Upgrade from OE to Outlook, but no joint account?

[Guest]

Hi

My husband & I have recently upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000.
In Express we had separate email accounts on the pc we share and could access
our own e-mails by going to File, Switch Identity. However, in Outlook this
option doesn't appear to be available. Am I looking in the wrong place?

We are on XP. When we upgraded we let Outlook transfer over our current
settings, Inbox, Contacts etc

Can we still have our two separate email accounts in Outlook, and how do we
get to view the messages? We have the one account log on for our pc, so we'd
like to avoid setting up another account if possible.

Thanks for any help
Gloria

 

[Gordon]

Hi

My husband & I have recently upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook
2000.
In Express we had separate email accounts on the pc we share and could
access
our own e-mails by going to File, Switch Identity. However, in Outlook
this
option doesn't appear to be available. Am I looking in the wrong place?

We are on XP. When we upgraded we let Outlook transfer over our current
settings, Inbox, Contacts etc

Can we still have our two separate email accounts in Outlook, and how do
we
get to view the messages? We have the one account log on for our pc, so
we'd
like to avoid setting up another account if possible.

Thanks for any help
Gloria

Please look at the responses to your original post. If you see this, you
click on the "+" sign at the side to see the replies.....

 

[Gordon]

we have the one account log on for our pc, so we'd
like to avoid setting up another account if possible.

Why?

 

[Guest]

Hi Gordon

We both use the same programs, functions etc on the pc, except we have
different email addresses, which as mentioned before we could quite easily
switch between. So we had no real need to set up two accounts on the pc.
Seems a shame that this feature has been omitted through an upgarde.
Thx for your advice though.

 

[Gordon]

Hi Gordon

We both use the same programs, functions etc on the pc, except we have
different email addresses, which as mentioned before we could quite easily
switch between. So we had no real need to set up two accounts on the pc.
Seems a shame that this feature has been omitted through an upgarde.
Thx for your advice though.

Outlook is NOT an "upgrade" from Outlook Express - they are two completely
different programs aimed at completely different sectors

 

[Guest]

There are several ways to do similar things to help join or separately view
your mail. Perhaps the most similar to what you had in OE is by using
profiles:
1) Go to the Control Panel and click on "Mail" (If MS didn't have the
"classic" so different from the "native" i would give you keystrokes)
2) Click "Show Profiles"
3) Add a new profile, and go through all the wizard settings for the second
email address.
4) When you get back to the Mail dialog that lists the profiles, click
"Prompt for a profile to be used" under "When starting MS outlook...".
Now each time you start Outlook it will ask for whom the mail tolls. and you
can still make great use of all the extra features OE does not have.
I really don't care if M¢ calls it a whole new "Information Management"
progam that integrates with mail, or if you call it upgraded mail with I.M.
stuff added on. It still does what it does and would be a shame to pay $50 to
$100 and lose functionality over the "Included with the OS" teaser product.
- Good Luck.

 

[Brian Tillman]

My husband & I have recently upgraded from Outlook Express to Outlook
2000. In Express we had separate email accounts on the pc we share
and could access our own e-mails by going to File, Switch Identity.
However, in Outlook this option doesn't appear to be available. Am I
looking in the wrong place?

No. Outlook doesn't have "identities". Outlook 2000 is not an "upgrade" of
Outlook Express, any more than Word is an "upgrade" of Notepad. They're
completely separate apps.

If you have Outlook installed in Corporate/Workgroup mode (Help>About) will
tell you the mode), then you can have separate mail profiles that will allow
you to separate your mail completely. However, in my opinion you should
have separate Windows logins. That won't prevent you from both using the
same programs.