How to Take Advantage of Hotmail Categories

If you have to use your email address quite often, i.e. many times per day, maybe you might be glad to enable a feature that will make your life and experience of using your email address easier and more convenient. One such feature is called "Hotmail categories", which allows you to sort your mail into different folders, such as newsletters, promotions, bills, travel, etc. Moreover, there are personal categories, painted in different colors, which you are able to use the way you wish. In particular, you can add certain filters for adding mail to those categories, once the letters match certain conditions. All in all, there are great opportunities for automatization of your Hotmail account, and this guide shows how to take advantage of the feature of Hotmail categories.

1. The first step you should make is to launch the browser and go to the MSN website: http://msn.com/. 
   
   
   
   
   
   Start arranging your Hotmail account by accessing the website of MSN and clicking on the Outlook.com app
2. On that page, you will find a menu of Microsoft apps, and you should click on the app of Outlook.com. 
   
   
   
   
   
   You should advance further and access your Outlook account by providing your email address and clicking on "Next"
3. Following that action, you will get to see the main webpage of Outlook. In the center of that page, there will be a field, in which you should enter your Outlook (or Hotmail, in other words) address. Upon the completion of it, click on "Next." 
   
   
   
   
   
   Entering the password and hitting the "Sign in" button is the last step prior to accessing your Hotmail account
4. Those actions should be followed by entering the password on the next page and clicking on "Sign in." 
   
   
   
   
   
   After you have opened the menu of options, you get an opportunity to take advantage of the feature of Hotmail categories
5. You will get to see the page of your account on Hotmail after doing so, and there you should click on the button of mail settings (look at the screenshot, if you are struggling to find it). In the menu that you have just triggered, choose "Options." 
   
   
   
   
   
   This is the appearance of the page of Hotmail categories, and you can turn the feature on and add/edit the categories here
6. Once the menu of options has been opened on the left, you should go to "Mail" > "Layout" > "Categories." That is the page for arranging your categories in Hotmail.
7. If you want a certain category to be displayed in your folder pane or to be available in filters, check the respective box(es). If you want to create and utilize your own categories, we highly recommend you to scroll down to personal categories (you can't edit Outlook categories or add any more categories to them) and create new categories by clicking on "+." Whereas you can't rename "Blue category", "Green category", and so on, you will be able to add a name while creating another category. After the completion of this process, click on "Save" (at the top).
8. Sources:
9. https://howtocreateaccounts.weebly.com/
10. https://outlook.live.com/owa/
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