6 Tips and Tricks for Microsoft’s New Hotmail.com

Microsoft's new Outlook.com is the successor to Hotmail – all Hotmail clients will in the end be relocated to Outlook.com. Outlook.com is a cutting edge webmail framework that offers some helpful highlights, incorporating some not found in Gmail. 

In the event that you have a @hotmail.com address, don't stress – you'll have the capacity to utilize Outlook.com with @hotmail.com addresses, as well. To begin with Outlook.com or make a @outlook.com email address, make a beeline for Outlook.com.

Make Email Aliases 

You can without much of a stretch make altogether isolate email tends to that all end up in your Outlook.com inbox – simply tap the apparatus symbol at the upper right corner of Outlook.com, select More mail settings, and select Create an Outlook nom de plume under Managing your record. 

This is an exceptionally helpful component – beyond any doubt, you can do this with Gmail, yet you'd need to experience the record creation process numerous circumstances and set up email sending to your primary record. This is not the same as Gmail's nom de plume include, which dependably uncovered your primary email address.

Use SkyDrive for Large Attachments

Outlook.com is integrated with Microsoft’s new SkyDrive service. When you try to attach a large file to an email, Outlook.com will upload that file to SkyDrive instead and send the email recipient a SkyDrive link. This makes it easy to send large files to multiple people or share files with people that may not have room for them in their email inbox.

You can control this feature by clicking the Attachments link on the More mail settings screen.

Sweep Emails

The sweep feature allows you to quickly clean up your inbox and keep it tidy. Do you get automatic emails with special offers that are only valid for a short period of time? You can have Outlook.com automatically clear out old versions of the email when a new one arrives, ensuring only the latest email from a sender is in your inbox.

To set this up, click the Sweep button on the toolbar and select Schedule cleanup.

You’ll be able to keep only the latest message, or automatically delete messages after 10 days – this can help if email newsletters you haven’t read yet are building up.

Create Rules

Select the Move All From or Delete All From option in the sweep menu to easily move or delete all emails from a specific sender. Click the check box to also move or delete future messages and Outlook.com will create a rule (known as a “filter” in Gmail) that will apply to your incoming email.

You can also create more complex filters – just select Manage Rules in the Sweep menu. You can match based on the senders name or address, the message’s subject, whether it has attachments or not, and who the message was sent to. Matched messages can be moved elsewhere, categorized, deleted, flagged, or forwarded to another email address.

Utilize Keyboard Shortcuts 

Outlook.com underpins an assortment of console alternate ways. In case you're an accomplished Gmail or Yahoo! Mail client, you can even utilize Gmail's console alternate ways in Outlook.com – clickKeyboard easy routes on the More mail settings screen to tweak this. 

For a full rundown of console alternate ways, look at the rundown on Microsoft's site.

View Content From Twitter & Facebook

Click the Content from third-party networks link on the More mail settings screen to link your Outlook.com account with your Twitter or Facebook accounts. You’ll be able to see social updates and tweets from your contacts right on Outlook.com. Most people will probably find this more useful than Gmail’s Google+ integration.

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Whether you’re a Hotmail user or not, Outlook.com offers some useful new features and a fresh new interface. What do you think of it?