Using wildcards to block Junk E-mail domains

Using wildcards to block Junk E-mail domains

There is a domain which continues to send me Junk E-mail but they change the first part of their email address each time and sometimes also the subdomain.

Sadly, the Outlook Junk E-mail Filter doesn’t capture these emails automatically yet. I see options to safe list the Sender’s Domain but not to block the Sender’s Domain.

Is there a way that I can block all emails coming from this domain via wildcards or something similar?

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Edit, add or remove words from the Custom Dictionary

Edit, add or remove words from the Custom Dictionary

I've added a couple of wrongly spelled words to the custom dictionary by mistake.

How can I remove them again?

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Highlight important text in emails

Highlight important text in emails

I received an email which had some text highlighted in yellow (like you can do with a magic marker on paper).

How can I do the same in Outlook?

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Vote for the best meeting day and location

Vote for the best meeting day and location

I'm trying to plan a meeting but it seems not everybody liked the day that I picked originally. I've now got several alternatives and I would like people to vote on the meeting days and times that are available and then pick the one with the most votes.

Is there any way I can create a "vote for meeting" invitation in Outlook?

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What is stored in the ost-file and why is it larger or smaller than my mailbox?

What is stored in the ost-file and why is it larger or smaller than my mailbox?

We have a maximum mailbox size of 10GB and I’m currently using 7GB of it. However, when I look at my ost-file, I see that it is over 12GB in size.

What accounts for this difference and how can I make my ost-file smaller?

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Open OWA messages in a new tab instead of a pop-up window

Open OWA messages in a new tab instead of a pop-up window

When I open a message in Outlook Web Access (OWA) via a double click or create a new message, this message is opened in a separate window.

This basically "detaches" it from the current browser window and makes it hard to find back when I switch between applications.

Can I open it in a new tab instead so that I can group all my OWA activity together?

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Flagged a message for Follow Up but I’m not getting a reminder

Flagged a message for Follow Up but I’m not getting a reminder

I've flagged several messages for Follow Up but unless I also specify a reminder time myself, I do not get any reminder at all. When using the Today, Tomorrow, This Week or Next Week flags, the item does not show a "bell" icon either.

How can I automatically set reminders on flagged items?

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Changing the display name of a mailbox or pst-file

Changing the display name of a mailbox or pst-file

When I look at my Outlook folder list on the left, I see most of my mailboxes are named after the email addresses that they receive emails for. I also have a pst-file that is called “My Outlook Data File”.

These names are quite long and thus get truncated unless I widen the Folder Pane. Especially since some of my mailboxes only differ in the domain part, I prefer to shorten or otherwise customize these mailbox names.

How can I change the names for my mailboxes and pst-file?

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Configuring message rules for a shared mailbox

Configuring message rules for a shared mailbox

Other than my own mailbox, I’ve also got access to some additional shared mailboxes within our company.

We are using Exchange and I have been granted access to these mailboxes but when I create a message rule, to for instance move specific emails to another folder, it only seems to apply to messages that are address to me and not to the shared mailbox.

How can I set up a rule for a shared mailbox?

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Color Categories in shared Contacts folders

Color Categories in shared Contacts folders

I’ve created an additional Contacts folder within my Exchange mailbox which I share with the rest of my team.

This works great but some can’t see the Color Categories which I have assigned to the Contacts. I can’t see the difference in the permissions I’ve given them and I’ve even gone as far as giving everybody Owner permissions but some still can’t see the Color Categories.

What permissions do I need to assign so that everybody can see the color coding of the contacts within the shared Contacts folder?

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