How to Log Out of Outlook

How to Log Out of Outlook

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There are different ways to log out of Outlook, depending on whether you’re using the Outlook app on your computer or Outlook on the web. This article describes how to do both.

Logging Out of Outlook on the Desktop

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    Quit Outlook. With the Outlook window selected, press ALT + F4 to quit.

    • Click here if you’d like to switch to a different email account in Outlook or prompt for a login password whenever you open Outlook.
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    When Outlook is closed, you’re logged out of Outlook.[1]

Logging Out of Outlook on the Web

  1. 1

    Open Outlook in a web browser. The Outlook URL is www.outlook.com.

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    In the top right corner, click your name or username.

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    Click Sign out. You will need to login the next time you use Outlook on the web.

Switching to a Different Email Account in Outlook

Before you can switch a different email account, you’ll need to create one.

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    Open the Control Panel. In Windows 7, click the Start menu, and then click Control Panel. In Windows 8, open the Start screen, and then search for Control Panel.

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    In the sidebar, click User Accounts and Family Safety, and then click Mail.

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    Add a new Outlook profile. In the Mail Setup dialog box, click Show Profiles, and then click Add. Type a name for the profile. Click OK.[2]

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    Configure the email account. Fill out the information for your other email account. Contact your ISP or Outlook administrator if you need help.

    • Popular free email services such as those provided Outlook.com, Google, Yahoo!, or iCloud, will have instructions for how to do this for each of these services.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
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    Set Outlook to prompt for a profile when you open it. In the Mail Setup dialog box, click the Prompt for a profile to be used radio button to select it.

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    Click OK. The next time you open Outlook, it will prompt you to select the mail profile you’d like to use.

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  • Question

    Is it secure to sign out of my Outlook email account when I am not using it?

    How to Log Out of Outlook

    If you sign out of your Outlook email account, you will be secure as long as nobody knows your password.

  • Question

    How do I sign out of outlook on my Android phone?

    How to Log Out of Outlook

    You have to go to “settings” and then “accounts,” and then you will be able to sign out.

  • Question

    Can I switch outlook accounts on my Windows phone?

    How to Log Out of Outlook

    You can sync or backup most of your data to a USB Drive, then reset your phone, set up the different Microsoft account on the phone and any secondary Microsoft accounts to the phone and then sync the personal data back to the phone.

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    How do I sign out of Hotmail in Safari on my iPad?

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    How to Log Out of Outlook

    Go to the corner and under your name there should be a space that says “log out.”

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    How do I log out of the Outlook App on an iPad?

    How to Log Out of Outlook

    For iPhone 8: 1. Go to Outlook’s settings; 2. Under Preferences, turn on the “Require Touch ID”. The Outlook app will ask for “Touch ID” for every time.

  • Question

    What do I do if there’s no sign-out option on Outlook?

    How to Log Out of Outlook

    Hold the Outlook icon down for a couple of seconds and click on the cross (X) when the icon starts oscillating. Job done.

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1. Press Alt + F4 to log out of the desktop app.

2. On the web, click your username and select Sign Out.

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