I’ve sent out some really important emails and for these emails not only did I request Read Receipts, I also requested Delivery Receipts.

I do this because Read Receipts aren’t sent until the recipient actually reads the message and even then, these Read Receipts can be cancelled by the recipient or can otherwise get “lost” as well.

From my understanding, Delivery Receipts should be returned as soon as the message is delivered in the online mailbox of the recipient, which should be within a few seconds. However, I never seem to get these even though the messages are clearly being delivered.

How can I reliably get Delivery Receipts back when requested?

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In my emails, I often need to refer to documentation and products on the Internet for which I also supply the URL within the message.

For readability, I turn these words into clickable hyperlinks.

Unfortunately, this is quite a bit of work and the documentation and product links are the same ones I use over and over.

Would it be possible to automatically turn these key words into hyperlinks pointing to the correct URL?

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Sadly, due to an oversight when migrating my Outlook data from one computer to the other, my AutoComplete cache was lost and since I never added people as a Contact, my Contacts folder is heavily outdated.

I'm now going through my Inbox and Sent Items folder and right click on a sender or recipient and choose: Add to Outlook Contacts

This is of course a really slow process and I think I've learned my lesson by now.

It there a quicker way to review the senders and recipients and add them to my Contacts folder without creating a massive amount of duplicate contacts?

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There was an option to ignore stationery fonts in the older versions of Outlook via;
Tools-> Options...-> tab Mail Format-> button Fonts...

This dialog seems to be removed in Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010.

Is there still any way to set this option?

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I've been using Microsoft Office for a very long time. I remember that when I used to do a lot of copy/paste actions, I had an Office Clipboard pane on the left which allowed me to easily select from recent copied template texts.

Does this Office Clipboard feature still exist in the newer Outlook versions?

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I often get a lot of picture attachments. Instead of opening them one by one can I get them to display all at once so I can scroll through them easily or open them as a slideshow?

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In Outlook 2003 both CTRL+C and CTRL+Ins could be used as “Copy” shortcut keys. Now in Outlook 2007 only the CTRL+C works.

How can I get the CTRL+Ins to work as well?

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When saving an email message to a network drive, I get the following error;

"The message interface has returned an unknown error."

Instead of saving the message, a tmp-file is created on the network location. When I rename the tmp-file to .msg, then it appears to be the message that I tried to save.

How can I get rid of the error and have the message save directly as an msg-file?

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Upon cleaning up my hard disk, I came across a lot of eml-files.

Some of them are messages I saved directly while others are exports from email applications that I used over the years like Outlook Express, Thunderbird and even Lotus Notes.

I noticed that recent versions of Outlook can now also directly open eml-files but I actually want to store them within Outlook so all my entire email archive is kept together.

How can I import all these eml-files into Outlook?

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How do I sync my contacts and calendar stored in Outlook with my Windows Phone 7 device?

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