How to Use Outlook without Microsoft Email Account?

Presently Outlook plays a vast role in communication purposes through emails. It saves its mailbox data in PST file format. Its amazing interface attracts users and makes the handling easy for them. Whenever a user starts Outlook, it first asks for an email address. So, here in this guide, we are going to tell you that you can use Outlook without email account through the given way. 

First of all, you should understand the important scenarios in which you should use this approach. 

• When you wish to make your Calendar and Contacts accessible on your computer from your smartphone, and your smartphone has an Outlook sync feature.
• Only use Outlook to manage your Schedule, Tasks, and/or Contacts.
• When users do not necessarily use MS Outlook but have PST data files that they try to open.
• Users want to keep all pst-files indexed, but make sure that they do not link at the same time to the main mail profile. 

Now, let’s begin the methods to use Outlook without Microsoft Account or email account. 

Instant Solutions if you don’t have an Outlook Account

1. How to Open PST Files Without Outlook?
2. Use PST File Viewer Tool and open, view or read PST with the Outlook application.
3. Try OST File Viewer to access OST files without Outlook.

How to use Outlook without Email Account Manually?

There are manual methods for setting up Outlook without email account as follows:

Method for Outlook 2016, Outlook 2019 and Office 365-

A “Welcome to Outlook” dialog box opens when starting Outlook, which significantly facilitates adding an email address, but there’s no way to miss this. It’s to stop other people from accidentally beginning Outlook without an email address.

Even without an email account, you can build an Outlook Mail Profile through the following way-

1. First, press the Windows icon and open the Start Menu.
2. Then search by typing outlook.exe /pim “No Account” in the search bar. 
3. A search field will pop up automatically when you start typing.
4. Make sure to check the spaces in the command.
5. Also, you can use your name at the place of “No Account”.

Notice: This approach does not refer to Outlook 2016 based MSI (build number 16.0.4xxx.xxxx) installation. Nevertheless, without an email address, you can still create a Mail Profile using the method mentioned in the “Previous Versions” section below. 

Method for a “No Account” Mail Profile:

To link to an existing PST file of your choice, follow the steps below:

• Go to the File menu>>Open & Export>>Open Outlook Data File…
• To configure this pst-file as the default, and to remove the free use empty, follow the steps below:

1.  Go to the File menu>> Account Settings>> Account Settings>> tab Data Files>>use the “Set as Default” and “Remove” commands.

• You can switch between Mail Profiles if you also have a mail account via following steps:

1. Go to the File menu>> Account Settings>> Change Profile

• After all, when you want to add an account later, you can do so via the following steps:

1. Go to the File menu>> Add Account.

Also Read: Reliable Methods to Remove Outlook Duplicate Emails Manually

Methods for Previous Outlook Versions-

If you’re using a previous version of Outlook or an Outlook 2016 installation based on MSI, you can simply cancel creating a mail account when you start Outlook or create a new Mail Profile, but you have to be fairly consistent.

If you create a new mail profile through the Control Panel mail applet or the Choose Profile dialog:

• Click the Cancel button when the Add Account dialog opens.
• You will be asked if you want to create a profile without an email address. 
• Select OK.

1. Outlook shows the screen of welcome and you plan to add an email address. Select Next.
2. You’ll be asked if you want to customize Outlook to connect to your mail account. Choose No option, then hit Next button
3. Note that you are adding an email account and agree that you want to do exactly that by picking this option “Use Outlook without an email account”.
4. Then press the Finish button.

If you are having an email account with Mail profile then transfer between two mail profiles can be done by closing MS Outlook. Then use the below steps:

• Visit the Start icon and type “outlook.exe/profiles” in the search field. 
• Go to the Control panel and open a Mail Applet. Browse the Show Profiles and activate the “Prompt for a profile to be used “ option.

So these are the manual methods, you can perform using Outlook without an email account. Now, you can easily use Outlook without email account.

Verdict!!

This guide clearly explains all the methods for how to use Outlook without email account. This guide will definitely help you in setting up an Outlook account without Microsoft Account. If you were still not able to use Outlook then you can open Outlook files in Thunderbird by converting PST to MBOX.

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