If you’re like most people, you probably have Outlook installed on your desktop. But if you want to stop receiving email notifications from your Outlook account, there are a few steps you can take.

  1. Open Outlook and click the three lines in the top left corner of the screen that look like a gear wheel. This will show you a list of tools that are available to you, including “Tools,” “Options,” and “Settings.”
  2. In the “Tools” section, click on the “Notifications” tab. This will show you a list of all of your current notifications. You can either clear all of them or selectively clear some of them by clicking on one of the checkboxes next to it.
  3. Click on the “Clear All Notifications” button to clear all of your notifications for both your Inbox and Calendar folders.

You may find yourself wasting a lot of time checking email throughout the day and wondering why none of your projects were completed. If the desktop notifications are distracting you we can simply turn them off.

With Outlook open click on Tools Options and then the E-mail Options button.

Now in the E-mail Options window click on the Advanced E-mail Options button.

Now uncheck the box next to “Display a New Mail Desktop Alert” and while at it you might at well uncheck “Play a Sound” too, then just click OK and close out of the remaining windows.

Another thing to point out is if you click on the Desktop Alert Settings button you can change the duration of the alert and also the transparency.  When you come in to turn the alerts back on you might want to experiment with these.

Now you can still have Outlook open and get those TPS Reports completed without being distracted.