I’ve added my Outlook.com mailbox to Outlook 2013 as an Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) account. In the Navigation Pane, the display mailbox of the mailbox is the full email address of my Outlook.com account.
Because my email address is quite long, it gets truncated with “…”. Preferably, I just want it to show my first name since it is my personal account.
Is there any way I can rename or otherwise shorten this mailbox name?
In Outlook 2003 when an item was flagged, and subsequently marked Complete, the email would show the date and time it was de-flagged and marked as complete. In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, it is only showing the date.
How do I get it to show both the completed date and time again?
Every time I compose a new email, the new message window shows very big letters.
For example, I can only see 6 English words on my 22" monitor. The font I use is Arial size 10. This is very annoying as I just cannot see my message clearly. I have tried to turn off everything in Accessibility and it didn't help. When I read email, then all is normal.
How do I get back to a normal size font again?
I know how to Categorize a message that I have received or once I have sent it; There is a big Categorize button for that on the Ribbon.
However, when I compose a message, this command is not available on the Ribbon. It is available when creating a new Appointment, Meeting or Contact.
Why is this button not available and how can I Categorize a message before sending it?
Lately I’m having some sync issues with my mailbox. For instance, I see several new emails in my mailbox when I login to webmail which I don’t see in Outlook.
Also, it looks like the entire month of June has gone missing in Outlook but the emails are luckily still available on the server.
Is there any way to get Outlook to sync or download these emails again?
I'm using Outlook on multiple computers which apparently is causing a problem with the Junk E-mail filter.
On one computer, which I use daily, I've taken all the false positives out of my Junk E-mail folder and moved them back into my Inbox or other folders.
When I'm traveling, I'm using a laptop but when it collects all my emails since the last time I used it (which can be for over a week), it rescans all the emails that are being synced and most false positives end up in the Junk E-mail folder again.
How can I prevent this from happening?
After setting up Two-Step Verification on Outlook.com, I've been unable to connect Outlook with my Outlook.com account and am repeatedly being prompted for my password.
I know I am putting in the correct password as it still works when I try to log on to the website.
How can I gain access to my Outlook.com account again from Outlook without disabling the Two-Step Verification?
I’ve created several Contact Groups in Outlook (known as Distribution Lists in previous versions of Outlook) which I use for mailings.
Due to some restructuring and increase of my sending limit, I now like to combine some of these groups into 1 group. As they hold quite a few Contacts, I don’t really feel like adding them manually or recreate the group entirely.
Is there any way I can quickly combine multiple Contact Groups into one?
After installing Office 2003 Service Pack 3, my Scan-to-Email function on my scanner now generates an error message from Outlook:
"The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using."
I did not have any problems with this until SP3 was installed. How can I get it to work again?
When typing an address in the “To:” line I get a list of addresses to choose from. There are several of these autocomplete recipient names in there which I’ve mistyped and also some that I don’t use anymore.
How can I remove these? They are not in my Contacts folder either. Where are they?
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