When I reply in Outlook 2013, I no longer seem to be able to insert pictures, create a table, change the message format, request a read receipt and a whole lot of other things which I was able to do in Outlook 2010.

Interestingly enough, these features are available when I create a new message or first open the message via a double click and then press the reply button.

How can I make all the features available when replying to a message as well?

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I seem to have collected quite a bit of Draft messages over the years. Some are indeed current Drafts, some are templates that I regularly use and others are just left-overs from messages which I cancelled but Outlook decided to save anyway.

I now want to clean up that folder but they appear to be sorted randomly and the date is indicated as "None". Can still I sort my Drafts chronologically?

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For several contacts, the Notes field contains an overview of which fields have been changed. It appears that this new information is coming from the Global Address Book (GAL) of our company's Exchange server.

While in general this is great, it creates some issues especially with synchronizing to my mobile phone due to the phone number formatting and the length of the Notes field.

Can I disbale this automatic updating of my contacts?

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I have a message template (oft-file) which already contains a custom signature to match the template. However, each time that I create a new message based upon that template, my default signature also gets added.

Is there any way to prevent my default signature from being added when using templates?

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How do I make a backup of all my contacts in the Address Book in Outlook?

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I have a message stuck in my Outbox (because it is to large to send). I tried to delete it but I get the following error;

"Can't open this item. The MAPI Spooler has already begun transmitting this message."

How can I get rid of this message?

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I am tidying up large attachments in Outlook to reduce the size of the PST file.

In some e-mails the attachment is in the message body. These particular attachments cannot be cut, deleted or otherwise removed, since these controls are greyed out.

How can I remove these attachments?

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I know that I can set the option to request for a Read Receipt for all messages or to set it on a per-message basis. However, I only want to set it when sending to certain people.

For instance, I only want to request a Read Receipt when sending to my boss, the HR department and some project managers.

Is there a way to have Outlook automatically ask for a Read Receipt if an email is sent to a specific email address rather than needing to set this manually?

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I'm having several messages in my Outbox waiting to get sent out.

I noticed that some of these messages have a date and are written in italics. Other messages have no date and are in Roman. Upon sending and receiving, the ones in italics get sent but the ones in Roman hang in the Outbox.

What is the difference and how can I fix this without needing to recreate the messages?

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I'm using Outlook 2003 on Windows 7 and when inserting a picture or file from or when saving a message to a Library, the Library shows up empty.

Is there a fix for this?

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