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?
Is there any way I can specify AND and OR operators when using Advanced Find or creating more complex custom Views or Search Folders?
I also use Outlook as my RSS Reader but as a result, my Unread Mail folder now also counts and displays each unread RSS message in that folder.
Is it possible to only count and show unread emails in the Unread Mail folder?
When I double click on a Word attachment, Outlook tries to open it with “Windows Photo Viewer” which obviously fails.
Similarly, when I double click on a pdf-file, it tries to open it with Adobe Photoshop. Eventually, this will work for most pdf-files but loading Photoshop takes a while and only allows me to view a single page at once. As I want to read and not edit the pdf-file, I’d much rather open it with Adobe Reader instead.
How can I tell Outlook which program to open the attachment with?
We’re using an application which can send notification messages to our customers. It does this via Outlook but for each email that we send out we get the warning below:
A program is trying to send an email message on your behalf. If this is unexpected, click Deny and verify your antivirus software is up-to-date.
We then have to wait a few seconds before a progress bar is to 100% before we can click on Allow.
Needless to say, this is very annoying and quite a time suck as it does this for every email.
Is there a way to suppress these security alerts even if it is just for this application?
Whenever I attach a file that is located within my OneDrive folder on my computer, it is being attached as a OneDrive link with a cloud icon and not as an actual file attachment.
This also happens when I select a file via “Browse This PC…” and then select my locally cached OneDrive folder.
How can I configure Outlook so that it always attaches my files as actual attachments and not as a link to the file on OneDrive?
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?
I’m subscribed to various newsletters and I regularly receive a popup box when trying to open a newsletter that says “Contacting Server for Information” or simply “Contacting:” with a reference to a URL.
It seems to happen more frequently since Pinterest got more popular as the URL is also indicating that it is contacting http://assets.pinterest.com
While it is doing this, I cannot do anything in Outlook for 15-30 seconds or even a minute!
What is this and how can I make it stop?
I'm looking for a way to create a Search Folder for "actionable items". To me, actionable items are messages which are either unread or marked for follow up.
When trying to configure a Search Folder for this, it seems I can only create one for items which are both unread AND marked for follow up rather than OR.
Is it possible to create a Search Folder with such OR criteria for the flagged and read status of a message?
I've installed an English version of Windows and also an English version of Office. However, when I go to my Calendar, I still see the names of the days and months in my native language (Dutch).
How can I switch this to English as well?
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