Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Using Multiple Accounts

Although many people still have only one e-mail account, it’s becoming much more common to have several. For example, you might have an e-mail account for work, a personal POP3 account with your ISP, and a Hotmail account. Although versions of Microsoft Outlook prior to Outlook 2002 sometimes made it difficult to use multiple accounts, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 accommodate multiple accounts with ease, all in the same profile, which means that you don’t need to switch profiles as you use different accounts.

Setting up for multiple accounts is easy—just add the accounts, as needed, to your profile. However, working with multiple accounts in a single profile requires a few considerations, as explained here.

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