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 Windows icon (Start button) in the taskbar at the bottom of your screen.
   

2. Click on the Settings icon.

3. In the search bar, type Default apps and click on it when it appears in the list.

4. Scroll down until you see Outlook in the list of apps and click on it.

 to select 'Outlook' instead of 'Mail'. This step may look different depending on which version of Windows you are on.
Scroll down until you see the MAILTO. Make sure this shows Outlook. If it doesn't, click on this and change it to Outlook

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