Create a Free Outlook Account

Quick reference

• 00:04 In order to work through this course,
• 00:06 you're going to need to have access to a Microsoft 365 account.
• 00:09 Now it might be that you have access to an account through work, or
• 00:14 you might wish to create your own outlook.com email account and
• 00:19 access Microsoft 365 services through that.
• 00:23 Now the other method that you could use is you could set up what we
• 00:27 call an E5 trial sandbox account, which you can use to practice your
• 00:32 Microsoft 365 skills without affecting your actual live account.
• 00:37 I'm going to talk more about that in the next lesson.
• 00:40 But in this lesson, I just want to walk you through the process of
• 00:44 creating a free outlook.com email account and
• 00:46 showing you what you have access to in terms of Microsoft 365 applications.
• 00:51 Now, I think by this stage in the game that most of
• 00:54 us are very well aware of how to create a new email account.
• 00:57 But if you're not, let's just quickly walk through the process.
• 01:01 So you can see I've opened up Bing.
• 01:02 I've just typed in set up an Outlook email account.
• 01:06 Let's hit Enter.
• 01:07 And we're going to go to this link just here, Microsoft account.
• 01:11 So now I'm being prompted to enter in the name of the account that I want to use.
• 01:16 So I'm just going to use trainer365@outlook.com.
• 01:21 Notice you can click the dropdown and you could choose to use hotmail.com instead.
• 01:26 We are going to stick with outlook.com and click on Next.
• 01:30 Now, you might find, as I've done here,
• 01:33 that the email address that you want to use has already been taken.
• 01:36 Now there's no getting around this, we just need to select something else.
• 01:41 So let me just add Deb on the end to see if that works, and it does.
• 01:48 So this is my new email address trainer365Deb@outlook.com.
• 01:53 I can then set a password, and then click on Next.
• 01:57 I then need to add a little bit more information to create my account.
• 02:01 So I'm going to add my name in, let's click on Next.
• 02:03 And then we need to add some more information.
• 02:06 And just for the record, that is not my actual birth date.
• 02:09 Let's click on Next.
• 02:11 We now have a little puzzle to solve just so
• 02:13 Microsoft can check to make sure that we're not some kind of robot.
• 02:17 And let's submit.
• 02:18 And if you've got it right, your verification will complete.
• 02:22 So Microsoft is going away and creating my brand new Outlook account.
• 02:27 And there we go, in a couple of minutes, we've set ourselves up on Microsoft 365.
• 02:32 Remember this is a free account, but we can still click on the app launcher in
• 02:36 the corner to see the applications that we have access to.
• 02:39 Now again,
• 02:40 note you're not going to see any of those business enterprise applications.
• 02:45 So you won't see things in here like SharePoint, for example.
• 02:49 We do have Teams in the list, but again,
• 02:52 we have access to a very basic version of Teams.
• 02:55 But mostly they should be good enough for
• 02:57 you to be able to work through this course.
• 03:00 So if you don't want to set yourself up a sandbox account which you're going to
• 03:04 cover in the next lesson, then this would be your alternative option.

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