Preparing for Outlook

Outlook is Microsoft's personal information manager and electronic mail (e-mail) software for handling incoming and outgoing e-mail messages.

To use Outlook as your personal information management (PIM) and e-mail tool, you need to be connected to the Internet or a network. Through this connection, you can take full advantage of the e-mail, scheduling, and contact capabilities of Outlook. Before you start Outlook for the first time, you need to know about the different types of connections and e-mail servers you can use with Outlook.

You can use Outlook on a standalone computer or one that is part of a network of computers, also called a local area network (LAN). When you connect your standalone or networked computer to ...

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