I've got a user who is trying to send an email with an Excel file and a Winzip-file attached to it. When she browses for the files, she can see all the Word and Excel files in the folder, but none of the Winzip files appear, and thus, she can't attach them.
How can she attach a zip-file again?
When starting Outlook, every time I need to go through some installation process before it actually opens. Sometimes this also happens when I open a message or do something else.
Why is Outlook doing this and how can I make it go away?
I just upgraded from Office 2003 to 2007. I attempt to open an Outlook link with file extension XNK, but I receive the following error message:
"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. The command line argument is not valid.
Verify the switch you are using."
How can I sync my Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks in Outlook with my Smartphone and Tablet?
When I'm backing up my pst-file I get an error that tells me that there isn't enough room on the external drive to back up the file.
This cannot be correct; the file is listed as being only about 4.2 GB, and the external drive I'm trying to back it up to has over 31 GB of free space!
Any clue as to what's going on here?
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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?
Several messages in my IMAP account in Outlook have message headers (such as subject and From address) which do not apply to the message body.
The message body appears to be from previous emails, show garbled or can't be downloaded at all. Attachments seem to be affected as well.
Why is this happening and how can I fix these messages?
I personally use Skype as my default IM client and that also integrated with Outlook at home. At work, we use Skype for Business and there Outlook integrates with Skype for Business.
I recently upgraded my home computer to Office 2016 via our company’s Office 365 licensing and now Skype no longer integrates with Outlook 2016. When I log on with Skype for Business at home, I found out that it now integrates with Outlook instead.
Do I need the Home or Personal edition of Office 2016 for integration with Skype or can I somehow set which IM client should integrate with Outlook?
As a responds to Creating distribution list from email recipients the following question was asked;
Instead of creating a Contact Group (aka: Distribution List), I want to add everyone the message was sent to as a separate contact. Is that possible as well without having to right click each recipient and then choose “Add to Outlook Contacts?
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