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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Exclude PSTs from Windows Desktop Search Indexing in Windows 10 when they are not open in Outlook 365
Win10/22H2/O365 2302. I have about a dozen PST files that I do not want Windows Desktop Search to index, to keep the index EDB a reasonable size. Historically, I thought WDS did not index PSTs unless ...
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How to see my notes in Outlook grouped by my folders?
Microsoft changed Outlook UI again. Previously I had all my storages and subfolders, including mails, caledar items, notes and etc shown hierarchically at the left pane. Now it is broken. It shows ...
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Can I add domain for Microsoft 365 Basic subscription? [closed]
Ì'm thinking of moving my domain from Google to outlook.com and I'm confused if it will be allowed to add domain to my subscription or if it just is for outlook.com users.
Add an existing domain to ...
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Get cell value from Outlook/Exchange address book into Excel
There is a document for use in an employee performance review. A manager and employee are named on the form.
I have used a drop-down list to select a name and =VLOOKUP() to get the email address and ...
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In Outlook, how would you schedule a reoccurring meeting for the Sunday following the first Wednesday of the month?
I want to create a reoccurring appointment that takes place on the Sunday following the first Wednesday of the month. I will likely just create each one manually but was optimistic that someone might ...
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Outlook keeps trying to add my licensee account as an email
As of a couple weeks ago, the Outlook desktop program (installed from Office365) keeps complaining that it couldn't find a work or school account matching my personal hotmail address. Thing is, I don'...
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Have Thunderbird prompt for password at startup for office 365 outlook accounts?
I have unfortunately been forced by work to use an Microsoft Outlook / Office 365 e-mail address.
Usually, in Thunderbird on Windows, I used to have normal IMAP e-mail, and I had Thunderbird setup to ...
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Create Gmail IMAP account on Outlook, buttons to allow access grayed out
I am using Outlook 2019 desktop app. It is very intelligent in that when I add an account to a profile and specify that it is Google, it comes up with the right IMAP ports and protocols. Google then ...
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Can't Assign Outlook Retention Policy
We have a [email protected] email account which we use for our apps and services for sending emails to clients. Last week, all the emails stopped going out because the mailbox was full (...
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Gmail Server not accescepting mails form sendmail
I am tring to send email using sendmail app via aws SES system. The outlook server easly accepts the email request but gmail server dosen't. can someone help me with wrong in this. Thnakyou.
here are ...
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Setup an alert email for multiple similar inbound emails within a short timeframe
Don't know if this is the right place for this question. But hopeful for some answers or ideas.
The situation:
We set up some forms that send us emails on multiple website with support questions.
So ...
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Does the Outlook 365 UI in Cached Exchange Mode periodically lock up for everyone with a spotty Internet connection?
I spend a lot of time in Outlook in-flight where the connection is spotty. For years, I've noticed the UI often freezes for several seconds, sometimes longer, if it loses connection with Exchange ...
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Best way to embed calendar invites links in the body of an email
We use Microsoft 365.
One of our departments wants to send emails to people outside our organization. The body of the emails will contain a lot of information about different meetings and activities ...
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Outlook is removing message prefixes on listserv messages, how to make it NOT do this?
We are using Mailman3 to provide lists for some users. Unfortunately, we have a small problem.
When the email is sent from the List, it gets a prefix, a-la [List-0000003] appended based on the ...
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how to find two exclamation marks in outlook subject
I inherited an old programming where it sends email alert
The only keyword that I need to filter from all the other email is two exclamation marks
Is there a way to search in outlook for two ...
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Unread email count next to account name
Is it possible to somehow show the number of unread emails from inbox next to the account?
At the moment this number is only shown next to the folder.
Atm I have to go through every single one of them,...
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Outlook conditional formatting for number of attendees
How to colour code one-to-one meetings in the Outlook calendar?
I can't find a field in the conditional formatting list of fields that is "number of attendees".
Ideally the rule should be if ...
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Flagged Emails' Body Being Deleted
so I have a customer that flags emails as a to-do/follow up tasks in Outlook 365 Desktop. This is completely random but sometimes when an email is flagged it will just delete the body of the email ...
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MS Outlook autocorrect (Office 365)
I'm using Outlook on Windows 10 and Office 365 for Small business. My default language is Slovenian (SI).
When I start writing a new message the default language is SI and when I write in English ...
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Move all email from one folder in Outlook to another
I can't figure out how to move all emails from a folder that I created a long time ago back to the inbox. I have there over a thousand emails. I tried to select all emails, but drag and drop didn't ...
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How do I not show my Avatar Picture in Every Microsoft Office App?
How do I not show my Avatar in every app? I just don't want to see it, only my name. Don't want to look at icon photo all day. Is there a way to hide remove the picture in upper right? Deleting the ...
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Outlook power user rules without elevated permissions
I recently made the switch to the new Office 365 Outlook app redesign, and I'm encountering difficulties in setting up advanced email rules that take into account the context of email threads, such as ...
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Create Microsoft Outlook calendar invite from Microsoft Teams meeting link
Is it possible to create a calendar event for Microsoft Outlook from the link for a Microsoft Teams meeting? For example, if I receive an email with information about joining a meeting (meeting time, ...
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Outlook Windows client: Inline reply format looks good in editor but gets wrong after sent
See the email before sending out:
After I sent it to myself it became this:
In Options > Mail > Replies and forwards I have this:
Any idea how to make it work?
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How do I make calendar entries for a Microsoft 365 dynamic group appear in the member's individual calendars?
I have a Microsoft 365 dynamic group with a number of calendar items in it. If a member views the group calendar in Outlook they can see the items but this requires them to manually select the ...
