When I performed my search query, I got some unexpected results where the words I was searching for weren’t even included in the email.
Upon further investigation, I found out that these words were mentioned in the attachments of those emails.
How can I configure Outlook to only search for the words in the message itself and not look into the attachments?
I'm an avid Tasks user in Outlook and I usually initially build my Task List by only assigning a Due Date. Then at a later stage I go back to review all open tasks and assign Start Dates to the Tasks.
Here is where things go wrong; When I assign a Start Date, it also modifies the Due Date which I absolutely do not want.
How can I tell Outlook to maintain the Due Date when modifying the Start Date?
I heavily rely on the Search feature within Outlook to efficiently triage my emails. However, something appears to have been changed to how Search works. For instance;
How I can I return Outlook’s Search behavior back to the way it was before?
I’m using Outlook on Windows 10 and whenever I receive a new email I do get the notification toast but when I open the Action Center, the message isn't listed there.
Can I add Outlook’s notifications to the Action Center as well so I can quickly see if I received any new emails while I was away from my computer?
For the past year, I’ve been archiving to a pst-file which I called “archive-2018.pst” which is also located in a “2018” folder of my Documents folder. I’ve now finished archiving everything of 2018 and want to start my 2019 archive.
How can I create a new archive and configure Outlook to archive to the “archive-2019.pst” file in the future?
I know Outlook offers ways to move emails from certain people into different folders. However, I’d like to do the reverse; Move emails from unknown contacts into a different folder.
This way my Inbox will only be filled with messages from people I know instead from people I don’t know.
Can I do this in Outlook?
After upgrading to Windows 10, I can no longer start Outlook and get the following error:
Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. File access is denied. You do not have the permission required to access the file
C:\Users\Robert\Documents\Outlook Files\Robert.pst.
How do I give myself access to my own pst-file again?
I’m connecting to my Gmail account via IMAP and in the folder list on the left, I also have a folder called “Important”.
In this folder, I receive various emails which are also received in my Inbox folder. It also contains many emails that also exist in my Sent Items folders.
How can I prevent my emails from being duplicated in this “Important” folder?
I’m receiving various notification emails from the same address which I all store within a single folder (I move them there via a rule based on the From address).
Their subjects are non-distinctive but their message body however holds specific information which I like to group them together by within that folder. With grouping together I mean similar as how you can group messages from the same sender together or messages with the same subject.
For instance, our sales system sends out an email that there is a new order, but what has been ordered is stated in the message along with further details.
Is there a way to still group these messages based on what has been ordered without spreading them out over multiple folders?
Upon opening attachments, they get opened in a Protected View which prevents me from editing the file unless I first press on the "Enable Editing" button.
As I'm always very careful about which attachments I open and often need to edit and return attachments, I find this additional step a bit annoying.
Is there a way to "unblock" these attachments by default?
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