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This VBA code sample is the result of a discussion in the Microsoft Answers forum. Because of recent changes at Outlook.com, tasks, appointments, and contacts do not support attachments. You can add attachments to the items in Outlook 2013, but the attachments are hidden.

Because of recent changes at Outlook.com, tasks, appointments, and contacts do not support attachments. You can add attachments to the items in Outlook 2013, but the attachments are hidden.

When a meeting invitation is deleted from the Inbox, the tentative copy of the associated meeting remains in the Calendar.

When the junk mail is not filtering correctly, you can delete the junk mail rules in Outlook when you use an Exchange mailbox.

Recurring appointments are a problem for many users: you can't end a series without losing exceptions and no one can cancel meetings created by users who no longer have a mailbox. For this reason, we always recommend using a recurrence period of no more than a year.

I don't recommend that new users start using the Journal, but if anyone who used journal with an older version of Outlook and upgraded to Outlook 2013, can use a bit of VBA magic to autojournal documents.

I know I'm not the only person who is totally frustrated with software companies that decide to push other software on us. They do it because they get paid for every instance they install and they make a lot more money when the user is required to opt-out because very few people will opt-in. It's wrong in every way.

With the introduction of Outlook 2013 and support for EAS, users are discovering that Hotmail has limits to the number of devices they can connect using ActiveSync.

Outlook 2013 changes how IMAP accounts are handled. Instead of using two data files, Outlook 2013 uses an .ost file for IMAP accounts and stores appointments, tasks, contacts, and notes in the ost, in folders labeled "(This computer only)".