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What's new in Outlook 2016 for WindowsOutlook 2016 for Windows has all the tools and functionality you've used before, as well as new and improvedfeatures for professional email, calendar, contacts, and task management to help you communicate faster and easier.

Here are some of the top new and improved features you'll find in Outlook 2016:

Email attachmentsWith Outlook 2016, you can save time by easily attaching documents that you most recently used to your emailsfrom the Ribbon. When you attach files from OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or SharePoint, you can share them asView only, or give the recipients Edit permissions, which helps them collaborate easily on one copy that everyoneworks on.

For more information, see Attach a file to an email in Outlook 2016.

Outlook 2016 Groups (Office 365 work or school account)With Outlook 2016 you can use Groups instead of distribution lists to communicate and collaborate with your teammembers.

Groups are the better way to collaborate because:

You can create groups with a few clicks and organize them around topics and conversations to work with yourteams.

With Groups in Outlook 2016, teams now have a shared place for all their email conversations with full history,allowing teams to engage with members right from the Group’s inbox, create team events, join existing Groupsor create new ones.

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You can add a group as a favorite just like a folder. Adding a group as a favorite gives you full access toconversation history when you are offline.

Get access to past conversations and history for Groups you have joined or added as a member.

Within the Groups shared space, messages are grouped together for each conversation to facilitate quickcommunication with your team. You can "Like" a message within a conversation and post a quick reply to havea quick back and forth conversations with your team.

You can also receive social notifications in Outlook when someone "Likes" your message.

Schedule meetings on a group calendar that everyone in group can update.

You can access a group’s conversation in your Inbox by subscribing to a group. This makes it behave like adistribution list. You can also unsubscribe at any time.

Manage groups from Outlook by adding or removing members.

For information about how to create a Group, see Create a group in Outlook 2016. Make sure to check the topics atthe bottom of that article to learn about joining and managing groups, as well as other features.

SearchOutlook 2016 email search is faster, more reliable and provides improved performance. You can seamlessly searchemail across your local computer, Exchange 16 server or Office 365 Mailbox.

Outlook makes it easier to find email by offering keyword and people suggestions based on your mailbox contentfrom Exchange 2016. You can quickly find email from someone that you've been exchanging emails with or a projectyou’re working on. Simply start typing someone's name or a keyword in the search box to see suggestions fromExchange 2016.

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Use Clutter to sort low priority messagesClutter helps you move low priority messages out of your Inbox so that you can easily scan for important messages.Clutter analyzes your emails, and based on your past behavior, determines the messages that you’re most likely toignore. It then automatically moves those messages to a folder called Clutter so that you can review them later.

You can even help Clutter learn your preferences faster by manually moving items in or out of the Clutter folder.

NOTE   If you bought Office 2016 for Windows as a one-time purchase, and you don’t have an Office 365subscription, you won’t have access to some features, such as Clutter. Going forward, there will be regular updateswith new features where you’ll need to have an Office 365 subscription to use them.

For more information, see Use Clutter to sort low priority messages in Outlook.

New Chinese and Japanese Default FontsIn Office 2016, existing Japanese and Simplified Chinese fonts have been updated with a Unified modern look andfeel across the primary authoring apps: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook Mail and OneNote.

EAI (Email Address Internationalization)EAI is a Outlook 2016 feature that enables you to send mail to, or receive mail from any email addresses regardlessof the language of the email address. International addresses work just like English email addresses, so you reply,send, and compose emails the same way.

If you own international email addresses, you can configure them and use all the features of Outlook 2016. Office365 doesn’t support creation of international address at the time of the release of Outlook 2016. However, if you'rean Office 365 user, you can send mail to and receive email from any international address. We recommend that youuse Unicode Outlook data files (pst and ost files) when using EAI.

Tell MeTell Me brings features and help topics to your fingerprints, and saves you the time you would normally use to lookfor a specific function on the Ribbon. You can type what you’re looking for in the Tell Me what you want to do boxat the top of the Ribbon, and see results as soon as you start typing. Every keystroke refines the results so that youcan choose what you’re looking for as soon as you see it. It will also give you the option to read help topics on thefeature you're looking for, if you need more information.

For example, type Reading in the box and Tell Me will bring back the Reading Pane command, which lets you

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For example, type Reading in the box and Tell Me will bring back the Reading Pane command, which lets youchoose your reading pane options. Or try typing Print and choose one of the options.

When you click in the Tell Me box, you'll also see a list of the last five commands you ran from within Tell Me, savingyou time getting to the feature you want faster.

Applies To: Outlook 2016, Office 365 End User

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