I sort many of my messages into folders and subfolders by using rules. While I do use a Search Folder to keep track of all the new messages, the new messages still expand the folder list which is fairly large.

The result is that the Navigation Pane looks quite cluttered and it pushes my other mailboxes down and out of view and I need to scroll down to see them.

Is there a way to prevent these subfolders from being opened or to quickly collapse them all at once?

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When looking at an RSS Feed, I see the author or the feed's name in bold all the time. I find the subject more important and there is no need to see the same feed name in the feed's folder over and over again.

How can I modify this?

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Upon checking my Deleted Items folder, I came across some emails which should not have been deleted.

I’m now trying to find out how this happened and knowing when it got deleted would be a huge help.

Is there any way to determine when a message got deleted?

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On occasion, I receive emails which have been addressed to multiple people which contain actionable items for our team which need to be discussed internally first.

Currently, I usually press Reply All and remove the addresses of the original sender and other recipients who don’t belong to our team. Sometimes, re-addressing the email entirely is quicker. Either way, it is cumbersome and quite error prone.

Can I somehow add a “Discuss with Team” button to the Respond section as well?

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When writing a message Outlook is no longer putting those red squiggly lines under misspelled words.

In Options, I’ve verified that the options “Check spelling as you type” and “Mark grammar errors as you type” are enabled but it is still not working.

It still works correctly in Word and Word and Outlook are the same version as well.

How can I enable spellcheck for Outlook again?

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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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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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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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Using your previous tip, I’ve removed some unneeded text from a message that I received (a long signature and some old replies). However, I’ve noticed that now the message actually is larger. I was expecting it to be smaller since I’ve only removed text and not added any.

How is this possible and how can I prevent this?

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I want to send a message to a large group, but I don't want them to be able to "Reply All". I know if I us the "Bcc" field this will work, but I want the group to know who has received the message. I just don't want a barage of "Reply All" messages.

Is there a way to disable this function for a particular email?

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