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I am using Outlook 2021 on a Windows 11 laptop. I have one (Exchange) account setup connected to an outlook.com email account via an OST file. I also have a PST file open, containing my calendar and contacts (there are no calendar or contacts in the OST file), and I have adjusted the address...

I have been using Outlook 2021 on a Windows 11 laptop to access my outlook.com. account via a POP account setup, but it appears I now need to use an Exchange account setup instead, because outlook.com. now requires "Modern authentication". Is there a way to add a new Exchange account setup in...

I have been using Outlook 2021 Home & Business on a new Windows 11 laptop for several months with no problems; however, today when doing a send/receive for my outlook.com email account, a username/password prompt keeps popping up, but it keeps failing with the error message "Your email server...

1. I created the following simple macro in Word, to remove space before and after paragraphs in a document. ---------- Sub ClearParagraphSpacing() Selection.WholeStory With Selection.ParagraphFormat .SpaceBefore = 0 .SpaceBeforeAuto = False .SpaceAfter = 0...

I have two laptops with Outlook 2019 running on Windows 10. One laptop has a single contacts folder, and when I start typing a name or email address in the To field in a new email on this laptop, it automatically pops up contacts with matching names or addresses from the contacts folder, as...

When I open Outlook 2019, it keeps showing a message that an add-in caused Outlook to start slowly. The one or two seconds that the add-in takes to load is negligible, and I have set it as "Always enable", and there is an option to suppress monitoring this for 7 or 30 days, but is there a way to...

A couple of weeks ago, I purchased two new laptops with Windows 10 and Office 2019, and in Outlook, on both laptops, the arrow button ("caret") at the lower right corner of the ribbon said "Switch Ribbons. Switch between the Classic Ribbon and the Simplified Ribbon" when I hovered over it, and...

I am setting up Outlook 2019 on a Windows 10 laptop. I have three email accounts, all downloading email from a server via POP. I do not have the passwords saved (and do not want to), and when I click on Send/Receive the first time after opening Outlook, it prompts for the passwords as expected...

What determines the sequence in which accounts are checked when you check the mail? I have five accounts, and they aren't checked either in alphabetical order or in the order that they are listed in File > Account Settings.

I run manual archiving yearly, which creates a new PST file with a copy of the main folder tree for each year. The main folder tree has the standard layout; i.e., a group of four folders with special icons (Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items, Deleted Items), then all other folders in alphabetical order...

In Outlook 2010, how can I search the inbox (or any other folder) for messages that have an attachment with a specified filename; e.g., "myfile.pdf", or "myfile" (with any extension) or *.pdf" (any pdf file)?

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...

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...

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?

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...

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...

I am using Outlook 2010 on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2. I want to sort the inbox and other folders first by read/unread status, then by received date. 1. I can sort by received date by clicking on the Received column heading, or by setting "Sort items by = Received" in the View...

We are using Outlook 2010 under Windows Server 2008 R2. At the bottom right of Outlook is the message "Windows Desktop Search is not available". Should Windows Desktop Search normally be available, and if so, how can we fix this, or if not, how can we clear the message?

We are migrating from Eudora 7 to Outlook 2010. Some of our contacts have more than one email address, and in Eudora we can save one contact with two addresses, then when we select that one contact from the address book, both addresses are included in the To field. How can we do this in Outlook...