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How to Add, Change or Delete an Outlook 2016 for Mac profile

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This article covers creating, deleting or managing profiles in Outlook 2016 for Mac. It may be necessary to create a new profile if there are problems opening Outlook. 

Add a new profile:

  1. From Finder, open the Applications folder

  2. Ctrl+click or right-click Microsoft Outlook, and then click Show Package Contents

  3. Open Contents > SharedSupport, and then double-click Outlook Profile Manager

  4. Click the Create a new profile button Add 

  5. Name the new profile

Delete a new profile:

  1. From Finder, open the Applications folder

  2. Ctrl+click or right-click Microsoft Outlook, and then click Show Package Contents

  3. Open Contents > SharedSupport, and then double-click Outlook Profile Manager

  4. Select the profile that you want to remove

  5. click the Delete the selected profile  button Delete

Rename an existing profile:

  1. From Finder, open the Applications folder

  2. Ctrl+click or right-click Microsoft Outlook, and then click Show Package Contents

  3. Open Contents > SharedSupport, and then double-click Outlook Profile Manager

  4. Double-click the profile

  5. type a new name for the profile

Change the default profile

  1. From Finder, open the Applications folder

  2. Ctrl+click or right-click Microsoft Outlook, and then click Show Package Contents

  3. Open Contents > SharedSupport, and then double-click Outlook Profile Manager

  4. Select the profile that you want as default

  5. click Set the default profile  Action pop-up menu 

  6. click Set as Default

  7. Restart Outlook for this change to take effect