Questions tagged [microsoft-outlook]
Email client, calendar/appointment manager and address book/contacts list software. Not to be confused with outlook.com, the new name/interface for Hotmail.
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Outlook's autocomplete isn't working for only a couple of addresses
So I'm following this article to get autocomplete working:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/contacts/autocomplete-not-working-correctly-in-outlook-2010#if-you-have-a-microsoft-...
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Tracing Office-365 Outlook invite updates in a Hybrid environment
My Project manager recently sent a "In-Person" mandatory meeting invite (Office 365 Outlook) and then later made a small change to the Details of the Meeting. I don't think they chose to ...
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How do you change Amazon SES access key for SMTP client / Microsoft Outlook?
I was trying to change my outbound SMTP password (after the LastPass breach). I set it up a while back using Amazon SES but now working with this sucker is anything but easy.
So I logged in to the ...
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Modify OneNote page template when sending from Outlook
When using the send to OneNote Feature from Outlook calendar a specific template is used by default. It adds the same information you can input by using the meeting details by hand.
Is there a way to ...
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How can I copy an existing MS Outlook element (mail, calender entry) into a new element?
In IBM Notes there is a function "Copy into new" that can be applied to existing e-mails, calendar entries etc. This is very handy when you want send a mail similar to one you have already ...
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Remove a shared email mailbox from outlook?
My boss likes to have the inboxes of former employees shared with him in case they receive any emails that are important to current projects.
Recently he just asked me to remove a few of these ...
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Message Trace Reason
After the meeting was created and the rooms were selected, no message about the event was delivered.
Message Trace result : Reason: [Stage: OnCreatedEvent][Agent: Meeting Message Processing Agent];...
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Drag and drop attachments from Outlook on Windows to Chrome Browser no longer available
I used to be able to upload documents onto Sharepoint by dragging from the email on Outlook to Chrome.
Recently, a greyed-out disabled mouse shows up on Chrome when I try to drop it.
My work revolves ...
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Filter Outlook calendar based on status of individual occurrence in meeting series
In Microsoft Outlook (Microsoft 365 app), I want to use Filters on my Calendar page to exclude recurring meetings when I haven't accepted the series, but still show individual occurrences of the ...
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Microsoft Outlook 2016: How to change default numbered and bullet list styles?
At my company, we use Microsoft Outlook 2016.
I was able to change my default font face and size using this answer: How to change the Body font in Outlook
However, I don't how to change the default ...
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Lost Teams button in new calendar event screen in desktop Outlook
When scheduling a new Outlook meeting, I used to have a button to make it a Teams call. Pressing the button would automatically populate the body with Team call info. Now I don't see this button ...
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Macbook Pro - Outlook ver 16: Importing OLM into main Folder
I am trying to import a huge OLM backup file from an old MacBook Pro to a new one for a client and am running into a slight issue...
I am able to import into Outlook, however it creates an Archived ...
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Microsoft Word Mail Merge Not Keeping Text Formatting When Sending Emails
For example, in Word I will have a message formatted like this:
Dear x
Paragraph 1.
Paragraph 2.
Paragraph 3.
Regards,
y
But after sending the email through Outlook, the text appears like this:
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outlook command won't return prompt
So I'm writing a cmd script so I can open some programs on a double click. It looks like this:
:: Open Logbook
code "\\wsl$\path\to\the\logbook" | exit 0
:: Open Firefox
"C:\Program ...
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See recipient's email address in Outlook Sent folder instead of their name
I found a solution for this problem in my inbox but it didn't seem to work the same in my Sent folder, presumably because something in the code needs to change
Outlook 365: Display full email address ...
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Is it possible to fine-tune Focused vs Other in Outlook 365?
I understand that we can toggle the destination (Focused vs Other) of emails from a certain sender.
For example, How to configure which emails show up in my Focused Inbox in Outlook?
Do we (as users) ...
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How do I fix my Hotmail background color?
I want Hotmail (on Chrome) to be dark, but it now this unexpectedly these weird light grayd, and making a new message changes the background as I type.
I believe I changed some color setting in ...
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Dark mode settings are missing in Outlook
The 2 usual places for dark mode settings aren't available in my outlook install. Usually there's the option under File->Options->General->Personalize, or found in File->Office Account but ...
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outlook 365 - restore from backup file and only IMAP synchronize recent emails
I have a web email account with over 100,000 emails, and about 30 folders dating back 18 years.
I created an Outlook .pst backup of the account from my old computer which was running Outlook 2010, and ...
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How to setup a rule in Outlook Web Access, for automatically moving mail which contains multiple words into a specific folder?
In Outlook Web Access (OWA), one can setup rules which are applied to all inbound mail, for automatically sorting those mail into specific folders. It seems to be easy to configure a rule which ...
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Microsoft Outlook displays email images too large
When I insert a screen shot image into an HTML email it's too big, and when I view someone else's screen shots, they are too big.
For example
The first image below is a screen shot from my 20-inch ...
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Lost emails at hoster
It sounds unbelievable but my hoster (a large European hoster) lost all my mails. Some days ago to any reason he changed the IMAP and SMTP server address and my mails including folder structure ...
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Ruled emails in Outlook still trigger alert when replied to from an email chain
At my company, I receive emails from multiple office locations. I have successfully filtered out emails from another states office via Rules in Outlook.
I accomplished this by using the states ...
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Can't login to Office 365 Account on Outlook 2019 using EnableADAL 0
Recently reinstalled Windows 10 and have been setting up my email accounts on Outlook 2019.
Managed to login fine with both of my Outlook accounts (@hotmail, @live) as well as my university's o365 ...
