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Windows 11 For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition
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Windows 11 For Seniors For Dummies, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition

by Curt Simmons
January 2025
Beginner
352 pages
7h 8m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Emailing Family and Friends

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Sending, receiving, and responding to email

Bullet Sending and receiving files and pictures

Bullet Telling the Outlook app how to handle email

Bullet Setting up an email account

Every day, billions of email messages circle the globe, conveying greetings, news, jokes, even condolences.

Email also provides a way to send and receive attachments, such as documents or photos. Who needs faxes or postcards?

The Outlook app gives you access to email using your Microsoft account. Your Microsoft account can be associated with an email address from any email service provider, including Microsoft’s own Outlook (www.outlook.com), Hotmail (www.hotmail.com), Live (www.live.com), or Xbox (www.xbox.com). You can also use email services such as Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com) and Gmail (www.gmail.com) without having a Microsoft account. You can easily set up these email services to work in the Windows 11 Outlook app, too, and this chapter shows you how.

In this chapter, you use the Outlook app for email. You compose, format, and send email, files, and pictures. You discover ...

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