How to Set Up Microsoft's Outlook Mail Program

I recently purchased Microsoft's Outlook mail program and was very happy with my new mail program. It's easy to set up, use and gets rid of lots of that rotten spam we all hate. I'll help you set up your Outlook for a regular POP3 mail account and tell of some great features and parts of the program.

Installing the program is easy, you just put in the disc and after some general questions and inserting the CD key to show you purchased a legal copy of Outlook you just click on the Outlook shortcut that you should have created during setup. Or you can go to your Start menu and find Outlook and click on the link there. When the program opens it will detect that you have no accounts setup and will ask if you want to do that.

First you should go to the update section of the Microsoft's website and update your Office product. This should be done before you do anything with the program. I also recommend you update Windows and do a disc defragment to ensure a properly running system while you're at it. You can see my other article "How to Load New Programs on your computer" for help.

After you update Outlook open it up and you should be taken to a wizard to setup a new account. You can get to the one page fill in form by clicking on Tools, Email Accounts and then following the two step Wizard, the second step asks you what kind of mail account you are setting up and then it goes to the one page where you type in your information. Name, Email address, User Name and Password and settings from your Internet Service Provider or mail account company. You need to have the account already setup with a company to use Outlook, with the address of your account and the two incoming and outgoing mail servers to be able to use the program. Or if you are setting up another kind of account you need to have the information handy from your company with the different settings like the server or mail service provider information.