In our organization we often send text based hyperlinks to folders and files we work on. Most of the time I just copy the path out of Explorer and insert it into the message body and put file:// if front of it so that Outlook will automatically create a link out of it.

This works great except if the file or foldername contains spaces. Then it breaks the hyperlink at the first space.

How can I make Outlook to create a link including spaces? Renaming the files and folders is not an option to us.

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I’ve been granted Delegate permissions for the mailbox of my manager and want to send out a Mail Merge in his name.

I’ve done a test but it seems that I can only do a Mail Merge out of my own name.

How can I do a Mail Merge for my manager as his Delegate?

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I see new emails coming in but after some seconds they automatically remove themselves from my mailbox. I don't have any rules configured that would move or delete these items.

How can I get this to stop and get to those messages?

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I’ve re-enabled the To-Do Bar in Outlook 2016 but the display order of the various sections is different from how it was in Outlook 2010.

My current order is:

• Tasks
• Contacts
• Calendar

Is there any way to get the Calendar at the top again and Tasks at the bottom?

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I’m one of many that doesn’t delete any of the emails that I send or receive. I really like that history but I decided that I really should not hoard all the old Newsletters and RSS feed items that I receive as well.

I’m somewhat organized and I’ve stored most of my Newsletters and RSS Feeds in various folders.

Is there any way to quickly get rid of all the items which are from last year and older?

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I often want to forward an email to another recipient, having made some minor changes, but without it being obvious that the email has been originally sent to someone else.

Every time I do this, I have to delete the "Fw:" added to the subject and the previous header from the message body.

Can I stop Outlook from doing this?
Can I also set the inserted text color to match my original text?

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With Conditional Formatting, I can highlight incoming mail from a specific person.

Is it also possible to do this for all emails coming from a specific domain?

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When adding attendees to my meeting invitation, for some of the attendees, their free/busy status shows as “No Information” in the Scheduling Assistant.

Why is this and how can I make Outlook retrieve this information again for this attendee?

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Instant Search only works on the folder that I'm currently in or on the entire mailbox. I know I'm in the right project folder but it has too many subfolders to do my search on.

Is there some way to make it possible to search the subfolders for the folder that I'm in as well?

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Lately I've been receiving empty emails, some even don't have a From, To or Subject field either. I'm not sure if these are just spam messages or if I simply no longer can see the message content.

How can I find that out and when they are spam messages, how can I block them?

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