Microsoft's Outlook program is an incredibly powerful email and personal information management program. But you can't take advantage of its power unless you connect it to an email account. In the office, your copy of Outlook is probably connected to Microsoft Exchange. To use it at home, you will have to find an email account for Outlook to work with.
While you potentially have hundreds of options for an account to use with Outlook, not all free accounts are appropriate for one reason or another. The leading choice for many individuals is to link Outlook to a complimentary Gmail account from Google. Once you have a Gmail account, it just takes a couple of minutes to connect it to Outlook.
Why select Gmail instead of some other service? Accessibility and money are two very good reasons. Some webmail services only work with their own web page, and block access by programs like Outlook. Other services let you connect to your account using Outlook, but make you pay for the privilege.
These two factors rule out many of the possibilities. If you rule out services like those above, Gmail is clearly the best choice. And when you choose to use Gmail, you get several key additional benefits.
One of the biggest benefits is the IMAP connection you can use to tie the two together. With an IMAP connection, you can work with your email both in Outlook and in your web browser. The way IMAP works, it ensure that your email is synchronized and identical in both places.
Gmail accounts are given huge amounts of storage space on computers owned by Google. With the ever-increasing amount of email we all get, and the ever-increasing size of files, this is very welcome.
It takes only minutes to sign up for a Gmail account, if you don't have one, or simply want another one. After that, this is child's play. That's because Outlook's Auto Account Setup wizard can make the connection for you.
By now it should be clear why Gmail is a great choice if you need an email account to use with Outlook.
While you potentially have hundreds of options for an account to use with Outlook, not all free accounts are appropriate for one reason or another. The leading choice for many individuals is to link Outlook to a complimentary Gmail account from Google. Once you have a Gmail account, it just takes a couple of minutes to connect it to Outlook.
Why select Gmail instead of some other service? Accessibility and money are two very good reasons. Some webmail services only work with their own web page, and block access by programs like Outlook. Other services let you connect to your account using Outlook, but make you pay for the privilege.
These two factors rule out many of the possibilities. If you rule out services like those above, Gmail is clearly the best choice. And when you choose to use Gmail, you get several key additional benefits.
One of the biggest benefits is the IMAP connection you can use to tie the two together. With an IMAP connection, you can work with your email both in Outlook and in your web browser. The way IMAP works, it ensure that your email is synchronized and identical in both places.
Gmail accounts are given huge amounts of storage space on computers owned by Google. With the ever-increasing amount of email we all get, and the ever-increasing size of files, this is very welcome.
It takes only minutes to sign up for a Gmail account, if you don't have one, or simply want another one. After that, this is child's play. That's because Outlook's Auto Account Setup wizard can make the connection for you.
By now it should be clear why Gmail is a great choice if you need an email account to use with Outlook.