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Outlook 365 online, Outlook online, creating folders: View contents of subfolder in parent folder for team emails
I am super new to MS, windows and Office since I worked in Apple my whole life. here is my goal which I could do in Apple mail, thunder mail and others.
Folder My sales team.
Subfolders
Bill, jack, ...
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outlook.office.com - 500 Something went wrong. Repeating redirects detected
When I try to log in to Outlook I get the current message:
500 Something went wrong. Repeating redirects detected.
Then:
We couldn't sign you in. Please try again.
Tried with different browsers, ...
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Outlook 365 desktop - Unread Mail folder - mark selected emails as read and some disappear
Viewing emails listed in Unread Mail, I select a few similar emails and mark as read with Ctrl+Q. Some of those emails then disappear from this view. They're still there in the inbox, etc. but ...
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Open Message in New Outlook Window
I'm using the "New Look" Outlook and when I select a message in the Inbox and hit Enter, nothing happens. How do I open the message in a new window?
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Copy email as document link in Outlook
I'm using the "New Look" Outlook on Windows 11 and selecting an email in the Inbox and hitting Ctrl+C no longer copies the email as a document that can be pasted into other Office programs. ...
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Merge all Outlook inboxes in search
I found a useful tutorial for combining the inboxes of all email accounts at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8m6HorjaNA
It cleverly operates by running a search for "folder:inbox received:today&...
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How do I move the ribbon and menu to same level in Outlook 365?
To save space I want to move the menu to the title bar where search box and other icons are there. How do I do that?
It is Windows 11 with Office 365.
Please advice.
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In Outlook how do I schedule a recurring meeting for every Thursday and every other Tuesday?
In Outlook I can use the recurring meetings feature to make one meeting series that occurs every Tuesday and Thursday, for example. But I need it to be every Thursday, but only every second Tuesday. ...
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Disable Reminders from a Shared Outlook Calander
Is there a way to disable reminders from a shared calendar in Outlook while leaving reminders on for other Outlook calendars?
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Are there any side effects in using email message forwarding as some sort of templating?
I need to have a certain number of email message templates but, at the current stage of the email client I'm using (Microsoft Outlook 365 as a PWA), there is no way to obtain this feature without ...
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Can't start Outlook desktop client - "The set of folders cannot be opened"
I've gone to load Outlook this morning, and I am presented with this. I can't load into safe mode, and I don't know which folder it can't open as it doesn't tell me.
Version is 16.0
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What is Outlook version 1.2023? Does it support MAPI?
Our program will invoke MAPI in Outlook to perform tasks.
Today one of our customers said our program cannot work with his Outlook, and he give the Outlook version as below:
I have never seen such an ...
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Using Windows 11 Home and Outlook Version 2308 and Office 365 how do I setup an address list to search in?
I am trying to set up an OOC message to reply to all messages except from a group.io message.
I succeeded in setting up the Alert but when I try to set up the exception address from group.io I am ...
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How can I group emails with same subject in Outlook
I'm sending myself emails as notifications thruogh smtp, all with the same subject. I try to make them group into one but outlook fails to group them as conversitions while gmail does.
Outlook, not ...
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Text printed-to-pdf and copied-pasted back gets totally scrambled
Can anybody explain why my (admittedly absurd) following text is getting scrambled:
"A sticky offbeat platform lift is often better than a cliffhanger fjord like Loefke.".
I have entered ...
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Using countifs with more than one condition using references not values
Am trying to apply the countifs function to two columns of my data sheet with two different conditions to meet (one for each column) using cell references in the criteria. The following syntax has ...
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Can't make all user book resource in Room mailbox
I cannot understand why i cannot make reservation like normal user, when in setting of Room, i specified "Book delegates --> Accept or decline booking request automatically"
When I tried ...
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Outlook Keeps Popping Up Download History When Downloading Attachment
When I download an attachment in Outlook, the app will pop-up the "Download History" Window away from my Outlook window, sometimes on my second monitor. In those cases I am unable to close ...
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How to slow down scrolling in the mail list in Outlook (.exe) to one line per mouse wheel notch
The mouse is already set to one line per mouse notch in the Windows Control Panel settings. Nevertheless (and only in Outlook), the mail list scrolls three lines per notch. Moreover, the scrolling is ...
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Using Outlook, is there a way to create a Search Folder for specific people that I tag as my favorites?
in Outlook I have dozens of people tagged as my "Favorites". Is there a way to create a search folder for just them so I don't miss any emails that get sent from them? Using the latest ...
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Plain-text replies with greater-than in Outlook PWA
In my organisation, accessing mail from Linux computers is possible with the Chrome Outlook progressive web app.
With the Windows version of Outlook it is possible to set the reply option to always ...
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How to simplify identical events in multiple Outlook calendars?
The simplest case of the problem is a work calendar and a personal/family calendar that have some events in common, but not all. I want to see both calendars at the same time, but not the multiple ...
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Outlook email forwarding not working
Exactly as reported here, which is locked and cannot be replied. Hence asking it here instead.
Outlook.com forwarding setting disappears. I re-establish forwarding setting, it keeps disappearing. ...
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Outlook: Is it possible to define a filter rule comparing a number in a header field?
In the mail I receive in Outlook, some service provider has set up a SPAM filter with a comparatively low level, tagging the subject with [SPAM] when the message is not SPAM in several cases.
In the ...
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Outlook: Create auto reply using the "Reply-to" email address
I currently receive emails from my wordpress form. The emails come from my email address. Included in the email is a reply-to email address and I want to setup an auto reply that will use that address....