Personalize
Hotmail is more than an inbox. It’s an interactive world that belongs only to you. And just like you’d decorate your room at home, you can add color and design to your inbox, as well as control the way you view and send mail. With Hotmail, it’s about you.
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Click Options
A drop-down menu will appear showing your choices of themes.
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Hover over a theme
As you hover, Hotmail will preview it for you in the background.
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Choose your theme
Click on the one you like best. You can come back and change it any time you want!
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Click Options
A drop-down menu will appear showing reading pane options.
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Select a reading pane setting
Choose from Right, Bottom, or Off.
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Return to your inbox
Highlight a message in your inbox to see how it displays. Note:Hotmail helps protect you from spam by blocking images in your preview pane, until you confirm you know the sender, whether you have the reading pane on or off.
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Click Contact list
Located on the lower left of your screen. This will take you to your Contacts page.
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Click Categories
A drop-down menu will appear showing your current list of e-mail lists.
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Click New category
This will take you to a page where you can create a new list.
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Type category name
Call it Cat Lovers, Lunch Club, whatever you want. You also can type the names of contacts you wish to add in the members field, or just click Save to create the list only.
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Click Contact List
Located on the lower left of your screen. This will take you to your Contacts page.
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Select Contacts
Check the boxes next to the contacts you would like to add to a list.
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Click Categories and select group
With boxes checked, click Categories and select the category (list) to which you want to add the selected contacts. (When sending a group e-mail, simply type the group name in the “To:” field.)
