How To Use MSN Or Hotmail

Using MSN or Hotmail is an easy task. If you are a beginner and want to know how to use MSN or Hotmail, just consider the following guidelines. Once you follow them, Hotmail will be a game. To learn using Hotmail, you need to have a Hotmail account.

Guidelines on How to Use MSN or Hotmail

The following guidelines should be followed:

  1. Go to the website of Hotmail and enter your username and password and “sign in”. You will be taken to your inbox by clicking on the left hand side button on your screen.
  2. To open up the email you want to reply to, you can click on the name of the sender or the message column.
  3. The top of the screen will display the “Reply” option. Click it and a text message body will appear. Type your message in the space provided.
  4. You can save your message in a folder. For this, you need to create a new folder by clicking on “Folders” and then on “New”. These buttons will appear on the left side of the Hotmail screen. Creating folders lead to better organization of emails. If you do not wish to save the message you can press “X” in red, located on the top of the screen.
  5. You can also use “Move” option to move the emails in the desired folders appearing on the left hand side of the screen.
  6. If you wish to share an email with others, “Forward” option is handy. Click on the “Forward” option located inside the email itself and then click “Send”. You need to specify the email address of the recipient. A message stating your mail has been sent shall appear if you are successful.
  7. For composing a new message, click “New”, enter the email address of the recipient, type your message and then press “Send”.
  8. You can delete an unwanted or unsolicited email by checking in the box appearing next to it and then click “Spam”.

These are some of the popular email functions of Hotmail.

How To Make An Email Signature For Hotmail

You must have seen emails where the sender of the mail had appended her signature at the bottom of the email. This practice leaves a good impression on the receiver. If you want to learn how to make an email signature for Hotmail, just follow the following steps.

Steps to Learn How to Make an Email Signature for Hotmail

Follow the steps given below –

  • Step 1: Click the “Options” button appearing on the top right corner of the screen, once you have successfully logged into Hotmail.
  • Step 2: Select “Customize your Mail” and then select “Personal Email Signature” from the menu.
  • Step 3: Type the signature that you want to see appended at the bottom of your message in the text box every time you send an email.
  • Step 4: To personalize your signature you can select the font, font size and the color in which you want to add your signature. These options are present at the top of the text box. One can also add a hyperlink in the signature. For this, click the “Globe” icon to insert a hyperlink.
  • Step 5: Once you are finished with the personalization, click on the “Save” button and your signature will be saved with Hotmail.
  • Step 6: Check if the signature has been added or not by creating a new Hotmail email message. Your signature will appear automatically in the body of the message every time you create a new email message.
  • Step 7: For a more lasting impression, one can also append a quote, joke or a thought in the signature.
  • Thus making an email signature for Hotmail is fun. There can be different ways one can make use to make their signatures look good and unique.