Office 2013 In Depth

Outlook and Email Accounts

Outlook supports different types of email accounts; you can use Outlook as your email client for an Internet email account from your Internet service provider, a web-based email account such as Microsoft’s Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail), or a Microsoft Exchange mail account hosted by an Exchange server on your corporate network. In fact, you can configure Outlook to manage multiple (and different types of) email accounts at the same time.

When you start Outlook for the first time, you are presented with the option to set up your email account. However, as already mentioned, you are not limited to a single email address when you use Outlook. You can easily add email addresses even after you have configured the initial ...