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    people search returns 'email properties' for one contact

    Using classic outlook '24, on win11. That one contact is my own contact form. Searches for other names work fine. Enter name in people search field, click on name and get the contact form. But for me it just returns the 'email properties' window I had a similar problem about 6 months ago...
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    Search People>press enter box disappears.

    when using the 'search people' box to find contact, the box with 'press enter' comes up. When I press enter, the box disappears and name clears from search. I am finding this behavior on both the win10 and win11. I upgraded one computer to win11 on Monday, after which I synced the win10...
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    macro to stop 18hr reminder for all-day appts not working on one computer

    Thanks Diane for the macro to turn off 18hr reminder. It works great on my desktop, but I can't get it to work on laptop. Same version of installed OL24 on both systems. I am using the first 2 sections of code, to simply ask about turning off 18hr reminder. I did set macro settings to...
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    OL24 Calendar folder pane too narrow

    Outlook 2024, installed with Office. When opening the calendar, my default view is "week" . Left of that, is the folder pane with showing 2 months list of optional calendars underneath. The problem is the default width of that pane: it's just not quite wide enough to show the entire week...
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    Accessing full contact forms

    I have installed Office 2021, with Outlook (ver 2108) to view the full contact form (rather than abbreviated contact info) I have to search for contact, then in the abbreviated contact window click 'view more options' >'edit outlook contact'. Is there a faster way to get to the full contact...
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    Outlook 2021 needs 'enter' for people search

    I have installed Of21, to get around the issue of Outlook not being able to maintain its exchange password. So, the exchange password issue is resolved, but Outlook (ver 2108) needs me to hit 'enter' when using People Search on the ribbon. there doesn't seem to be a setting for "display...
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    Outlook can't remember outlook.com, Exchange password.

    I have been having outlook/exchange asking for password when outlook starts. I can enter password and it asks again a few minutes later. or it may be a day between asking. This has been going on for several weeks. This means that connection with Exchange calendar is completely unreliable. I...
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    'search people' now asks me to 'press enter'

    OL16, local install, part of Office16. Search People box, installed in OL task bar, is now asking me to "press enter' to initiate search. Until about 3 weeks ago (windows update?) it searched while typing. I have tried rebuilding the index (yes, outlook is checked as an index location), and...
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    manual rule sends mail to wrong folder

    OL16, installed on local computer. I have a Manual rule, to move an email to 'hold' folder in my main imap account. It used to work ok. a few weeks ago it apparently stopped working as directed. it sends all mail to outlook.com 'hold' folder. I have checked the rule and it points to...
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    Links in email getting error message about group policy

    I updated win10 yesterday Today I get this message whenever clicking on a link in email : I haven't changed any settings. the default browser, http, and https defaults all point to browser (vivaldi). web search hasn't provided any current solutions. anyone have an idea of what broke?
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    force outlook to default to MY calendar

    I have my own calendar, "calendar-outlook email account", synced through exchange, which i have used for years. whenever outlook doesn't close properly, eg, it freezes and I have to close program on it, the next it opens it shows the "calendar-outlook" which has little of interest in it, maybe...
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    Imap account not auto syncing inbox at startup

    I open Ol16 every morning. the imap account doesn't automatically sync it's inbox. I have to click some other folder (trash, sent, whatever) then back to inbox before it will sync. the rest of day it mostly syncs automatically, but sometimes i have to go through the routine. I don't see...
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    Ol16 desktopT suddenly can't connect with Exchange

    OL16, desktop version. win10 2019. Turned on desktop computer today, opened Outlook. greeted with a request about connecting to internet. Never saw that before. Then I am getting requests for microsoft password, which eventually I figured out was for outlook.com and its syncing calendar...
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    Outlook replies not using "delivered to" address in From

    OL16 IMAP I have a main 3rd party account. This account also has 2 aliases. I have the main account and the two aliases set up as accounts in Outlook, with all 3 using the same incoming and outgoing server info. Of course, both aliases show all the same mail as the main account. I did this...
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    new labeled phone field

    OL16: I have some contacts that have more than one cell phone number. I also have an iphone. I sync OL to iphone using Companionlink (I don't think that this is instrumental to the problem). I can add a note to the cell phone number (eg " 111-111-1234 Sarah cell ") in Outlook to id the number...
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    Outlook 2019 having issues with 'people search' and not making suggestions in email To: etc

    Locally Installed version of Outlook in Office 2019, (not 365). From beginning, 3 days ago, there have been problems with finding contacts. Sometimes the entire name has to be typed. This happens in 'search people' . and not finding names when typing into email To: fields. I can use drop...
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    Replies being sent from wrong account

    Outook 2016. Win10 I have a default pop account at default@fastmail.fm, also another pop account through the same fastmail.fm account as firstalias@fastmail.fm (I guess this called an alias?) . all mail is sent and received through the default@fastmail.fm account login. In the past if I...
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    remove or turn off outlook.com contact folder from outlook 2016

    Outlook 2016, installed locally. Several times i have found the Outlook.com contact folder populated by all (or sometimes most, no idea how the choice is made) of the contacts held in my local contacts folder. This means that all these contacts are now uploaded to outlook.com site. I have no...
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    open Outlook with multiple windows.

    I believe that I asked about this some time ago. ie: if I have Outlook mail and calendar open in separate windows, how do I get them both to open the next time I start Outlook? If I simply close both windows separately only the main Outlook window will open next time. I was advised that the...
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    Helping OL remember which calendars were selected

    Since this problem continues in Outlook 2016 (Getting Outlook to remember what calendars were selected when you last used Outlook and to reselect them at start-up). Is there some registry modification that will accomplish this? I saw the thread about not using 'start in Calendar folder' or...
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