This video is gonna take you through how to create an outlook.com email address and add it to your Outlook profile. The first thing you need to do is create your email address. So go to outlook.live.com and then select Create free account.

Okay. Once you do that, it'll ask you for an email address and make your own one up. If it's already been used, it'll tell you to change it and then add a password and move on from there. Very, very quick to set up, just like you were setting up a Gmail account or something else. Very, very straightforward. Okay? And once you've set it up, make sure you obviously remember the password then you're now able to add it to your Outlook profile in Microsoft Office. I will warn you though, you must have a Microsoft 365 account in order to use the Outlook application. You can use the email address free of charge using this website that we're already on. However, if you want to add it to your Outlook profile and get all the benefits of Outlook then you need to have a Microsoft 365 account. Okay, so let's open up Office now. So start menu, select the Office applications and go to Outlook.

Takes a few seconds to open. Right now, I've opened Outlook app and it's gone straight into the application. And the reason it's done that is because I've got some email addresses that have already been set up and added to my profile. If you haven't used Outlook before, it may just have a login box that asks you for an email address. If, however, you have already got some email addresses in your Outlook profile, you may want to add a new one, which you may already know how to do. But this is how you do it anyway, simply go to file, add account. And this brings up the login box. So again, those of you who have not used Outlook before, we'll probably see something like this when you open up Outlook for the first time. Okay, what we're going to do then we're going to type in the email address that we've just set up. So this was just outlook.com. Okay? So colindoolingfe@outlook.com. You type in your email address, not mine and then hit Connect. Now, this next bit will take a few seconds. So, I may pause my video. It's, oh, it's done it really, really quickly. Fantastic. So it says, account successfully added. You need to restart Outlook for these changes to take effect. Okay? So just do that. Hit Done. Okay, make sure Outlook has actually shut down. There's another version open there so I'm gonna close that one as well. And I'm just going to hit the Start menu again and then hit Outlook. Now this time it's gonna take a bit longer to load, okay? 'Cause it's got to link to your email address. So it's taking a bit longer. It's probably doing the right thing. Don't think, "Oh, there's an error. Actually think, Oh, it's obviously connecting to my email address." So I'm gonna pause the video now while it does all the setup and I'll come back once it's loaded. Okay, we're back in the room and you'll see at the bottom of my profiles, you'll see that the colindoolingfe@outlook.com profile is now there. Now it's not all there yet, okay? If I click on this, you'll see it's still going through some of the setup, okay? So we've gotta wait for the inbox and so on to sort itself out. Now, straight away, it's gonna ask me to sign in. Okay? Now, you may have already done this as part of your login. It may have asked you for the password then, okay but 'cause it hasn't done for me, I need to actually sign in. Otherwise, it's not going to allow me to do anything else. So I'm gonna sign it, sign in now, okay.

And then I'll be able to access everything. Okay. Once you've signed it, it's gonna ask you some things like for your phone number, location, so it can send you verification code. So, I've signed in onto the Outlook live account now. Then I can go back to Outlook and I can look at my Outlook inbox. Now you've got two inboxes here. You've got a focused inbox and an other inbox. Once you, if you go to the other inbox, you should see something that says "Welcome to your new Outlook.com account." And that means you're ready to go. So I look forward to seeing you again in the next videos where we're gonna go through all the features or a lot of the features anyway, in Outlook.