Outlook is Microsoft’s email service which has a free version and a paid version within the Office office suite. However, Outlook applications for both mobile devices and Windows 10 computers are completely free and can be used by all types of email account users. This will allow you to take advantage of features of the Outlook apps such as incoming email notifications.
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The Outlook app for Windows 10, has numerous functions, among which we can highlight the possibility of configuring notifications to be alerted when we receive a specific email that we are safely waiting for.
Outlook users who have the official application for Windows 10 will have several different options in which to be notified. As they are:
– Sound reproduction.
– Momentarily change the mouse pointer.
– Show an envelope icon on the taskbar
– Show a desktop alert even with the possibility of a preview of the message.
You can activate all types of notifications at the same time, any combination of them or just one of them. However, as is evident, the more types of notifications you activate, the more difficult it will be that we do not know of the arrival of an email to our Outlook inbox.
That said, below, we show you step by step how to activate the different notifications in Outlook when we receive an email message in our inbox:
How to activate and customize message arrival alerts in the Outlook app for Windows 10.
1. Open your Outlook application.
2. When the program interface is displayed, you should go to the option: File
3. Once in the new screen you will have to click on: Options
4. This will automatically open a new configuration window in which you will have to go to the tab: Mail.
5. In the main part of this section you will have to locate the section: Arrival of the Message.
6. Under this section, you will find all the notification options which you can individually activate each one of them just by checking or unchecking the boxes next to them.
7. Finally, to save the settings just made, you will only have to click on the button: Accept
From this moment when you receive an email in the inbox of your Outlook app for Windows 10, you will automatically see one or more alerts in the form of a notification that will be received on your computer to make sure you are aware of that the message has reached your tray.
