Microsoft Outlook can be turned into a simple yet powerful task and project manager How to Use Outlook for Simple Tasks and Project Management How to Use Outlook for Simple Tasks and Project Management Outlook can work as a simple tool for managing projects and tasks. Here's how to set up Outlook Tasks to set reminders and due dates, assign to-dos, and track links. Read More But how? After all, Outlook always greets you with a "Welcome to Outlook" screen and asks for your email address.
You can start Outlook without an email address. This allows you to use the software for your calendar and tasks, or just for contact management.
It is a simple one-step process. Click the Windows button and in the search box type and press Enter:
outlook.exe / pim Note the space between ".exe" and "/pim" in the above command. Also, there should be no space in the profile name. The profile name can be any descriptor you want to call. Outlook starts without an email address, contacts, tasks, or calendar entries.
Keep in mind the only downside to using Outlook without an email account:
Any personal information you create in this clean Outlook profile will only be available on this local computer. None of your information will sync unless you also add an email account to Outlook that allows you to share contacts, tasks, and calendar entries.
So if you want to add an email account at a later date, you can follow these two methods:
The option to open Outlook by skipping email account details also makes it a readily available tool to archive old PST files or open one for your data.
Do you use Microsoft Outlook only as a personal information manager?