I know that you can add commands to the Quick Access Toolbar but I actually like to have some additional commands shown on the Home or Message tab of Outlook instead.

For instance, I would like to add the Spelling & Grammar button to the main Messages tab (visible when composing a message) and the Print button to the Home tab of the Outlook window itself.

How can I do this?

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I frequently search through my entire mailbox rather than just a single folder as I store my mails in multiple folders and also want to include the Sent Items folder.

However, this makes the Search results a bit cluttered as obviously there is no folder structure anymore.

Is there a way to color code the results based on the folder?
For instance, results from the Inbox will stay black, Sent Items will be blue and Deleted Items will be red.

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Is there any way to search a PST when the index are not complete?

I have recently migrated to a new computer and the indexing is still crawling gently trough my 1.5Gb PST. However I still need to search!

Is there a way to perform an old fashioned, slow but effective search?

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I've been trying to figure out how to group all the communication revolving around one topic. The topics are not on-going, as in over weeks and months. However, frequently, numerous people reply to an email over the courser of a few days but not in sequence.

How can I group them together or do something that keeps me keep track of all of them so I can reference?

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I have a long email which consists of multiple email replies back and forth.

I don't want to print all these previous messages but only my selection of a single page.

How can I print only the latest reply of my message?

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I frequently do a mailbox wide search in Outlook and luckily I also usually find what I’m looking for.

Sometimes, it is also important to me to find out where exactly that email is located in Outlook. The search results list doesn’t tell me that but it is important to me that I know it is in the correct folder.

Is there any way to determine the exact folder path of a message?

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Is there any way I can specify AND and OR operators when using Advanced Find or creating more complex custom Views or Search Folders?

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I regularly need to send out emails which discusses multiple topics (an internal newsletter) and found out that topics as the bottom are regularly overlooked as people don’t tend to scroll down all the way.

I therefor want these email messages to contains an index at top with links people can click on which takes them directly to that section within the email. This would be similar to inserting a Table of Contents (TOC) in Word.

Can I create such indexes within emails as well?

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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?

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I’m not sure what happened, but suddenly all my emails that were still on the mail server got downloaded again. I now have a huge list of duplicate messages.

How can I quickly clean up this mess?

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