- [Instructor] Before you can use the email application
that comes with Windows and to use some
of the features of the address book and calendar,
you need to have an email account
that you can link to your computer
and this video shows how to do that.
I am not going to show you how
to create a new email account.
I'm assuming you already have an email account
that you can use.
So you should start by going to Windows settings.
So in the start menu I'll open up settings.
On the left side, I'll go to the category for accounts
then to the sub category for email and accounts.
If you have any email accounts already linked,
they would show up on a list here at the top.
And if you sign into your computer
with a Microsoft online account,
it will probably already be here.
Normally my Outlook account would already be on this list,
but I reset that just so we can see what it looks like
if you do not already have an account linked.
To link a new account,
you can just click this add account button
and you've got some options here, but for now,
I'm just going to close this because another option would be
to just open the email application.
So I'll go to the start menu
and the email application is simply called mail.
I have it pinned here so I'll launch that.
If you do not already have any email accounts link
to your computer when you launch this,
you will probably see this screen.
Or if I close this, you might see this screen here.
If you click the add account button here,
we get that same panel that we just saw over
in Windows settings.
So however you get to it,
this is where you can add your account.
Now, if you sign into your computer
with a Microsoft online account,
you might see an option here to just add that right away
or you can choose a different account type from this list,
depending on the email account that you have.
If you have an email account that does not appear
on this list, you could try the option
for other account or advanced setup.
With these options,
it will probably ask for some technical information
like incoming and outgoing mail server addresses
so you may need to check with your email provider
or your tech support or IT department
to get that information.
But for now, I'm just going to set up an account
that does appear on this list.
I'm going to set up a Gmail account or a Google account.
So I'll choose that.
And the normal setup generally consists
of putting in your email address and your password.
So I'll put in my email address here,
then click next
and I'll put in my password.
And then click next here.
For most of these accounts,
that's really all you need to do.
Follow any other prompts that you see.
I'll click allow here.
And in this case, I need to put in my name.
So this is the name that I want to appear
when I send messages to other people.
Then I'll click sign in
And I'm finished here. I'll just click done on that.
So now my Google account is linked with my computer.
Here in the mail application,
I can see that by clicking this gear button down
at the bottom to go into settings for the mail application.
Then I can go to manage accounts
and I can see that my Google account is listed there.
And you can have more than one email account linked.
If you already have one account linked
and you want to link another one,
you can come here to your account settings,
then click add account and you could set up another one.
For now, I'm just going to link my Microsoft account
that's already set up on my computer.
So I can just select that
and the setup will be a lot quicker.
And I'll click done here.
Okay. So now I have two accounts linked here.
Clearly this will let me send and receive email
from those two accounts here in the mail application,
but it also allows me to keep my calendar
and address book synchronized to those accounts as well.
And if we go back over to Windows settings,
I can see that those accounts are here on this list,
ready to be used by the mail,
address book and calendar apps.
And naturally I could add more accounts here as well
by clicking the add account button there.
But now we have the accounts link to my computer,
which we need to start working in the mail,
address, book and calendar applications.