I regularly set an “Expire after” date on a message so they can automatically be cleaned up when they become irrelevant. My colleagues also do that on time-sensitive messages that they send to me.
When they expire, they will show with a strikethrough font, but is it also possible to highlight or find all messages which have an expiration date set?
I just noticed that I could drag & drop files (doc, docx, xls, pdf, png, etc...) directly into Outlook folders. Basically this would allow me to use Outlook as a single storage location for as long as I have space in my mailbox, instead of saving these files separately in Explorer.
Are there any downsides to this method and is this actually even supported by Microsoft?
Lately I’m having some sync issues with my mailbox. For instance, I see several new emails in my mailbox when I login to webmail which I don’t see in Outlook.
Also, it looks like the entire month of June has gone missing in Outlook but the emails are luckily still available on the server.
Is there any way to get Outlook to sync or download these emails again?
When I upgrade to Windows 8.1, which versions of Outlook are supported on it?
I have a recurring appointment scheduled in Outlook for which I update the subject and message body of each occurrence to more accurately describe or report the purpose of that particular occurrence.
Unfortunately, when I do a search, Outlook can’t seem to find any of the text within these exceptions even though it is perfectly capable of finding the recurring item itself or anything else.
How can I do a query to find back any of these exceptions?
We need to perform an action in Outlook as an administrator. I logged on as the administrator of the computer, but I still can’t perform the action.
How can I start Outlook as an Administrator on Windows 10?
I regularly create manual backups of my pst-files and although it is easy enough, it is quite a lot of clicking to locate and browse to the needed folders.
As I usually do this when shutting down my PC, bringing down the amount of clicks needed to complete this process would encourage me not to skip it.
Is there any way to make it even easier and quicker to backup my pst-files?
When I reply to a somewhat longer email, I find myself scrolling quite a lot between the original message at the bottom and then back up to where I left off writing my reply message.
While you could open the message in its own window and position and resize it in such a way that it sits nicely next to your compose screen so you can read them both, it is a somewhat cumbersome solution.
Did you know that you could split your message compose window directly from within Outlook?
When I’m using Outlook in my Internet browser, I don’t see the Bcc and From field. I’ve found how I can enable it when composing a message but as soon as I send this message and start a new one, the fields are hidden again.
How can I always show the Bcc and From fields when using Outlook on the Web?
I’m having a problem with emails being returned from people I’ve been in contact with for years and I’m very sure they didn’t all just change addresses or that I misspelled them. The error I get is;
550 mail.server.com ESMTP
Connection rejected. Your IP xx.xxx.xxx.xx is in RBL
What does this error mean and how do I fix this?
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