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Adding email accounts to Outlook
I've discovered, somewhat belatedly, that in order to add an Outlook email address to Desktop Outlook you must be logged into the account you are trying to add. I assume this is because the Outlook interface no longer asks for the account password it 'gets' the password from the logged in account. All very confusing !!
VERY important that you retain the password used when the Outlook email account is created. This 'solution' was not provided by two MS Technicians yesterday who didn't understand that the 'password' could no longer be entered via the 'Add Account' interface. WHY oh WHY do they change things like this ??
I've discovered, somewhat belatedly, that in order to add an Outlook email address to Desktop Outlook you must be logged into the account you are trying to add. I assume this is because the Outlook interface no longer asks for the account password it 'gets' the password from the logged in account. All very confusing !!
VERY important that you retain the password used when the Outlook email account is created. This 'solution' was not provided by two MS Technicians yesterday who didn't understand that the 'password' could no longer be entered via the 'Add Account' interface. WHY oh WHY do they change things like this ??
I'll switch to using my Gmail account. I'm done with MS.
Dean