I’ve been granted delegate access to the Calendar folder of my manager. He uses various color coded categories for his appointments.

While I can see all his appointments when I access his Calendar folder, I can’t see any of the color coding anymore.

How can I see the color coding of his Calendar as a delegate?

When I compose an email in Outlook, I get these red squiggly underlines when I misspelled a word. When I compose my message in Outlook Web App (OWA), I do not get these.

Is there any way to enable this instant spell check for OWA as well?

I recently deleted some old Calendar and Contact folders which I thought I no longer needed. However, it appears that I do. I haven’t emptied my Deleted Items folder in a while so these folders must still be there.

Sometimes, there is an indication that the Deleted Items folder is containing sub folders but when I click on the triangle to expand the Deleted Items folder, it just disappears and doesn’t show anything.

How can I recover them and why is the triangle disappearing?

I prefer to use the Calendar in the Month view but then it doesn’t display all my appointments for a specific day. Instead, it shows a grey arrow icon on which you have to click to show all the appointments but this takes you to the Day view.

Is there any way to get all the appointments to show in the Month view?

I frequently use the drag & drop method to add an attachment to an email directly from Explorer rather than using the Attach File button.

However, as of recently, this method no longer works for me. When I try, the cursor turns into some sort of a forbidden/blocked/unavailable sign.

Is there any way I can reinstate the “drag & drop to attach” feature again?

In Outlook Web App (OWA), I prefer to have the Reading Pane at the bottom but since I have been upgraded to OWA on Exchange 2013, my Reading Pane is on the right again and I can’t find a way to change that to the bottom.

In OWA 2010, this option was under a View button at the top of my message list where I could also disable Conversation View. In addition, I don’t want the message list to show the first line of the email either. I just want things back to the way I had it configured in OWA 2010.

How can I configure all this in OWA 2013?

I’m trying to sort my Contacts a bit more effectively but I’m a bit at a loss at what the best approach is.

There seem to be various options such as creating additional Contact (sub) folders, creating groups and using Categories.

Which approach is the best or would you recommend?

When I look at the Reminders Windows, I notice that the reminders aren’t listed chronologically.

My 6 reminders are now sorted like this:

1. 15 hours overdue
2. 4 days overdue
3. 3 days overdue
4. 5 weeks overdue
5. 7 weeks overdue
6. 4 weeks overdue

Why is it sorted like this and how can I change the sort order?

For years I’ve been using the same pst-file with Outlook and it now has grown quite big (it currently is 5.6GB).

To speed up Outlook and backup performance, I thought about splitting up my pst-file into multiple files. As data will no longer change in these pst-files, I would no longer have to include them in my daily backups.

Is there any way I could split up my pst-file into yearly archives?

Call me old but I can’t seem to keep up anymore with what exactly is meant with Outlook, Outlook.com Office, Office 365 and logging on with Outlook.com or Microsoft Accounts to Windows and Office.

What is what exactly and what do I use it for when?