I have a couple of Search Folders configured such as for “Unread Mail” and “For Follow Up” and they usually work great.
Unfortunately, sometimes these Search Folders stop from updating and show in italics. I then need to click on them to reactivate them.
Why is this happening and how can I keep my Search Folders active?
When I want to grant someone permissions to my Exchange mailbox, I found that I can either do this via the Delegates options dialog or via a right click on the folder-> Properties-> tab: Permissions.
I noticed that the people for which I set the permissions per folder do not show up in the Delegates dialog. Is that correct?
What are the differences between setting the permissions via the Delegate dialog and the Permissions tab?
I’m using Outlook 2013 on Windows 8 and lately I’ve begun to notice that I don’t get any New Mail Notifications or that I get a notification long after I’ve already noticed that I received a message.
The emails are delivered to my Inbox and as far as I can tell, I have all the New Mail Notification options enabled in Outlook.
How can I get the Notifications as soon as new emails are being received?
In Outlook 2016, there is this huge gray bar at the bottom which lists (in a very big font) Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks, etc… to switch to their corresponding folder.
In previous versions of Outlook, they were listed as icons within the pane on the left which also displays all your folders.
I liked this configuration better as this was a lot smaller and therefor allows for more space to display the message list and also gives me a larger Reading Pane area.
Is there any way to put it back there and gain back some of this wasted space?
When I look at the message list in Outlook 2013, I’ve got the feeling that things aren’t as “sharp” as they should be.
It looks like the name of the sender and subject of the message isn’t really black. The characters in the emails itself look a little bit darker and clearer to me.
Is this just me needing glasses or there another option to make the characters sharper in the message list?
I've looked through all the rules in Outlook but it appears I can only apply them to messages which meet a certain condition. What I'm looking for is to create a rule when a certain condition is NOT met.
For instance, all emails which are marked as high importance but that are not coming from our escalation tool should be marked as normal importance (and I'll assign it a category instead to indicate that the customer deemed it important).
I can set the condition "from people or public group" with ease but how do I set the condition "NOT from people or public group"?
Recently, some emails that I receive are directly delivered to the Deleted Items folder instead of being delivered to the Inbox.
I also fear that some messages are even permanently deleted without me knowing.
Why does this happen and how can I get everything delivered to my Inbox again?
In Outlook, everywhere I look, I see a placeholder as the Contact’s picture.
Rather than seeing this placeholder all the time, can’t I simply remove it altogether?
I’m Categorizing specific items in my Calendar, Contacts and Tasks folder. For instance, in my Calendar and Contacts folders, I’ve made a distinction between Work, Private and Sport Club.
Sometimes, I want for instance to print out my Work Calendar schedule or a list of Contacts to hand out to a new member of our club or just my list of Garden chores to hang outside.
While it is easy enough to categorize them, I have gone through all the printing options, but can’t find a way to select which Category to print.
How do I print just one Category?
I noticed something strange within my Calendar;
Some appointment and meeting items have a little square block in front of them. So these are indented while others are not.
What does this mean or what causes this to happen?
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