Outlook 2010 Help setting up Gmail account in Outlook 2010

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Hello everyone,
I just found out that my email address from Cableone is discontinuing email service in the upcoming year. For someone who has had a cableone email address for so many years I forget when I first got it, has to be 15-20 years ago. You can imagine how freaked out I am just finding this out, everyone I have communications with, banks, other business's etc. and friends and now I have to find another email service, then let everyone know. sound like fun NOT!!!!!

Okay now the good news, I have had a Gmail account for several years which will become my new email address. I want to start the change out now rather than wait for the 60 day notice cableone
( SparkLight) will be giving customers.

I have outlook 2010 and tried to setup my Gmail account and it didn't work is there a recent tutorial on how to setup Gmail on Outlook 2010.

On another note I want to revisit if it is worth upgrading to a newer version of Outlook. I only use it for personal use so I don't want to go to Office 365 and pay monthly. I'd rather buy a Outlook client that is a flat fee and doesn't have to be renewed every year as my Outlook 2010 is. I own a license for office 2013 but I don't like the pastel colors so I never installed it. So here are my questions about a new Outlook or new Office

In Outlook 2010 when dialog boxes open they are so tiny the older I get the harder it is to see. It has always been this way. is there a newer version that doesn't have the pastel colors or at least give me a choice not to use them and is the interface and dialog boxes easier to see?

I know I just asked 2 completely different questions but if I have to go through this change if there is a better Office product that is better than 2010 other than 365 I'd like to look at the choices.

Thanks in advance
Ron

 

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Hello everyone,
I just found out that my email address from Cableone is discontinuing email service in the upcoming year. For someone who has had a cableone email address for so many years I forget when I first got it, has to be 15-20 years ago. You can imagine how freaked out I am just finding this out, everyone I have communications with, banks, other business's etc. and friends and now I have to find another email service, then let everyone know. sound like fun NOT!!!!!

Okay now the good news, I have had a Gmail account for several years which will become my new email address. I want to start the change out now rather than wait for the 60 day notice cableone
( SparkLight) will be giving customers.

I have outlook 2010 and tried to setup my Gmail account and it didn't work is there a recent tutorial on how to setup Gmail on Outlook 2010.

On another note I want to revisit if it is worth upgrading to a newer version of Outlook. I only use it for personal use so I don't want to go to Office 365 and pay monthly. I'd rather buy a Outlook client that is a flat fee and doesn't have to be renewed every year as my Outlook 2010 is. I own a license for office 2013 but I don't like the pastel colors so I never installed it. So here are my questions about a new Outlook or new Office

In Outlook 2010 when dialog boxes open they are so tiny the older I get the harder it is to see. It has always been this way. is there a newer version that doesn't have the pastel colors or at least give me a choice not to use them and is the interface and dialog boxes easier to see?

I know I just asked 2 completely different questions but if I have to go through this change if there is a better Office product that is better than 2010 other than 365 I'd like to look at the choices.

Thanks in advance
Ron

UPDATE***
I was able to find how to setup Gmail in Outlook 2010 and researched all versions of Outlook and once again even though I want to upgrade 2010 seems to be the best fit for me.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Auto account setup normally works great for gmail but it might add it as a pop account in 2010.... so manual setup would be needed.

Unless you use exchange or want to have the latest and greatest, 2010 is fine. If you would be getting the retial version, not subscription, wait a few months - the next version should be out in a few months.

 

[e_a_g_l_e_p_i]

Auto account setup normally works great for gmail but it might add it as a pop account in 2010.... so manual setup would be needed.

Unless you use exchange or want to have the latest and greatest, 2010 is fine. If you would be getting the retial version, not subscription, wait a few months - the next version should be out in a few months.

Thanks for your reply,
when I tried to do the auto account it would fail due to not being able to connect to an encrypted server and asked if I wanted to continue with a unencrypted connection, I chose no. I found a tutorial that explained how to fix it and it worked so now I have everything working fine.


when reading your reply I was left with questions,
As far as an exchange, I have never used one and don't really know how they work. So I am not interested in an exchange.

How would I get the latest and greatest 2010 and how is it different than my version now?

We you talk about a retail version I assume you mean the newest version after 2019?