Is your version of Outlook up to date? Do you know how to check the status of your Outlook updates?
Outlook is one of the most popular email clients in the world, particularly for those in business. Enabling you to synchronize all your other mail clients, you can use Outlook to check your company mail, personal mail and other mail all in one platform.
With this in mind, it’s important to ensure that the version of Outlook that you use is up to date. But how do you do that?
How to check for Updates in Outlook
If you’re not sure whether the version of Outlook that you’re using is up-to-date, follow the steps below:
- Open Outlook on your computer
- Click on File then search for your Office Account
- Go to Update Options
- Choose Update now
If there are current updates available, they will start downloading immediately. In the event that you are already up to date, you will get a message letting you know that no updates need to be completed.
Why bother with updates?
As you can see, checking for Outlook updates is a pretty straightforward process – But why should you worry about updating your Outlook in the first place?
There are a couple of reasons why it’s always a good idea to keep not only your Microsoft Outlook, but all your Office applications up to date. It’s also important to update your Word, PowerPoint and other Office applications. In fact, staying up to date with the latest releases is crucial for all applications on your computer. But why is that the case?
Security
The first reason has to do with security. There are a lot of threats floating out there. Unfortunately, no software is infallible and vulnerabilities are always being uncovered. Not surprisingly, where there are vulnerabilities, there are hackers who have made it their task to try and exploit them. Allowing them to get into your system can cause a lot of harm, and ensuring your software is up-to-date is the best way to ensure hackers can’t get into and cause damage to your system.
That’s particularly important in today’s world, where our computers are intimately tied to our lives. With Outlook so commonly used in business, not keeping your software up-to-date and allowing unauthorised people access to your mail can do a lot of harm.
New Features
The second reason has to do with new and improved features. While hackers are always on the hunt for new ways to exploit software, companies are always on the hunt to identify and plug these vulnerabilities.
Microsoft is one such company. When a security threat is identified, updates are released to plug these holes. As such, it’s very important to always stay up-to-date. In some instances, software updates may also bring new features that can prove beneficial for your business and help improve workflow. This is another reason why it’s important to periodically check for updates for your Office tools to ensure you have the latest and greatest features that Microsoft Office has to offer.
Most modern businesses use email signatures
Utilising the most up-to-date tech can have huge benefits for many businesses, and email signatures are no exception.
Modern businesses need to ensure that all email outgoing email communication have professional email signatures, and Crossware365 can help with this extensively.
Email signatures are helpful in a variety of ways – They help build brand awareness, provide additional information and can include your social media links, address and title. It’s important for a person opening your messages to immediately associate your email communication with your brand, and you can achieve this goal using company symbols, colours and your logo.
You can find out more about what to include in an Email Signature in our recent blog – What to include in an email signature.
At Crossware, we understand the need to come up with professional looking signatures. If you don’t do this, your signature could very well play against you. In this regard, email signatures can be a double-edged sword. No one will believe that a message is from a professional company if the signature is poorly designed, but with Crossware, this is an issue of the past.
We offer easy-to-use drag and drop solutions, allowing you to easily create and adjust email signatures. Our centralised signature management portal also ensures departments don’t have to come up with a unique signature, saving time and money – something that’s important for big organisations.
Try out Crossware today for free for the best email signature software in the world. We specialize in Microsoft Exchange, HCL Domino and Microsoft 365. So, what are you waiting for?
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