Did you know that Outlook may be used as an RSS feed reader? And that you can get new posts to come either directly to your email or to a separate RSS Feeds folder? Here’s how you do it:

1. On the internet, find the blog you would like to follow. Find the RSS Feed link to the blog and click on it. On the BranchingOut blog, this is located along the right side of the Welcome page and is called “Entries RSS.”
   

2. Copy the URL at the top of the new page that opens up. It should contain the word “feed.”
   

3. Now, leave the blog and open up Outlook. Find the RSS Feeds folder in the list of folders along the right side. Right click on the folder and choose the “Add a New RSS Feed…” option.
   

4. A box will pop up for you to paste the RSS feed URL. Paste the URL the you had previously copied, and hit the Add button.
   

5. Another box will pop up asking you to confirm that you would like to add this feed to Outlook.
   

6. At this point you have two options:

   1. Add the feed to the RSS Feeds folder where you can go in and check it at your leisure. If your feed contains posts that you have not read the blog title will be in bold with the number of unread posts indicated by a number.
      For this option, simply click on “Yes.”

   2. The second option is to add the feed so that new posts go directly to Inbox. For this option, you must click on “Advanced.” This will bring up another box giving you the choice of folders to which your feed may go. Clicking on “Change Folder” allows you to choose to which Outlook folder you wish your blog feed to go. Click on it
      Up pops another box with options to change the folder to which your blog feed goes. Choose the Inbox in order to get new blog posts to come directly to your email.
      
      And hit OK.And hit OK again. Then hit Yes. You have now added a blog feed that will go directly to your Outlook email inbox.