From the course: Outlook: Efficient Email Management

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From the course: Outlook: Efficient Email Management

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- [Instructor] Let's make sure that you have the version of Outlook that I'm going to be covering in this course because there is more than one product with Outlook in its name. The first Outlook product is simply called Outlook. It's a desktop product that you purchase by itself, but is more frequently purchased or licensed as part of Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Office. There are different desktop versions of Outlook for different platforms, different computers. So we have Outlook, which is also Outlook for Windows and then Outlook for the Mac. This course focuses specifically on the Windows version of Outlook. Although some of the features I cover are also available on Outlook for the Mac. When you install Outlook on your computer, whether or not it's part of an Office 365 subscription, you are installing a desktop version of Outlook. And this is what it looks like. It's an application, like Excel or Word. It has a ribbon at the top. It has icons on the left-hand side. They used to live down here at the bottom. And before we leave, I want you to note that my first email here is an email from Holly Bird. And the subject is "Your arrival to Traverse City". Another possibility is that you're using a product called Outlook on the web, which runs in a browser. It's also part of Office 365. So when you have a license for desktop Outlook, you can also run Outlook on the web. It's a peer for those other Office online applications, Excel online, PowerPoint online, and so on. Outlook on the web looks like this. It's clear that I'm in a browser. I could've started here at Office home and clicked Outlook. So if this is how you start Outlook right here, then you're probably using Outlook on the web, but note no top ribbon. And I can tell I'm logged in to a browser here at the top, but the first message is my same message from Holly Bird. And the reason is this is the same inbox. I'm just looking at it with a different product. And this product, Outlook on the web, doesn't have all of the same tools that Outlook on the desktop has. Outlook on the web has fewer built-in features because it runs in a browser. It can't rely on the engine that is your operating system on your desktop. However, Outlook on the web looks more like Outlook on the desktop every single time it gets updated. You can also use Outlook on the web, this application, with other email services. For example, outlook.com, which is available for free. It's a competitor to Gmail. Or with your live.com or Hotmail email accounts, outlook.live.com. So Outlook on the web is the client for any free email you get. And you can also view those emails in Outlook if you want to set that up. Some of what you'll learn in this course would be relevant to Outlook on the web. But if this is where you get your email every single day here in a browser, the Outlook on the web essential training course in the LinkedIn Learning library would be much more relevant for you. Many of the features that I'm going to show you in this course are not available in a browser. When it comes to the more advanced features for applications like Outlook, they're really desktop application features. And that's why people and companies pay good money to purchase the desktop version of Outlook, which is where we will spend all of the rest of our time in this course.

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