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Add emails accounts in Outlook

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You might have registered or applied email accounts from some websites, says Gmail, or get email accounts from your company or organization. Now, you can add these email accounts in the Outlook.

Note: Methods introduced on this page apply to Microsoft Outlook 2019 desktop program in Windows 10. And the instructions may vary significantly or slightly depending on the version of Microsoft Outlook and the Windows environments.

Add an email account when starting Outlook for the first time

If you have not added email accounts in Outlook yet, it will pop out a window to ask you to add new email account when you start the Outlook for the first time.

1. Launch your Outlook.

2. In the popping out window, please type in your email account in the Email address box, and click the Connect button.

steps of adding account in outlookNote: You can click Advanced options to configure email account settings.

3. In the second window, pleas type in the password of the added email account in the Password box, and click the Connect button.

steps of adding account in outlook4. Now another window comes out and tells you that the email account successfully added. Please click the Done button to finish it.

steps of adding account in outlookNotes:
(1) If you want to add another email account, please type the new email account in the Add another email address box, and click the Next button in the above window.
(2) The operations vary significantly or slightly depending on the type of the email account you added.
Now the Outlook is opening with adding the new email account.

Add an email account after starting Outlook

If you have opened the Outlook already, you can continue to add other email accounts too.

1. Click File tab on the Ribbon.

steps of adding account in outlook2. Go ahead to click Info > Add Account. See screenshot:

steps of adding account in outlook3. In the popping out window, please type in your email account in the Email address box, and click the Connect button.

steps of adding account in outlookNote: You can click Advanced options to configure email account settings.

4. In the second window, pleas type in the password of the added email account in the Password box, and click the Connect button.

steps of adding account in outlook5. Now another window comes out and tells you that the email account successfully added. Please click the Done button to finish it.

steps of adding account in outlookNotes:
(1) If you want to add another email account, please type the new email account in the Add another email address box, and click the Next button in the above window.
(2) The operations vary significantly or slightly depending on the type of the email account you added.
Now the Outlook is opening with adding the new email account.

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