I configured my account as an IMAP account and noticed that it will only download the message when I actually click on the message. This is actually quite annoying when I'm not connected to the Internet at that time.

How can I configure it so that it will directly download the message in full without clicking on it first?

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I have lots of contacts in Outlook and I am looking for a way to update some contact fields so they will be more consistent. For instance, I’m looking to update the following properties;

• For some contacts I’ve entered “AVE” and for other “Avenue”. I want this to be “Avenue” for everyone.
• For some contacts I’ve included the country code in their phone number and I’d like to remove that.
• Change the email address domain of several contacts as their company changed its name and has a new domain name.

How can I achieve these changes without modifying all contacts one-by-one?

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I'm using Outlook with multiple accounts configured. This is a mix of Exchange, POP3, IMAP and Outlook.com accounts so they each have their own Inbox folder.

This sometimes makes it hard to keep track of all the latest (unread) messages as it requires me to visit each Inbox and sometimes sub folders as well.

Is there any way to create a special view or Search Folder which combines all these Inboxes into a single list of (unread) emails?

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I'm having some issues with the search function in Outlook and I think it is because the Windows Search Email Indexer is disabled.

I tried to enable it but Outlook disables it every time.

Why can't I enable this add-in and how do I get Search to function again?

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I sometimes forward messages which I’ve received or a sent as attachments to someone else.

Instead of receiving the attachments that I sent them, they receive them as noname.eml attachments which they cannot open. When they click on it, they only see gibberish.

This doesn’t happen for everyone but mainly for people who are using Gmail, Outlook.com/Hotmail or another web mail account rather than using Outlook.

How can I make sure that they receive the email attachments as it should and that they can read it?

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When searching in Outlook, I see a group of “Top Results” before showing all other emails relevant to my search query.

I find this confusing since some of these emails are quite old and are now shown at the top and no longer chronologically.

Is there any way to disable these Top Results?

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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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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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How can I see if my pst-file is in ANSI format or in UNICODE format?

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When adding an AutoCorrect entry, I noticed that there is an option for "Plain text" and "Formatted text". However, this option is greyed out and defaults to "Plain text".

How can I enable this option is order to store AutoCorrect entries with formatting?

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