I'm working on a small monitor (a Netbook actually) and the Ribbon takes up quite some space of my visible area.

Is there any way I can make it go away when I'm not using it?

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How can I create a shortcut to create a new message without going into Outlook first?

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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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When I add info to a contact it makes a new entry in my "Address Book".

Some have multiple entries of the type "SMTP" and others have the type "FAX" as well.

Why does it give me another (new) contact instead of just saving the original one with the changes?

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I've stored my contacts as First Last but when I address an email by pressing on the "To:" button, it still shows them Last, First.

How can I show them all as First Last like they have saved them in the Contacts folder?

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I sometimes receive a mailing which shows "Undisclosed Recipients" in to To field. I want to send out a mailing myself now.

How can I also send out with "Undisclosed Recipients"?

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When I click on the Advanced Editor button when creating a signature, it opens up FrontPage. I want it to open Word instead. I've already set my email editor to Word but Outlook persists on opening FrontPage.

How can I make Outlook to edit my signature in Word?

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I'm using 2 computers with Outlook and I've also configured my mobile phone to collect my email but it seems a bit at random where my received messages show up.

How can I receive all my email on both my computers and phone?

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For some emails I manually set the option “Request a Read Receipt” and for some contacts I always request a Read Receipt via a message rule.

I’ve tested this myself and it worked as expected but I hardly receive a Read Receipt from other people. How can this be?

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I know that I can set the option to request for a Read Receipt for all messages or to set it on a per-message basis. However, I only want to set it when sending to certain people.

For instance, I only want to request a Read Receipt when sending to my boss, the HR department and some project managers.

Is there a way to have Outlook automatically ask for a Read Receipt if an email is sent to a specific email address rather than needing to set this manually?

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