Configuring the Desktop Alert in Microsoft Outlook

Video Transcript

"When Outlook is running in the background and it is not our main window, our emails are still going to be received and we will get a notification on our desktop that let's us know a new email has arrived. And that is this little blue box that appears and I am going to show you how to configure this desktop alert. We can actually turn it off if it is annoying or we can change the perimeters to make it lighter, darker, last longer or shorter and let me go ahead and show you how to do that. First we are going to click on tools and then go down to options and we see here on the email section on top we have email options. Go ahead and click on that. Now if we go ahead and click on advanced email options, we see that we have a button over here that is called desktop alert settings. We will go ahead and click on that. We see now we have a slider. We can make the notification last longer or shorter just by right clicking and sliding it back and forth and we see the seconds are changing everytime. And we also have the transparency level that we can change right on twenty percent transparency. We can go ahead and change that, make it darker and lighter and that is how we change that setting. Of course if we don't want the desktop alert to appear at all, then we can go ahead and shut it off over here. Right now these are check marks; we have play a sound, change the mouse cursor, we can absolutely just turn it off over here and therefore no new mail desktop alert will appear."