With no fewer than 400 million subscribers, Microsoft's Outlook email service dominates the email landscape. And for good reason! Its numerous features, excellent security level, and seamless integration into the Microsoft 365 ecosystem are certainly appealing.
Would you like to enjoy all these benefits too? That's great; today, we will explain step-by-step how to create an Outlook email account. You'll see, it's not rocket science!
Creating a new email address may seem daunting at first, especially since the creation process varies by email service. In truth, creating an email address can be broken down into 5 simple steps:
Choose your email service, paying attention to the features offered, ease of use, and security level.
Choose your email address. For a personal address, a free domain name is automatically assigned. For a professional address, it may be worth purchasing your own domain name for consistent and impactful communication.
Set your password, preferably consisting of uppercase, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. Generally, the email service will indicate the security level of the password you choose.
Enter your personal information, such as your first name, last name, and date of birth.
For a professional email address, set up your email by defining some settings like sending and receiving options. This is also the time to create your Outlook email signature, for a professional communication style that stands out!
Note that the order of these steps may not be the same across different email services. Once this process is complete (usually in just a few minutes), your email address is ready to be used!
Have you chosen Outlook? Here's how to create your email account!
To create a personal email address for daily use, follow these steps:
You can now use your common Outlook email address.
To create a professional email address with Outlook, the steps are a bit more complex. Don't worry: simply follow this guide, and the process will be (almost) automatic.
You need to:
Your Outlook professional email address is now ready to use!
Would you like to make your life easier by adding an Outlook email account directly to your computer? Here’s how to do it!
To add an Outlook account or email address to your PC, you need to complete the following 3 steps:
In your Outlook app for Windows, click on File then Add Account.
Enter the email address of the account you want to add, then click on Connect.
Enter your password again if prompted, then select Ok and click on Finish.
Your Outlook email address is now accessible and usable directly from your PC! If you're a professional, don't forget to configure an email signature, a powerful ally for your company's image. Here are some Outlook signature templates to give you ideas!
Mac users, don’t worry: you too can add your Outlook email address to your Macbook!
To do so:
Wondering how to get the Outlook email service for free?
If you want to upgrade, the various paid versions of Outlook (personal and business) give you access to more advanced features. You will then benefit from enhanced data protection and useful management tools, such as a writing assistant or collaborative workspaces.
In both free and paid versions, you can personalize your business communication by creating your own Outlook 365 signature.
Now you know how to create a personal or professional Outlook email account. In the latter case, we recommend you consider adding an email signature, which will contribute to a brilliant communication style! To get started, discover the best email signature tools.
Yes, with the 'Campaigns' offer, it is possible to track the number of clicks on the email signatures of all your employees in the 'Statistics' area of the platform.
You can then access a detailed or global view of the number of clicks on the email signatures of each employee. You can use the search option to target a specific signature or a given period. Finally, you have the possibility to export all statistics to an Excel document.
If you launch campaigns with banners inserted in your email signatures, you can also access their performance via this same space.
With Letsignit, you can easily add social network icons in your collaborators' email signatures and link to your company pages. Also, our "attributes" feature allows you to manage personalized URLs for each of your collaborators such as their individual LinkedIn profile.
And that's not all: you can add links to an appointment-setting application, allow your customers to leave reviews easily, and integrate our 'Chat on Teams' widget to let anyone start a discussion via Microsoft Teams chat.
It’s up to you! As an administrator of the Letsignit platform, you choose whether or not to grant modification rights to your employees. These permissions are managed on an attribute-by-attribute basis, which means that you can decide to allow the employee to change their phone number, but not the address of your premises, for example.
This feature applies to all attributes in your directory, including custom attributes created on Letsignit. When your employees change one or more attributes, your directory is obviously not affected.
It often happens that employees make their email signature their own: custom format, bad fonts, colors inconsistent with the brand standards... all of this has an impact on your brand!
A consistent visual identity is considered authentic and outperforms a perceived weak one by 20%. And, your customers are 2.4 times more likely to buy your products.
With Letsignit, take back control over your brand identity by standardizing all your email signatures. Our tool has many features that allow you to customize your signatures by department, by audience or by subsidiary. Not to mention the possibility of carrying out campaigns within your email signatures thanks to our Campaign offer.
What is the user experience like for our employees?
In both cases:
In short, they have autonomy in their email signature, but you keep control on the field, signatures, and banners they can edit or use.
With our "multi-signature" feature, your employees can benefit from multiple email signatures. No technical manipulation is required. Thanks to our Add-in for Outlook or the desktop app, they can change their email signatures as they wish with just a few clicks.
Regarding the creation of email signatures, you can make several variations such as:
Everything has been thought of to go further in the personalization process based on the recipient of your emails.
If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.
As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:
As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.
If sending emails has an impact, non-optimized email signatures also have an impact. An unsuitable format or an image that is too heavy considerably increases the size of your signatures... and therefore, your emails.
As a responsible economic actor, we contribute to reducing our CO2 emissions and those of our customers in several ways:
As we are increasingly involved in sustainability initiatives, our priority in 2023 is to develop even more green IT functionality.
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