Saving an Appointment or Meeting as ics-file by using Drag & Drop

Saving an Appointment or Meeting as ics-file by using Drag & Drop

When I drag and drop an Appointment or Meeting from my Calendar into a File Explorer window or another messages, this Calendar item is being saved as an msg-file.

While this might make sense for saving emails, I’d rather save my Calendar items as ics-files.

Can I somehow change the drag & drop format for Calendar items to ics-files?

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Migrating Outlook pst-data to Outlook.com

Migrating Outlook pst-data to Outlook.com

I’m currently using Outlook with a POP3 account but I’d like to switch over to an Outlook.com account.

I’ve set Outlook.com to download all the new mail for my old POP3 account (actually, I’ve set my old account to forward to Outlook.com as this appears to be faster) and configured my Outlook.com account in Outlook. This all works great and as expected.

How do I migrate all the mails which I had already downloaded via POP3 into an Outlook pst-file to my Outlook.com mailbox?

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Receiving meeting invitations and updates for my manager

Receiving meeting invitations and updates for my manager

I’ve been granted access to the Calendar of my manager. However, now I’m being bombarded with meeting invitations and responses for my manager as well.

How can I stop this and only receive my own invitations again?

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Exporting or backing up my complete Calendar as an ics-file

Exporting or backing up my complete Calendar as an ics-file

I used to be able to export my Calendar as an ics-file but now when I start the Import and Export Wizard, I only see an option to export it as a csv-file or pst-file.

I’d really prefer using the ics-file format as it is much easier to use as a backup or for other people to import so they can see my availability.

How can I save my Calendar as an ics-file again?

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Account Setup fails for Outlook.com accounts

Account Setup fails for Outlook.com accounts

When I try to add my Outlook.com account to Outlook via the Auto Account Setup wizard, I get several additional password prompts and finally the following error:

An encrypted connection to your mail server is not available.
Click Next to attempt using an unencrypted connection.

That process eventually also fails and I'm asked to verify my email address (which is correct) or set it up manually.

How do I do that and can't Outlook really configure itself with Outlook.com?

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Add addresses from the Auto-Complete cache to my Address Book as actual contacts

Add addresses from the Auto-Complete cache to my Address Book as actual contacts

For most emails, I tend to rely on the Auto-Complete feature of Outlook to address the emails instead of using the Address Book.

I just noticed that for most of my contacts, I don’t even have them actually stored in my Contacts folder.

Is there any way to export the addresses from the Auto-Complete cache and import them into my Contacts folder?

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Clickable index (TOC) in emails to jump to a later section within the email

Clickable index (TOC) in emails to jump to a later section within the email

I regularly need to send out emails which discusses multiple topics (an internal newsletter) and found out that topics as the bottom are regularly overlooked as people don’t tend to scroll down all the way.

I therefor want these email messages to contains an index at top with links people can click on which takes them directly to that section within the email. This would be similar to inserting a Table of Contents (TOC) in Word.

Can I create such indexes within emails as well?

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Mail Merge filter based on Categories

Mail Merge filter based on Categories

When doing a Mail Merge in Word, I can see all my Outlook contacts. In most cases, I can apply some filters to easily select the contacts I need but I can't seem to be able to filter based on Categories that I have assigned the contacts to.

Is there any way to do this?

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Sharing or forwarding lots of emails to someone

Sharing or forwarding lots of emails to someone

I’m leaving a project and therefor need to transfer the email history, some including attachments, of that project to someone else.

Is there a way to do this without having to forward them individually?

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Address envelopes and letters with Outlook contact data

Address envelopes and letters with Outlook contact data

I've tried a couple of times to create envelopes in Word for Outlook contacts (for which I've entered addresses) but every time I try, I end up clicking around a lot without any satisfactory result.

This seems like a core functionality of Outlook though, which shouldn’t be too hard and quickly to repeat so I must be doing something wrong here.

Could you walk me through the process of creating envelopes?

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