Microsoft Outlook Creating a Custom Button

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Microsoft Outlook can be a very useful program and if you know the right steps you can also add additional buttons for your favorite websites, so you don’t have to spend time opening your browser and typing the web address. Follow these easy steps and in minutes you will have a link within Outlook that you can click on to open your personal website, Google, or even a program on your computer. This can be a great tool to utilize if you are like me and always working via Email.

First step is the most obvious we need to open Outlook, and I know a lot of you laugh but not everyone possesses advanced computer skills. Once Outlook is open then we need to make sure that all of our tool bars are open and displaying. To do this go to “View” in the tool bar at the top of Outlook, a drop down will open and in here will want to go to the option called Toolbars, now there will be three options in here (standard, advanced, and web) and they will either have a check or not have a check. We want them all to have checks.

Now all the toolbars will be present, next we need to go to the Tools option at the top of Outlook and then go to Customize. A new window will open with three tabs (Toolbars, Commands, and Options). We will need to select the Commands tab.

Now you will need to go to the button labeled Rearrange Commands and click it.

Once again a new window will open with some options. At the top there are two circles one with a dot in it and the other without a dot. These are called radio buttons if you are a computer nerd we will just call them the little white circles. We will need to put the dot into the second little white circle labeled Toolbar, you do this by clicking the little white circle. This should activate the white box next to the little white circle, which we will need to click on and it will “drop down” some options for us to choose. We will want the very last option which is labeled Web, scroll down to it and click on the word Web and it will close the “drop down” options.