Changing Your Default Email to Outlook

Changing Your Default Email to Outlook:

If you click on a link to email from, it may try to open the 'Mail' App. Our work emails use Outlook and not Mail. The default settings can be changed to so when an email link is clicked, your Outlook email will open to send the email. To change your default settings, please follow these instructions:

1. Click on the 'Start' (Window's icon).
Windows 11

Windows 10


2. Click 'Settings' (gear icon).

Windows 11

Windows 10


3. In the search bar, type 'Default apps' and click on it.

4. Under 'Choose default apps', locate where is says 'Mail' or 'Email' and click on it to select 'Outlook' instead of 'Mail'. This step may look different depending on which version of Windows you are on.

Windows 10

   

Windows 11

If you get another screen when you click on mail that wants you to be more specific, click on the 'MAILTO' and change that to be 'Outlook'.

When clicking on a link that send mails, it will open your work email account to send that email.