Create a striking subject with symbol characters

Create a striking subject with symbol characters

To put some additional attention to my email, I’d like to add some shape characters to the subject line such as a star or heart.

Is this possible and if so, which shapes are supported in the email subject line?

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Backing up and Restoring Quick Steps

Backing up and Restoring Quick Steps

I’ve created quite a few Quick Steps in Outlook 2013 on my Windows 7 computer with various template replies and actions. I now have a new Windows 11 computer with Outlook 365 on it.

How do I copy the Quick Steps from one computer to the other?

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Access or share non-default Outlook folders

Access or share non-default Outlook folders

A colleague of mine has given me permissions to access a couple of his sub folders and an additional Contacts folder that he created.

When I use File-> Open & Export-> Other User’s folders, I can only choose between Outlook’s default folders, but not any that he created himself.

How can I access these shared folders?

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Reduce ost file size with Synchronization Filters

Reduce ost file size with Synchronization Filters

As a mobile user, I love it that I can also cache other user's shared folders and Public Folder Favorites.

However, some of these users are true packrats and some of these Public Folder Favorites are huge archives. The result is that my ost-file is really large (nearing 20GB) and makes my laptop slow since it doesn't have a high performance SSD drive. I'm also starting to run out of disk space as I only have a 120GB disk in my laptop.

Aside from investing in a fast new disk or telling my colleagues to clean up, what else can I do?

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Increase the maximum attachment size limit

Increase the maximum attachment size limit

When I try to send a message with some attachments, I get the warning that my message is too big to be sent.

How can I increase the attachment size limit?

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Views don’t save the Group By expand/collapse state

Views don’t save the Group By expand/collapse state

I organize my Contacts folder by Category. Each time when I access that folder, every Category group is expanded, no matter how carefully I compress the Category groups or arrange them.

I prefer to have some Category groups always expanded and others always collapsed.

Is there any way to keep these Category groups collapsed?

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Remove underline and changing hyperlinks color

Remove underline and changing hyperlinks color

By default, whenever I create a hyperlink, Outlook turns the text color into blue and underlines it.

This is of course very recognizable but also not very modern as most web designs no longer underline hyperlinks. I’m also simply a bit bored with the blue.

Is there any way I can remove this default underline and change the color into for instance our company's color (green)?

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Changing the name of an Outlook.com mailbox in Outlook 2013

Changing the name of an Outlook.com mailbox in Outlook 2013

I’ve added my Outlook.com mailbox to Outlook 2013 as an Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) account. In the Navigation Pane, the display mailbox of the mailbox is the full email address of my Outlook.com account.

Because my email address is quite long, it gets truncated with “…”. Preferably, I just want it to show my first name since it is my personal account.

Is there any way I can rename or otherwise shorten this mailbox name?

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Send mail from an additional Exchange address or alias

Send mail from an additional Exchange address or alias

I've got a single Exchange mailbox which holds multiple email addresses. I can receive mail sent to any of these addresses just fine, but I cannot find a way to choose which address to send out with.

I've tried setting the From field with another address but that got automatically replaced with my default address or a bounce message saying that I don't have permission to do so.

How can I send out a message with one of my mailbox aliases?

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Outlook.com account doesn’t sync Drafts folder (this computer only)

Outlook.com account doesn't sync Drafts folder (this computer only)

I’ve added my Outlook.com account as an Exchange Active Sync (EAS) account to Outlook.

All folders synched except for the Drafts folder which appears as “Drafts (This computer only)”.

How can I make it sync and use the Drafts folder of Outlook.com?

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