Outlook 2013. If you’re new to Outlook 2013, this free guide offers useful tips to help you find your way around. Need a guide for a different Office product? Download other Office 2013 Quick Start Guides.

Get started. Your first action is to set up your Outlook account. After that, you’ll be ready to start receiving and sending email, use the calendar, create contacts, and work with Outlook tasks. Setup is automatic if you used an earlier version of Outlook on the same computer.

In Outlook 2013 or Outlook 2016, choose File. Choose Account Settings > Account Settings. On the Email tab, choose your account (profile), and then choose Repair. Note: The Repair option isn't available if you're using Outlook 2016 to connect to an Exchange account.

This video gives you a quick overview of the major changes in Outlook 2013. Signatures. Start a new email message, click MESSAGE > Signature > Signatures. Out of Office messages. From your Inbox, click FILE > Automatic replies. If you don’t have an Exchange account, you won’t see that button.

Outlook 2013. If you're familiar with Microsoft Outlook 2010 or earlier versions of Microsoft Outlook, the following list describes features and functionality that have been discontinued or changed in Microsoft Outlook 2013.