Click the “Default email reader” option, and select Microsoft Outlook.Open the Preferences menu, then select General.If you are able to open the Apple Mail app (most people do since it comes preinstalled with macOS), the steps to configure Outlook as your default email app are as follows: Making Outlook the default email composition app Additionally, you may want to make Outlook the default app to open email files, which normally end in an. After testing it and confirming that it opens Outlook on both laptops, I then uninstalled the MS Desktop Integration Tool, which I had used for the previous year or so, from my personal laptop.If you want to use Outlook as the email app on your macOS computer, so that when you click on an email address like it opens Outlook automatically, you need to configure it first. Next time I was on my personal laptop, I checked Edge for that option and sure enough, it was there. I happened to notice that on a new office laptop running Win 10 on which Edge is the default browser. Only within the past few months, I'm not sure when, was Outlook updated to do so. Click it and it will redirect you to your default email app.Īs I understood, the default e-mail app has to support the "Default mail app" button in Edge. A window will open which only contains a Share button. So when you share a link, just select "Share via e-mail" instead.
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If not, an alternative would be to download this app insteadīasically, this will link your browser and your default email app. You can try to download the Outlook version from the Microsoft store and see if the app would appear in the Share option. Am I correct? If so, the apps appearing on the "Share" option are apps downloaded from the Microsoft Store. Basically, you go to a website then click the ellipsis > Share and you want Outlook to be in that option.
Hi CT6PY, I am Paulo, an Independent Advisor willing to help. I am on most current version of the Edge browser. So much for speeding up the user experience and giving choice to the informed user. I am OK if I need to continue using that workaround, but it was nice that IE expedited that sharing feature.
My work-around is to paste the hyperlink into an Outlook email, which just creates that many more steps. Am I missing steps somewhere, or did Microsoft deprecate the ability to change the browser's choice of email app?
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It doesn't look like there is a way to update the email app choices available when sharing hyperlinks while working in the Edge browser. Outlook is already my default email app in my computer's Settings. IE was the only browser (or at least, the only major market browser) that had this feature, which is one reason I got used to using it.
the ability to share links via an Outlook email), which Microsoft appears to have deprecated in the Edge browser.
The Internet Explorer (IE) browser had this feature (i.e. (It doesn't matter that the Microsoft Mail app will send emails, too - that kind of feedback doesn't do me any good.) Edge is only presenting the Microsoft Mail app as an email sharing option. If I am working in the modern Edge browser (a.k.a., "Chromium Edge"), I would like to "Share" hyperlinks through an Outlook email.