Tag: Outlook
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Fixed: Outlook 2016 Quickstep will not save
There is a 6 year-old bug in Outlook 2016; you cannot Save a Quickstep that contains an email address when the account uses either a POP or IMAP connection. The issue is that the email drop-down picker silently corrupts your entry by reverting to the Windows Address book. The fix is to type brackets around…
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Windows 10 Creators Update: How to turn off focused inbox
If there is one thing that is guaranteed to make me fume with anger it is vendors mucking about with my email. I think that ordinary home users should use Office 365 and Microsoft email services. Outlook.com offers you a free mail account with an *@outlook.com address. You can also use it with other addresses…
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How to connect to your Outlook.com contacts and calendar on an Android phone
As a freelancer I like to use the powerful Desktop Outlook client to manage my calendar and contacts. Unfortunately this stores all its data in .pst files which are very unreliable. It is far better to use web based calendaring and contact management. To do this but still use Desktop Outlook I am in the…
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Should you use Outlook on Android – No
I take the pain so you don’t have to. Outlook for Android does not work well. I drank the Microsoft Koolaid of “Office on any device” and moved all my email accounts on my Android phone from the stock email client over to the Outlook App. This has many faults * html in emails does…
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How do I re-index Outlook
I am in the middle of moving from storing old emails in directories to storing them in a single directory called Reference and using Microsoft Outlook Categories to indicate the topic. After moving 3000 emails I found that nothing was returning in the search. I needed to force Outlook to re-index the emails. I found this…
Dr James Bayley 