Office 2007 Bible

Modifying Account Settings

If you should need to change your account settings, the procedure is similar to setting up the account in the first place. Choose Tools Account Settings to display the Account Settings dialog box, and make sure that the E-Mail tab is displayed. Select the account of interest (necessary only if you have more than one) and then click the Change button. You are taken through one or more dialog boxes where you can view and change the settings for this account. The settings depend on the type of account and are explained earlier in this chapter in the section on setting up e-mail accounts.

You can take several other actions with e-mail accounts in the Account Settings dialog box, as follows:

• Repair: Outlook tries to connect to your e-mail provider and refresh your account settings. This is the first step to try if an e-mail account has suddenly stopped working.

• Remove: Deletes the account.

• Set as Default: If you have two or more e-mail accounts, this option makes the selected account the default.

What exactly is the default e-mail account? It’s the account that is used to send e-mail messages that you create from scratch. When you create an e-mail message by replying to a message you have received, it is sent using the account that the “reply to” message was received through. Note, however, that when you are composing an e-mail message, you can always change ...