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Preferences and Settings

Setting Outlook Preferences

Outlook Web Preferences

Please refer to this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Mail-settings-30C69A79-EFC6-42D2-B740-4BF1C1F8A01C .

Outlook PC Preferences

Please refer to this brief tutorial: https://www.lynda.com/Office-tutorials/Set-Outlook-options-preferences/432365/460685-4.html?org=psu.edu .

Outlook Mac Preferences

Please refer to this brief tutorial: https://www.lynda.com/Office-Mac-tutorials/Setting-Outlook-options-preferences/419422/452547-4.html?org=psu.edu .

Focused and Other Inbox versus Traditional Inbox

By default, Outlook sorts your emails into two lists – Focused, and Other. Focused emails are those from people who send you email regularly. Other emails come from listservs and additional, non-personal places. If you prefer to combine your Focused and Other lists into one Inbox, please refer to this article on Turning Off the Focused Inbox.

More on Customizing Outlook

The easiest way to learn how to customize other aspects of Outlook is to go to help and enter your search term – for example, notifications, signature, etc.