name as it shows on the account. For example, the account name of feedback@123.com is 'feedback.'

Step 8: Type the password to access the account. You can contact the e-mail service provider if you don't remember the password. If you don't want Outlook to prompt you for the password each time then you can also check the 'Remember Password' box.

Step 09: Click 'Finish'. You can edit account properties by clicking on the name and selecting 'Properties' from the list which appears on the right.