I’ve been trying to use my mouse less for common computer tasks. With a little practice and the right keyboard shortcuts, this often ends up to be much quicker than using my mouse as well.
As I search through my emails on a regular basis, I was wondering whether there are any useful search shortcuts in Outlook?
I’ve pinned the new “Calendar Peek” to get the “To-Do Bar” back in Outlook 2013 but I’m still missing some functionality here.
The main options that I’m missing are:
Especially the first one is quite annoying. If I have a day with little or no appointments, I always found it quite convenient to see upcoming appointments for the next days. Now it just shows a big empty white spot.
Is there any way to change this and get that functionality back?
To troubleshoot a winmail.dat and lost attachments issue, I wanted to verify that the email properties for certain contacts hasn’t been set to “Send using Outlook Rich Text Format” as described in Email attachments disappear when sent to others.
However, this method doesn’t seem to apply to Outlook 2016 and neither does the Outlook 2010 method.
Where did they hide this option in recent versions of Outlook?
I’ve got a new installation of Outlook on Windows 8 and I’d like to place a shortcut for Outlook on my Desktop.
How do I do this?
I've created my HTML signature in an external application and then placed the files (including txt and rtf versions) in the Signatures folder. This signature contains a picture and looks correct when composing a new message or reply. However, when I send the message, the recipient does not see this picture.
I've successfully used this signature for years with Outlook 2010 and the issue only occurs when I send a message with this signature from Outlook 2016.
Why is this happening and how can I make my signature work with Outlook 2016?
When I create a new Contact in Outlook, I get the traditional Contact form which I also got in previous versions of Outlook. However, once I’ve saved an closed this form, I can’t seem to get back to it anymore.
When I double click on a contact in the Contacts folder, it opens a contact card which only list a few of the details which I can edit and a Notes section.
I get a similar contact dialog when I use the Search People box on the Ribbon. Annoyingly this contact dialog automatically goes away when I click somewhere else in Outlook.
How can I get back to the full contact editing form and have it stay open?
I’ve got a vCard containing my contacts which I created by exporting my contacts from another application (Lotus Notes). However, Outlook seems to only support importing the first contacts from that file.
I then split this multi-contact vCard file into separate vcf-files, one for each contact, which all reside in a single folder. However, Outlook seems to only support importing 1 vCard at a time.
Is there any way I can import all these vcf-files at once or import this single multi-contact vCard in Outlook?
When I upgrade to Windows 8.1, which versions of Outlook are supported on it?
When selecting multiple emails by holding the SHIFT and/or CTRL buttons, the Reading Pane doesn't update to show the newly selected email. Instead, it still shows the first mail that I selected.
This makes evaluating and quickly scanning through an email to decide whether or not it should belong to my selection quite complicated.
Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail both have this feature and I usually used this method to quickly delete or move a lot of emails at once.
Is there a way to make this functionality work in Outlook as well?
For my work, I regularly work with files that are blocked by default by Outlook. I've been able to unblock them via the Level1Remove Registry value but then I'm still being prompted to save them to disk first before I can open them.
I understand that completely unblocking them poses a certain risk, but as these are mainly shortcuts (lnk-files) and script files (such as vbs-files, which I've configured to open with Notepad by default), my increased productivity will outweigh the theoretical increased risk by this change.
Is there any way to completely unblock these Level1 attachments?
