I can do quite a bit with my keyboard when I’m processing my mail, but when I do anything with the Calendar, I tend to use the mouse for most of the things.
Are there some handy shortcuts for navigating the Calendar as well?
In Outlook, I’ve added an Exchange, POP3 and IMAP account and configured some rules to automatically sort my mail.
While the rules for IMAP account are managed separately, I noticed that the rules for the Exchange and POP3 are combined and therefor apply to both accounts.
This creates some interference with the processing of the rules and Exchange rejecting them.
Is there a way to separate the management of these rules just as for the IMAP account?
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?
I heard that Microsoft is deprecating the Journal feature in Outlook 2013. I’m apparently one of the few that is currently still using the Journal.
What is recommended to replace it with?
At work, our Calendars are shared by default so that we can always lookup where someone is and to book meetings more conveniently. I’m OK with this as it also benefits me.
However, I also add my private appointments to my calendar which syncs with my smartphone and tablet so that I have only 1 calendar to manage and always see my full schedule. As I don’t want everyone in my office to see and read my private appointments, I mark them as Private which works great.
As I’m sometimes somewhat forgetful, is there also a way to have my appointments marked as Private by default to prevent embarrassing mistakes?
I'm accessing a shared mailbox in Outlook 2010 and also have the option to cache shared folders enabled.
Sometimes, when I create a new folder or rename an exisiting folder in the shared mailbox, the folder doesn't show up or gets renamed back to the original folder when restarting Outlook.
How can I see these changes directly or make them permanent without disabling Cached Exchange Mode?
Have you discovered the Mini Translator already?
It is a quick way to translate a word or a text selection and can even be used in the Reading Pane without the need to open the Research Pane or the message itself.
I've enabled my Automatic Replies (Out of Office) and have sent myself a message from my private account to see how it would arrive. Sadly, I never received this automatic reply.
Why isn't it working and how can I make it work reliably?
I'm using a POP3 account and have Outlook configured not to leave a copy on the mail server. However, after I download the messages, they are still kept on the server as well.
Why are they still there and not being deleted?
Several mail applications and web mail services do not actually specify a font when composing and sending a message in HTML format. So although the sender thinks that he/she is sending a message in the Arial format, it actually arrives in Times New Roman on my computer.
This is of course because Outlook uses Times New Roman as the default font when none is specified.
Is there any way that I can change this default font to something different than 12pt Times New Roman? For instance, 10pt Arial?
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