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Delete emails from a list of different senders in Outlook
I need to delete a few thousand emails from various senders in my inbox, I have a list of all the senders in excel, is there anyway I can do this rather than have to manually sort and delete the ...
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Outlook: Is there a button/method to "Reply to Some"?
Is there any way to have or create a button/action to "Reply to Some" on emails?
Specifically, I want to Reply to the Sender and include the CC line, but I do not want to include the other ...
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How to remove Paste Options from the right click (context) menu in Outlook?
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016. Windows 8.1
To remove "paste options" from right click menu in Outlook, I've already made the de-selection in the File Options Mail Editor Options ...
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Outlook automatically set shared mailbox address for sending new mail
I'm unable to create a new e-mail when selecting the Inbox folder on a shared mailbox.
Example: [email protected] has full access on mailbox [email protected].
If I reply an e-mail, it will choose user@...
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Additional Quick step Keyboard Shortcuts
Use a lot of keyboard shortcuts through Quick step actions. This lets me sort incoming mail into folders pretty quickly. Limit of course is I can only assign 9 of them. Which is a little limiting.
You'...
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Outlook VBA - go to specific public folder wthout giving the complete folder name
I usually need to go to some specific folders to see the containing emails.
These folders are in Outlook exchange public folders.
I have managed to write a script that I can enter the full name of the ...
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When a user opens outlook desktop application they get an error 400 browser webpage that pops up
When a user opens an outlook desktop application, they get an error 400 browser webpage that pops up. Not sure if this is related to some new thing that Microsoft is trying to push or what.
Screenshot ...
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Outlook new email notification banner - can't figure out how to silence
I appreciate how many alerts I can turn off, but there's one I still can't figure out. I use the Focused folder, which is a great help. But if another email arrives, I get a notification like the one ...
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Outlook 2013 won't start except Exchange Cache Mode is active
I do have a strange problem:
Yesterday I logged off from my RDS 2012 R2 session. until that point I had no issues with Outlook.
Today I logged into a new RDS 2012 R2 session and tried to start Outlook....
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How do I set a rule that moves emails sent to a distribution group I'm part of over to a folder?
How do I go about setting this up? I've tried setting a To condition and then typing the distribution list address but it didn't work. I'm guessing it's because To is for emails I've sent?
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Dovecot expunge all emails marked as deleted regardless of folder
I have asked the following question elsewhere on StackExchange, and I was pointed here as the best place to ask the question.
The response said that I need to use doveadm which is what I expected. ...
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Can I delete organization event from my calendar without affecting their event?
I have found an event in my Outlook calendar as in the attachment (I omitted the details of the event). I will not attend this event. Is it safe to delete it from my calendar or will this operation ...
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Outlook 365 Web showing wrong count of contacts
The count of my contacts in the outlook web interface (outlook.office.com/people/) is wrong. When I select all contacts (ctrl + a or check the "your contacts" checkbox on top of the list), ...
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Outlook email rule, Search table in body then move to folder
I want to create an outlook rule were it checks the body of the email which has a table in it. It needs to check the top two cells of a 2 column table. As long as those match a specific text then move ...
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Office 365: Get a recurring report of all of the email addresses a company has been in contact with
I've been scratching my head on this one... I can't seem to figure out a solution. The purpose for this is that every month the list of email addresses get uploaded into Mailchimp, and Mailchimp sends ...
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make outlook use restricted view on spam messages also after moving to deleted items folder
i'm using outlook 16.0 as part of the microsoft 365 subscription.
currently i'm on version 2210.
spam messages are moved to the "junk email" folder.
those messages are getting displayed in ...
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Need automated feedback on email groups for non-technical users
Here's the situation: my church has a bunch of groups, each one led by a different person. Let's take as an example the choir.
Right now, we've got an Outlook email group set up "[email protected]&...
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OST file becoming corrupted repeatedly in Outlook 2019
We have a mailbox that's approximately 55 GB in size, which seems to work fine on one PC with Office 365 after increasing max OST file size. Another PC on the other hand is running Office 2019 and the ...
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Can't connect to Microsoft Teams
I have a new computer that periodically fails to connect to Microsoft Teams. When this happens I am also unable to connect via Outlook. As a temporary fix, if I restart the computer I am able to ...
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Outlook - Recurring Meeting X days before 1st Monday of Each Month?
I see that there's a way to create a recurring meeting on the first/second/third/fourth weekday of each month, but I was wondering if there was a way to add in relative time to this.
For example, if I ...
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Add categories to Outlook calendar hover preview
Is it possible to add categories to the hover preview in outlook calendar.
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Format painter Outlook on the web versus the desktop
Shortcuts for format painter in Outlook include Shift+ Ctrl+ C and Shift+Ctrl+ V as well as Alt+H+F+P but none of these work, from my experience, for Outlook web application.
Going into “Settings > ...
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Outlook Office 365: Encrypt all outgoing messages
According to this:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/encrypt-email-messages-373339cb-bf1a-4509-b296-802a39d801dc#ID0EBBD=Newer_versions
When you choose to encrypt all outgoing messages by ...
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Inject HTML code into Outlook email
Is there an even easier (or maybe a little more user-friendly) way to inject a few lines of HTML source code into an Outlook email, than using a macro like shown over there:
Edit the HTML source code ...
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Unable to connect Gmail to Outlook pst file using pop3
My Outlook stopped connecting to Gmail using pop3.
I'm using Outlook 2016.
This is after the unwanted Gmail security change...
I really could use a solve here.
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Rule for combination of email adresses
Currently trying to set-up some rules to manage email more efficiently. In this case I'd like to move emails automatically whenever they are sent to a specific set of collegues I'm in a seperate ...