To troubleshoot a winmail.dat and lost attachments issue, I wanted to verify that the email properties for certain contacts hasn’t been set to “Send using Outlook Rich Text Format” as described in Email attachments disappear when sent to others.

However, this method doesn’t seem to apply to Outlook 2016 and neither does the Outlook 2010 method.

Where did they hide this option in recent versions of Outlook?

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Sometimes it is hard to keep up with all the news I receive from all my RSS feeds (I've got quite a few subscriptions). I find myself cycling through all the folders to see if there is something new in there.

The blue Unread Items notification is not of much help as I don't read all the entries of each and every RSS feed.

Is there a way I can for instance just see today's RSS items that I haven't read?

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When I press the Send/Receive button on the Quick Access Toolbar in Outlook, the Send/Receive dialog opens and collects emails for my POP3 and IMAP account but it doesn’t show my Outlook.com (Exchange) account.

How can I include the Exchange account as well?

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I’ve configured Outlook.com to collect emails from another account of mine via POP3.

While this works without issues, it really takes a long time before new emails of this POP3 account actually become available in Outlook.com.

Is there a way to configure how often Outlook.com checks for new emails for configured POP3 accounts, force a manual send/receive or anything else to increase the speed to receive new emails?

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I know how to Categorize a message that I have received or once I have sent it; There is a big Categorize button for that on the Ribbon.

However, when I compose a message, this command is not available on the Ribbon. It is available when creating a new Appointment, Meeting or Contact.

Why is this button not available and how can I Categorize a message before sending it?

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I wanted to uninstall an Outlook update but when I follow the instructions to uninstall the updates via Control Panel, I don’t see any Office updates listed there.

I’m using Office 365 Home Premium, which is updated automatically via the cloud and not Windows Update if I’m not mistaken.

Can I also uninstall updates then?

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What are the sending limits for an Outlook.com account?

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Upon starting Outlook I receive the following error;

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR80.dll was not found.
Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

I reinstalled Outlook but that did not solve it. How can I recover?

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I’ve accidentally deleted a message which I liked to keep and since I have Outlook set to empty delete the Deleted Items folder upon closing Outlook, I can’t restore it from there anymore either.

I do make frequent backups of my pst-file, however, I do not want to lose any of my new emails which I’ve received or sent since creating that backup.

Is there any way to recover just that single message or the folder containing the message from my backup?

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When I type or paste an URL in my message in Outlook on the Web (OWA), some sort of preview is sometimes added with a logo and a description of the website or a still image of a YouTube video.

It looks OK but unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t work and sometimes it is being added in the middle of my sentence after I’ve added an URL which is very awkward to say the least.

I now have the following questions about this feature;

• How can I fix the links that didn’t turn into Link Previews?
• How can I remove a Link Preview I don’t want?
• How can I disable the Link Preview feature completely?

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