Here, you'll use Outlook to send an e-mail.

Reading this article, you will learn how to send e-mail. This article consists of the following two pages.

Practice: Start Outlook Refer to "Let's start and quit Outlook" for how to start Outlook.

• Let's create a new e-mail

• Types of e-mail formatting

Let's create a new e-mail

Practice: Create a new e-mail Refer to "Let's create a new e-mail" for how to create a new e-mail.

1. In the left Navigation Pane, click Mail, and then click New.

   

   The window for entering a new message is displayed.

2. In the To box, type in the name of the person who you want to send the e-mail to.

   Tip: When I started to type in the e-mail address, text appeared! When you start to type in an e-mail address, previously entered e-mail addresses are displayed. If you have created a "contact" in Outlook, the registered name and e-mail address are both displayed. You can enter the displayed name in the To box by clicking it.

3. Let's type in a title in the Subject box and the body of the message in the message field.

   

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Types of e-mail formatting

In Outlook, you can change the size of the text in the body of the e-mail, change the color of the text, and format the e-mail.
The text formatting is primarily found in Basic Text on the Message tab of the Ribbon.

See the table below for the names and roles of the buttons displayed in the Ribbon. Let's combine them and try to format an e-mail.

Button	Name	Role
	Font	Changes the font.
	Font Size	Changes the size of the text.
	Grow Font	Makes the text larger.
	Shrink Font	Makes the text smaller.
	Bullets	Adds a bullet at the beginning of the text to start a bulleted list.
	Numbering	Adds a number at the beginning of the text to start a numbered list.
	Clear Formatting	Clears all formatting for the selected text, leaving only the plain text.
	Bold	Makes the selected text bold.
	Italic	Italicizes the selected text.
	Underline	Draws a line under the selected text.
	Text Highlight Color	Make text look like it was marked with a highlighter pen.
	Font Color	Changes the text color.
	Align Text Left	Aligns the text to the left.
	Center	Centers the text.
	Align Right	Aligns the text to the right.
	Distributed	Aligns the text to the left and right margins of the page. If necessary, the space between the characters is adjusted.
	Decrease Indent	Decreases the indent level of the paragraph.
	Increase Indent	Increases the indent level of the paragraph.

Tip: A Ribbon button can be selected and not selected Among the buttons used for text formatting, there is the selected (Yellow: ) and the not selected (the same color as the Ribbon: ). "Selected" means that the feature is applied. By the way, if you change the current position of the cursor, the state of the button for that location is reflected.

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