Select File > Account Settings > Account Settings.įrom the list of accounts on the Email tab, select the account you want to use as the default account.Īlways use the default email account for sending new email You can change your default email account using the following steps. Select Options, then select From in the Show Fields group on the ribbon. Once you add the From button, you can't remove it unless you remove all but one email account from Outlook. If you have multiple email accounts, you can add the From button manually. To view the From button, you'll need to add another email account.

If you see the Send button, but don’t see the From button, the typical cause is that your Outlook profile contains only one email account. In the message window, above to To button, click From.

You can change which account is used to send a message. Her default account is Her second account is If Cheryl receives an email message from Chester at her account, when she replies to Chester's message, her reply will be sent using If she creates a new message to Chester that's not a reply or a forward, the message will be sent using her account. However, if you want to Reply, Reply All, or Forward a message, Outlook will send your message with the same account the original mail was sent to.

If you have multiple accounts in Outlook, when you compose a new email message, Outlook picks the default account as the From account.

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