Microsoft Outlook Tutorial for Beginners

About this video

Elizabeth guides a beginner tour of the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook, starting with its layout: left sidebar for Mail, Calendar, People and Tasks, middle folder/inbox pane, reading pane, and the customizable ribbon at the top. She covers composing email with To, CC and BCC, subject and body, attachments from the computer or OneDrive, formatting and hyperlinks, and creating a signature in Settings > Signatures that can be applied to new messages but omitted on replies. She then shows reply, reply all and forward, suggested replies, creating folders and subfolders with drag-and-drop organization and colors, and the Focused vs Other inbox sorting which can be turned off in View Settings. The tutorial continues with Calendar views, creating events with recurrence, all-day status, location, Teams toggle, free/busy and categories, multiple and shared calendars, and dragging an email onto the Calendar icon to create an invite. Finally she covers People contacts and importing from another service, Tasks in To Do and My Day, flagging and pinning emails for follow-up, customizing the ribbon, creating Rules to auto-file or mark messages, and the Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut for a new email.

Key takeaways

• CC includes a visible secondary recipient while BCC hides that recipient’s address from other recipients
• Signatures are created in Settings and can be set separately for new messages versus replies/forwards
• Focused Inbox sorts mail Outlook judges important into Focused and the rest into Other, and this sorting can be disabled in View Settings
• Dragging an email onto the Calendar icon creates a meeting invite pre-filled with the email’s recipients and content
• Rules can automatically move messages from a sender to a folder or mark messages containing specific words as high importance

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