Microsoft Outlook Emails: What You Need to Know

The following updates apply specifically to Office 2013 clients installed using a particular method, and cannot be installed on click-to-run installations of Office 2016.

As of January 3, 2017, the KB3141453 update was released for Outlook 2016. This was followed by the KB3115407 update for Outlook 2016 Junk Email Filter on August 2, 2016. Additionally, MS17-002: Description of the security update for Word 2016 was released on January 10, 2017.

On January 3, 2017, an update (KB3141473) was also made available for Office 2016. After installing these updates, you should see new versions of important files used by Outlook.

It's worth noting that click-to-run installations are automatically updated and do not require manual intervention. However, if you want to check the latest version information for your click-to-run installation, you can do so by clicking Update Options and then View Updates.

If you're unsure whether you're using a click-to-run version of Office, you can check by clicking the File tab in Outlook and then selecting Office Account. By default, click-to-run installations are automatically updated, but the following updates only apply to Office clients installed using a particular method.

This article will be updated regularly to reflect new updates as they become available. For more information on recent Outlook updates, refer to the relevant sections below:

* To find links to the most recent cumulative and public updates for Microsoft Office, see Office updates.

* Other language versions of Outlook may have updates that differ from those listed in this article.

The information contained in this article applies only to U.S. versions of Outlook.

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