Microsoft Office Step by Step (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

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Send and receive email messages

In this chapter

• Create and send messages

• Attach files and Outlook items to messages

• Display messages and message attachments

• Display message participant information

• Respond to messages

Although Microsoft Outlook is an excellent tool for managing your schedule, contact records, and task lists, the primary reason most people use Outlook is to send and receive email messages. Over the past decade, email has become an important method of communication for both business and personal purposes. Outlook provides all the tools you need to send, respond to, organize, find, filter, sort, and otherwise manage email messages for one or more email accounts.

When creating email messages in Outlook, you can format the text, ...