How to Create New Profile in Outlook – A Step by Step Procedure

MS Outlook is an email client comes with a package of Office Suite. There are various application offered with MS Office suite out of which MS Outlook is one. The latest version of Outlook is 2013 and for Mac its Outlook 2011.

It can also be used as a standalone application and smoothly works with Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server that serves the need of multiple users of an organization.

Now the question arises how users can add email accounts or create profile in Outlook in order to use it as their email client. There are precise steps to configure Outlook with the desired email ids i.e. either an Exchange mailbox or any online email clients like Gmail, Yahoo and Rediff Mail etc.

Check Here Steps to Create a New Outlook Profile

1. In Microsoft Windows Pane, Click on Start and the Select Control Panel
   
   
   
2. Click on Users Account and then Select “Mail” Option
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Following Window will pop up, Click on Show Profiles Option and then “Add”
   
   
   
   
   
4. Now, fill profile name as per your need and click on “Ok”
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Now the following window will appear, fill the required details
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. After entering the details like Name, Email ID and password, Click on “Next”
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Following window will appear showing the procedure of creating Outlook profile
   
   
   
8. Once the process is completed, congratulation window will appear, Click on “Finish”
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
9. Below screenshot shows that profile is successfully added in Outlook, now click on “Ok
   
   
   
   
   
   
10. Open your Outlook account and it shows that your Email account is successfully added with Outlook account.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

How to Set up Another Profile in Outlook for New Mailbox

Users can add multiple email accounts in Outlook and can create more than one profile in MS Outlook. Now if you want to add a second profile in Outlook, follow the given steps:

1. Click on Start >> Control Panel >> User Account >> Mail
2. Now Click on Show Profile Options and then Add
   
   
3. A new profile is added now you can view two profiles showing in the given screenshot
   
   
4. From the two options given in the end, click on “Prompt Profile” option and click on “Ok”
   
   
   
5. Now when you will open the Outlook, you will get a prompt window asking for choose desired profile to enter, shown in the below screen