In Outlook, when you reply or forward an email message, you always have to close the original one, which is its default setting. Here’s how to make it close automatically.
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Add an Outlook.com or Hotmail Account to Microsoft Outlook Using the Hotmail Connector
The Microsoft Office Hotmail Connector is a must have install if you want to use Microsoft Outlook with an Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live email account. Here’s how to configure it.
Outlook.com POP3 and SMTP Settings for Microsoft Outlook
If you’re using Outlook.com, these are the POP3 and SMTP server settings to use since IMAP is not currently supported with Outlook.com accounts.
Find the Microsoft Outlook Temporary OLK folder
Microsoft Outlook creates a Temporary or OLK folder where it stores attachments opened while reading emails. Here’s how to find it and your lost attachments.
Direct Email Replies to a Different Recipient in Outlook 2007 — 2013
Do you often send out emails where you’d like the replies to go to an additional inbox? Microsoft Outlook has a feature that will allow that without any fancy mailing groups set up on the server level.
How To Password Protect an Outlook PST File
If you’re on a shared computer without separate user accounts, you don’t want the other user(s) looking at your private email. Here’s how to password protect your Personal Folder (.pst) file in Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010.
How to Automatically Change Incoming “Important” Emails into Normal Emails When Using Microsoft Outlook 2010
Have you ever received an email from someone marked as “IMPORTANT!” only to find out that it is some end-of-the-world hoax chain-email that is going around? I’ve had my fair share, and I’ve also had enough. The importance flag for emails in Outlook and elsewhere has been abused beyond forgiveness, and it’s time to make […]
How-To Clear the Outlook Email Address Auto Complete Cache
How to clear the Outlook autocomplete cache in Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003 and remove old email addresses from your nk2 file.
How-To Save MS Office 2007 documents as a PDF or XPS
Shortly after upgrading to Microsoft Office 2007 I ran across this nice FREE add-on from Microsoft which allows you to save your documents in the Adobe PDF or Microsoft XPS format using all eight Microsoft Office 2007 applications. I use the feature almost daily so I’m sure all you groovyReaders will appreciate the find! […]
How to Import Multiple Contacts into Gmail from Outlook, Mail or Thunderbird
Moving from Outlook, Mail or Thunderbird to Gmail can be a real chore. If you have all of your contacts saved into a single vCard or vcf file exported from Outlook or Mail or whatever email client you were using before, then importing contacts into Gmail is significantly easier. But if you made the unfortunate […]
Aw Snap, Latest Outlook 2007 Update is Causing Issues- Mass Recall
Microsoft recently identified some critical flaws in Outlook 2007 update KB2412171. The update was released December 14th and has been wreaking havoc on Outlook users ever since. The bugs aren’t causing critical failures of the application so you may not even notice it however, chances are if you’ve used Outlook 2007 lately you already have […]
Office Tools: Print Overlain Calendars in Outlook with Calendar Printing Assistant
Outlook 2007 introduced a groovy feature where you can overlay multiple calendars in order to see two or more sets of appointments on a single calendar. This is similar to the feature you see in Google Calendars when you view multiple shared calendars at once. Overlain Outlook calendars is a great way to get your […]
How to Add National Holidays to the Outlook Calendar
Any good calendar will at least list Nationally holidays. A great calendar will show even more. Both Outlook 2010 and 2013 don’t have any holiday information displayed by default, but you can enable it quite easily. Follow along to see how.
Forgotten Attachment Detector Warns of Missing Attachments in Microsoft Outlook
Forgotten Attachment Detector from Microsoft Office Labs is going to change your life. I don’t know about the rest of you Microsoft Outlook 2010 users, but every time someone sends me an email where they’ve forgotten an attachment, my regard for their intelligence is debased by two full percentage points. To make them feel even […]