Whether you’re starting from a Microsoft template or updating one of your own, Word's built-in tools help you update templates to suit your needs. To update your template, open the file, make the changes you want, and then save the template. In Microsoft Word, you can create a template by saving a document as a .dotx file, .dot file, or a .dotm fie (a .dotm file type allows you to enable ...

When you want people to know your message needs urgent attention, set the message as high importance. If the message is just an FYI, or if you’re sending mail to colleagues about a non-work related topic, you can set the message as low importance.

Smart App Control adds significant protection from new and emerging threats by blocking apps that are malicious or untrusted. Smart App Control also helps to block potentially unwanted apps, which are apps that may cause your device to run slowly, display unexpected ads, offer extra software you didn't want, or do other things you don't expect.

Important Because changing your Microsoft account password is slightly different than resetting a forgotten password, this page does not cover the steps to reset your account password.

Try it! Keep track of everyone you communicate with by creating and editing contacts in Outlook for Windows. Once you’ve saved someone as a contact, you can type the first few letters of their name into an email, and Outlook for Windows will fill in their email address for you.

If you choose the Do Not Forward option, there are two possibilities:. Microsoft Office attachments such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint files remain encrypted even after they’re downloaded. This means that if the recipient downloads the attachment and sends it to someone else, the person they forwarded it to won’t be able to open the attachment because they don’t have permission to open it.

What you can customize: You can personalize your ribbon to arrange tabs and commands in the order you want them, hide or unhide your ribbon, and hide those commands you use less often.Also, you can export or import a customized ribbon. What you can't customize: You can't reduce the size of your ribbon, or the size of the text or the icons on the ribbon.

Select this option to import Internet Explorer Browsing History into Microsoft Edge. Because the Top sites shown in the New tab page are generated based on the browsing history in Microsoft Edge, you may see the Top sites change based on the imported history data.

Note: For detailed information about inserting and editing field codes, using switches, setting and changing properties, displaying results vs. field codes, locking fields, and other common tasks, see Insert, edit, and view fields in Word.

With External Access for Teams, you can add or invite anyone outside of your Teams org who uses Teams, Teams for personal use, Skype (for consumers), and Skype for Business to a one-to-one chat.