I often have more than one Outlook window open. For instance: the main Outlook window, the Reminders dialog and some emails.

While I could use ALT+TAB to switch between them, the multitude of other application windows which I have open makes it quite cumbersome and also difficult to quickly select the correct one.

Is there an easy way to switch only between the open Outlook windows and messages?

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I’ve exported my contacts from Windows Live Mail on my old computer and now I want to import them into Outlook on my new computer.

The file is in csv-format but when I try to import it into Outlook, I'm being prompted to Map Custom Fields but everything is just on a single line.

How can I import my contacts into Outlook?

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I've created a list of Categories in Outlook which I don't like to lose so I thought about backing them up. Unfortunately I couldn't find an export/import option for this.

How do I backup my Categories and, if possible; can I also copy or restore them to another mail profile?

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I have lots of contacts in Outlook and I’m switching to an Outlook.com account.

I’ve noticed that many of the advanced contact information fields that are available in Outlook are not available in the People section of an Outlook.com account.

For a couple of contacts, I’ve filled out these fields.

What will happen with the information in these fields when I move the contacts to Outlook.com?

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I've got a fair amount of Personal Folder (pst-files) connected in Outlook and I wanted to add another one. When I tried, I got the following error;

"Out of memory or system resources. Close some windows or programs and try again."

My system has lots of memory (4GB) and still plenty of memory free but even after closing all other applications and restarting my computer, I still get the same error.

How can I open more pst-files?

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Ever had multiple windows open of Outlook, had to switch to some other applications and then just want to return to the last window that you had open in Outlook without first needing to go through all the previews?

There is a keyboard shortcut for that in Windows 7 and I find myself using it basically every day so I thought I’d share it for today’s tip.

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When I receive a .doc or .docx attachment in Outlook and double click on it, Word opens it in Reading Layout (two pages side by side) instead of normal mode.

Opening a document outside of Outlook opens it normally inside Word.

Is this a Word issue or a Outlook issue, and how do I fix it?

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I often get a lot of picture attachments. Instead of opening them one by one can I get them to display all at once so I can scroll through them easily or open them as a slideshow?

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Every time I compose a new email, the new message window shows very big letters.

For example, I can only see 6 English words on my 22" monitor. The font I use is Arial size 10. This is very annoying as I just cannot see my message clearly. I have tried to turn off everything in Accessibility and it didn't help. When I read email, then all is normal.

How do I get back to a normal size font again?

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Using your previous tip of the Mini-Translator, I find that I sometimes still need to use the Research Pane to translate the text as the language isn’t always properly recognized.

This isn’t really an issue but selecting the correct “From” language is a bit cumbersome since the list of available languages is so long. The same is true for selecting the correct “To” language which for me basically only is English, Dutch or German.

Is there a way to trim down the list of translation languages to choose from to only the languages that I actually use?

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