For the Mail app, though, be prepared to do some digging: Everything from bold to undo is located in the Options bar, which you access by right-clicking or swiping up from the bottom of the screen. Fortunately, highlighting some text automatically brings up the menu, saving yourself a couple clicks. But this is something you find by accident—which is the case with many Windows 8 features. Considering the amount of emoticons that Mail has available, I half expected to see as many fonts as in Word.
However, the Mail app falls quite short in this regard: Only eight fonts are available, and all of them are boring. I guess the limitations help to keep you from accidentally sending an important email in Comic Sans. It may be a little too much to ask, but having Mail and Calendar work together with greater efficiency would be a blessing. When dates and times come up in an email, it would be great to have the option to add the event to the Calendar right from Mail. Alas, you need to add it in manually.
Accounts: This setting allows you to add any number of calendars from various sources. Choose Add an account and select Hotmail, Outlook, or Google. Enter the email address and associated password, and enjoy a newly synced calendar and account. Selecting an already added account will give you options nearly identical to those for mail, including naming the account, when to download new email, the types of content to sync contacts, email, and calendar , and the option to remove the account.
Options: Here you can choose a few rudimentary options for your calendar. Sync communicates with your mail client and automatically syncs the account. Move allows you to shift an email message to a different folder. The unecrypted cache isn't hard to decipher at all. But it's filled with all sorts of interesting observations, important not only for forensics experts but Windows 8 Admins and the idly curious as well.
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The key is to sign in to your PC with your Microsoft account. To add an account to the Mail app If the email address for your Microsoft account ends in outlook. Go to the Start screen, and open the Mail app—your email is waiting for you. If your email address ends in a different domain, like gmail. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Settings.
If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, and then click Settings. Tap or click Accounts, tap or click Add an account, and then tap or click the type of account you'd like to add. Windows 8 Windows 8. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first.
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