When selecting multiple emails by holding the SHIFT and/or CTRL buttons, the Reading Pane doesn't update to show the newly selected email. Instead, it still shows the first mail that I selected.

This makes evaluating and quickly scanning through an email to decide whether or not it should belong to my selection quite complicated.

Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail both have this feature and I usually used this method to quickly delete or move a lot of emails at once.

Is there a way to make this functionality work in Outlook as well?

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I heard that Microsoft is deprecating the Journal feature in Outlook 2013. I’m apparently one of the few that is currently still using the Journal.

What is recommended to replace it with?

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I've flagged several messages for Follow Up but unless I also specify a reminder time myself, I do not get any reminder at all. When using the Today, Tomorrow, This Week or Next Week flags, the item does not show a "bell" icon either.

How can I automatically set reminders on flagged items?

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To keep my work and private e-mail completely separate, I've added an additional mail profile to Outlook. I've named this new mail profile after my company. The original mail profile is called Outlook.

Is there any way I could rename this mail profile to something more indicative like "private emails"?

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I've dismissed several appointments but they keep coming back up in the Reminders Window.

Aside from deleting the appointment items (which I do not want to do), how can I dismiss these items permanently?

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When looking at my folder list, I see 2 folder sets with the same emails. One is my default where I keep all my email, contacts, etc… and the second one is called Personal Folders and shows all my emails as well.

When I delete a message from Personal Folders, it is also deleted from my main mailbox.

How can I remove this duplicate set of folders?

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Every time I start Outlook, the Microsoft End-User License Agreement, comes up on the screen. I must have accepted it a dozen times right now.

Is there a way to make this go away permanently?

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There are some rules that I want to remove but when I go to Tools-> Rules and Alerts (or File-> Manage Rules & Alerts in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013), these rules are grayed out and cannot be removed.

How can I get rid of these "ghost rules"?

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For some reason, the AutoPreview only works for unread messages. Those messages that have been read no longer show the AutoPreview.

For all other computers in the company, the AutoPreview shows for ALL messages regardless of whether they have been read or not.

How can I achieve the same?

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I sometimes accidentally close Outlook.

How can I configure Outlook to prompt me whether I really want to close the application or have it minimized instead?

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