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I have a rule that moves emails into a specified folder if the subject contains specified keywords. Is it possible to make a rule that operates only of the subject *starts* with specified keywords? For example, I want to include emails that start with "Quotation" or "Order", but not ones that...

I received many suggestions that this issue might be caused by add-ins or antivirus programs; however, it appears to be a bug in Outlook, to do with default file settings when additional PST files are created. I do have a couple of third-party add-ins in Outlook (Sperry "Always Bcc", AbleBits...

After living with this issue for a couple of years (spurious folders named "&Don't prompt me about this again" repeatedly appearing in Archive files in Outlook 2010) and receiving suggestions that it might be caused by things like add-ins or antivirus programs, I recently came across the...

I noticed that the crashes were always occurring when the archiving function was processing the Sent Items folder, so I tried archiving that folder manually (selected emails between archive dates, made a "Sent Items" folder in the archive file, and moved the emails to there) before archiving the...

We have been using Outlook 2010 for three users (on Windows Server 2008 R2) for a couple of years with no problems, but when I used Outlook's manual archiving function the other day, it worked fine for one user with a PST file around 300 MB but kept crashing before it got half-way through for...

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Thanks for your reply. Which utility would you recommend for simplicity and reliability?

I have numerous emails in Outlook Express on an old desktop running Windows XP, and I want to transfer them to Outlook 2013 on a new laptop running Windows 8.1. What is the best way to do this?

Since my previous post, I tried creating multiple archive folders for multiple years on a test system and found that when multiple archive files are opened, Outlook displays them all separately, each one under an "Archive" heading. (However, there is no indication of the filename for each one...

Since my previous post, I found that although the spurious folder that appeared in the Archive section (named "&Don't prompt me about this again") initially had its Delete option greyed out, when I checked some time later after Outlook had been opened and closed a few times, this folder's Delete...

I did a manual archive of the top folder and all subfolders, with the date set to 1 Jan 2015, which correctly created a yearly archive PST file with the same folder structure as the main PST file, containing all emails from 2014. (I also set the "ArchiveIgnoreLastModifiedTime" parameter in the...

I am running Outlook 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2. After doing manual archiving, the Archive section now contains an empty folder named "&Don't prompt me about this again", but the Delete option is greyed out. (A couple of these folders appeared, but all except this last one could be...

Thanks for your reply. To avoid confusion, I will transfer the two items to separate threads. - Cannot delete spurious folder - Archiving by year

I have a couple of further questions. I set up Windows Desktop Search, and Outlook correctly searches multiple folders in multiple PST files now. I did a manual archive of the top folder and all subfolders, with the date set to 1 Jan 2015, which correctly created a yearly archive PST file with...

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I am using Outlook 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2. My old emails are in yearly archive PST files, which have the same folder structure as the main PST file. Is there a way to search for any emails in any folders in any year (i.e., in any open PST file) that contain the search word? When I set...

Thanks for your further reply. I see that I can use a Search folder to list multiple folders grouped by folder; however, each folder contains numerous messages, and I want to use each folder separately. I have added the Change views gallery to the Quick access toolbar and will select the...

Thanks for your further reply. I have created two views: "Unread" , with a filter to show unread message only, and "All", with no filter. 1. Is there a way to put the buttons for these two views on the Home tab of the ribbon for quick access? 2. I see that after selecting a view, I can click...

Thanks for your further reply. I see that Outlook can search for text, and can filter read/unread messages via View Settings and Search Folders, without having Windows Search installed. However, if I have numerous folders and want to view individual ones separately, sometimes showing all...

Thanks for your reply. 1. I see that a "Read" column can be added from the Field Chooser to a folder view, but Outlook cannot sort by this column. 2. In Outlook on my PC, I can click on Filter E-mail > Unread, or Search > Unread, both of which set the search parameter to "read:no" and thereby...