When you delete an item from your inbox in Outlook.com, it gets moved to the Deleted Items folder. That item will remain in that location for a short period of time, after which it will be permanently deleted. This gives you the ability to restore a message if you decide later that you want to […]

When you view your Outlook.com emails in a Web browser, you have probably noticed a small circle to the left of the sender’s name. Sometimes that circle contains a picture, while other times it contains initials. While this additional splash of color can break up the monotony of the display, you may find it distracting […]

With the default settings in Outlook.com email, a preview of a linked Web page is shown whenever you add a hyperlink to an email that you are composing, or when you receive an email that has linked text. While this can be helpful and something that some people like to use, you might prefer to […]

When you write emails to some of your contacts, situations may arise where you want to include someone on the email, but you don’t want to let other people know that they are receiving the email, too. This is the type of situation that the BCC field was made for. However, you may notice that […]

People have different feelings and preferences when it comes to notifications. Some people want to get all the notifications they can, and the more intrusive the notification is, the better. Others, however, don’t want to receive any notifications, and prefer to check their apps and accounts on their own terms. If you are someone that […]

Read receipts are something that many email providers will let you include when you send an email to someone. If the receiver chooses to send a read receipt, then the sender will know that the person has read the email. Some people like to use this if they send an important email and want to […]

The Outlook desktop application has been popular for businesses and residential users for years because of how great the interface is, and how many options you have for managing your email account. Microsoft’s Outlook.com free email service seeks to replicate much of what has made the Outlook desktop application popular, and one of the biggest […]

When you are participating in an email chain with other people, there will inevitably be a number of messages that contain bits of information that are important to the conversation. Depending on how long this conversation has been going on for, it’s possible that the individual emails in the conversation could be separated by many […]

Managing emails can be difficult when you receive a lot of promotional and junk emails in your inbox. Many email providers are switching to an inbox management system that will automatically categorize these emails into different sections. For example, Gmail uses one that will separate emails into different tabs. Outlook.com takes a slightly different approach […]