I just installed Office 2013 and one thing I noticed is that Outlook now has two icons on the Taskbar when it is open. If the program is closed, only one icon is displayed.
Any additional Outlook windows also group to this icon so basically the first Outlook is only being used to open Outlook.
How can I get rid of this extra Outlook icon on the Taskbar?
Over the years I’ve created a lot of contacts and due to merging and synching of data during that time, I sadly also have quite some duplicates.
Does Outlook have an option to delete or merge these duplicate contacts?
I'm currently using a POP3 account but want to switch that to an IMAP account. Looking at my account settings, POP3 is grayed out so I can't simply change that to IMAP.
How do I change from POP3 to IMAP without losing my current emails?
I have a POP3 account configured on my main computer and on my laptop. I noticed that it does not keep track of my read/unread status and other things such as Sent Items and other folder that I have. It also does not support bringing over the contacts and appointments.
How can I easily sync these changes?
What exactly does the action "stop processing more rules" do and how/when/why should I use this when setting up rules?
I installed Outlook on my new machine and transfered the emails that I had downloaded already.
I have Outlook set to leave a copy on the server but now that I have reconfigured Outlook with my email account, it starts to download all the emails again.
How can I prevent this?
Over the years, I've created many archive files (I used to archive by month and then later by year as space became less of an issue).
I still use them as a reference sometimes and I'd like to combine them into one big archive as it is easier to manage and simplifies searching as well.
How can I merge them together?
I’ve configured a Connected Account in Outlook.com to read and reply to emails from another account that I own. This also allows me to receive them in Outlook without the need to configure an additional account.
A major downside of having a Connected Account is how long it takes for new emails to arrive. It seems that it only checks for new emails once every hour, which basically renders the feature useless to me.
Can I configure how often a Connected Account should check for new emails?
I have a recurring appointment scheduled in Outlook for which I update the subject and message body of each occurrence to more accurately describe or report the purpose of that particular occurrence.
Unfortunately, when I do a search, Outlook can’t seem to find any of the text within these exceptions even though it is perfectly capable of finding the recurring item itself or anything else.
How can I do a query to find back any of these exceptions?
I’ve created several Contact Groups in Outlook (known as Distribution Lists in previous versions of Outlook) which I use for mailings.
Due to some restructuring and increase of my sending limit, I now like to combine some of these groups into 1 group. As they hold quite a few Contacts, I don’t really feel like adding them manually or recreate the group entirely.
Is there any way I can quickly combine multiple Contact Groups into one?
Can't find what you are looking for?
More Outlook tips and information can be found at HowTo-Outlook.
