You MUST use the button before closing the window or your customizing efforts for that particular session will be lost.

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Out of Office Assistant' area
  
• Select the 'I'm currently out of the office' if you want an auto reply sent when an email comes in. You can customize the message.
• If you chose the auto reply option, you will need to change it back to 'I'm in the office' if you do NOT want the message to be sent.

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Messaging Options' area
  
• Click on the down arrow following the current number of items
• Select another number from the drop down list. The highest number of messages per page is 100.

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Messaging Options' area
  
• Click on the 'Choose Font' button
• Select the font and style you would like to use with your messages. Keep in mind that all the people you send e-mail to may not have the same fonts on their computer.
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• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Messaging Options' area
• Click on the 'Edit Signature..' button
  
• Select the font styles, etc. you would like to use with your signature.
• Type whatever you would like to use.
• Click the 'Save and Close' button to save your changes.
  
• Open the window for a new email message to see if your signature is there and if you would like to change it. Return to the Options window if you have changes.

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Messaging Options' area
• Click in the boxes containing the notification you would like to enable.
  
• A check mark enables the option, an empty box disables it.

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Reading Pane Options' area
• Select the radio button you would like to use.
• Return to this area if you want to change the option.
  

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Spelling Options' area
• Select the options you would like to use by clicking in the box until a check mark is shown. To remove the option, remove the check mark.
  
• NOTE: If using web mail from home - the Spelling and Dictionary Options pack should have been installed the first time you logged on to OWA.

• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Privacy and Junk E-Mail Prevention' area
• Click in the 'Filter Junk E-mail' to place a checkmark in the box.
• Messages received from people who are NOT on the safe senders list will go into the Junk E-mail folder.
  • Safe senders are a combination of those in your global and personal contacts and also those you designate as being safe senders.
• Some email is automatically filtered when it arrives so you do not see it.
  

• Basic blue can be change to another color
  
• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Appearance' area
• Select the arrow to select another color from the dropdown list
  
• The color will NOT change until you click the 'Save and Close' button at the top.
  

• use to set the way dates and times are displayed in your message folders and calendar
• Open the options window
• Locate the 'Appearance' area
• Use the drop down lists to select the format you prefer
  

• Change the items in the drop down lists to set up how you would like your calendar to display.
  

• Place check marks in the box to enable reminders for Calendar and task items by clicking on the box.
  
• The reminder will be a window similar to the image below
  
• The reminder dialog window will NOT appear unless, or until, you are logged on to web mail.
• Your computer must have sound capabilities enabled in order to hear the sound. You must be logged onto web mail for the alert.

• This option allows you to choose which contact list to search first.
  

• There is one more chance recover a message AFTER you have deleted the deleted items folder *See NOTE
• Open the options window
• locate the Recover Deleted Items are
• select the 'View Items' button
  
• Select the item(s) you would like to recover
• Click the 'Recover' button at the top
  
• The item will be moved back to the Deleted Items folder
• Select the item and use the move/copy button to remove it from the deleted items folder
• When finished, be sure to select the 'Close' button
• * NOTE: The cache of deleted items it periodically emptied on the server, so the item you want to recover may truly have been deleted.

• Select the 'Recover Deleted Items' button to permanently remove a message from the server
  
• Select the item(s) you would like to remove
• Click the 'Permanently Delete' button
  
• Be sure to use the 'Close' button when finished

• Open the Options Window
• locate the 'Privacy and Junk E-mail Prevention' area
  
• Select the 'Manage Junk E-mail Lists...' button
• The 'Safe Senders' list will open by default
• Click the down arrow for a drop down list of which group of senders you would like to view or modify
  
• select the sender, then add, edit or remove from the list
• Select the 'OK' button to close the window
• messages from those you designate as 'Safe' will go directly to your Inbox instead of Junk E-mail.
• How to designate blocked or safe senders is covered in the E-mail section.