I
use Outlook for my email on a Windows computer, and I use it for both home and
work emails. When I’m working, I really don’t want to see (or be distracted by)
my home emails. When I’m done working, I only want to see my home emails. Is
there some way to completely separate my home and work emails?
In order to separate your home and
work emails, one solution would be to use Outlook only for work (or home)
emails, and use another application or a browser, for the emails you want to
segregate. But, of course, that wasn’t your question—you’d like to use Outlook
for both. And there’s no reason why you can’t!
Outlook provides the capability of
creating multiple separate profiles, where each profile can retrieve email from
one or more different email accounts. Therefore, you could set up one Outlook
profile for your work email account, and a separate Outlook profile for your
home email account. Right now, if you’re getting both work and home emails at
the same time, you’ve set up a single profile that includes both email
accounts—by default, when you set up Outlook for the first time, you create a
default profile, although that part of the setup process isn’t explicitly
explained as you set things up. The default profile is called, as you might
guess, Default, but you can create profiles with any name you like, and you can
choose which profile to load as you start Outlook.
The trick, then, is to create two
new Outlook profiles: One for work, and one for home. To do this, start the
Control Panel application in Windows, and find the Mail applet. (An “applet” is
one of the application installed to run from within Control Panel. Really.) In
the Mail applet, select the option to add a new profile, and follow the prompts
to set up one account. When you’re done, use the Mail applet to create the
second profile. Make sure to select the option to have Outlook prompt for a
profile when it starts up—otherwise, you won’t get the option to select the
active profile.
For more information about working
with Outlook profiles, check out this useful Microsoft support article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918.
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