Articles in Outlook Category

When you use an IMAP account in Outlook 2013, appointments and contacts are stored in the IMAP data file. Create a local pst file and move the appointments and contacts to the local data file.

Rename the email account names and the data files names seen in Outlook's folder list. Works in Outlook 2013 as well as older versions of Outlook.

Outlook 2010 hotfixes and updates released in 2012

Information about Outlook 2013 updates and hotfixes released in 2013.

Outlook 2010 released three hotfixes on February 12 2013. KB2597090 addresses an issues where Outlook freezes when you try to download an offline address book (OAB) that is outside a firewall. KB2760799 fixes an issue where Room Finder doesn't properly populate the room list. KB2760764 addresses several issues, including: Meetings with Show time as set  

How to import a backup copy of a .wab file and to Outlook installed on Windows 7 or 8,

How to remove the Most Recently Used (MRU) lists from Outlook. This includes the Location field in Appointments, recent Signatures, recent Business cards, and the Recent Searches list.

How to configure Outlook 2013 IMAP accounts to get the full flag follow-up options (tomorrow, next week, etc.) and use a custom quick-step that saves email as task with text.

I'm not a big fan of the People Hub view in Outlook 2013's contacts. It's too cluttered, it's confusing. While you can edit contacts in the contact cards, it supports only the main contact fields. If you want to edit the contact photo and add (or open) attachments, you need to open the full contact.

I think every release of Outlook had at least one printing bug slip though the beta testing phase because so few people print calendars and Outlook 2013 kept up the tradition. This time around, the bug is with the Calendar details style: Appointments are duplicated in the print out.