I have a recurring appointment scheduled in Outlook for which I update the subject and message body of each occurrence to more accurately describe or report the purpose of that particular occurrence.

Unfortunately, when I do a search, Outlook can’t seem to find any of the text within these exceptions even though it is perfectly capable of finding the recurring item itself or anything else.

How can I do a query to find back any of these exceptions?

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Every now and then I come across people who still very much like Outlook Today or get contacted by people who tell me that Outlook Today is broken for them.

Officially, the Outlook Today feature has the "deprecated" status so it could be gone in a future version of Outlook. Over the years, the functionality of Outlook Today has been moved to other parts of Outlook.

Are you ready to abandon Outlook Today?

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I prefer working with the Calendar in the Month view but every now and them Outlook seems to change this to the Day view all by itself.

How can I keep Outlook in the Month view?

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I'm currently using a POP3 account but want to switch that to an IMAP account. Looking at my account settings, POP3 is grayed out so I can't simply change that to IMAP.

How do I change from POP3 to IMAP without losing my current emails?

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The following was asked as a responds to the previous tip about customizing the Contact Activities view;

I’m a quite frequent user of the Activities section for contacts and I was hoping that I could speed it up a bit by applying a filter to the view as currently come in just way to slow to remain useful. Sadly, the “Filter…” option is disabled.

Why is Contact Activities so slow and is there any way to speed it up?

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When using Outlook and Skype together, I can see my Outlook Contacts in Skype. When closing Outlook, they are gone.

How can I keep them in Skype so that I can also use them on another machine (and on my smartphone)?

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When using the Save, Open, Attach File and Insert Picture dialogs in Outlook (and other Office applications), I usually need to browse quite a bit to actually get to the location where I want to be.

Would it be possible to add shortcuts to my own locations in these dialogs?

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I'm seeking for an easy way to create an appointment in Outlook to remind me that I need to call a contact without having to look up and type in all the contact information.

Which methods does Outlook offer?

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I have a couple of rules configured already and today I wanted to add another one but when saving the rule I get the error that I don't have enough space for that. I just cleaned up my mailbox and I have enough space left in my mailbox.

How can I make Outlook to save this rule?

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When I receive an email and select its attachment, Outlook automatically switches to the Attachments tab.

I hardly use any of the commands on the Attachments tab and I much rather like to stay on the more useful Home or Message tab so that I can directly Reply, Categorize, Archive, Move, apply a Quick Step, or whatever without the need for an extra click.

Can I make Outlook stay on the Home or Message tab when I select an attachment?

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