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What Moved a Message to the Junk E-mail Folder?

How did the message get in Outlook's Junk Email folder? Check the InfoBar.

Control Link Formatting in Email Signatures

A user asked: "I have my email address in my Outlook signature without a link and blue underline. When I compose email, it looks fine. However, the recipients get a link with a blue underline. How do I control this? " As long as you use HTML message format, you can control the link color  

Why is there a leading dash in the business card view?

Outlook users are a great source of interesting and unusual problems to solve, like the problem in this question: "Some of my contacts have a dash (-) showing in the business card title bar. Because it is leading, it is alphabetizing the contacts using the dash first. That messes everything up. There is no dash  

Creating Distribution Lists from Address Lists

Create an Outlook Contact Group from a list of addresses using only copy and paste. No need to create contacts for the addresses first.

Find the Distribution Lists a Contact Belongs to

How to use VBA to create a list of the distribution lists (contact groups) your Outlook Contacts belong to.

Bulk Change File As Format for Contacts

Outlook Contacts offer a number of File As formats and this format can be used for the contact's name display in the Address Book. If you want to change the FileAs format on all of your contacts at once, you can use VBA. Complete, ready-to-use code is available.

Bulk Change Email Display Name Format

Use a macro to make changes to any Outlook contact field, by folder or by selection.

Outlook and Exchange Distribution Lists

A distribution list is a group of e-mail addresses, usually grouped under a single e-mail address. When you send to a distribution list, you're really sending to everyone whose address is included in the list. It's much easier than picking 30 different addresses from the Address Book. Outlook 2000 and Later Distribution Lists | Global  

Help! My Contacts are being updated!

When Contacts are automatically updated, you need to check the settings in Outlook's Social Connector, which has automatic updates of contacts enabled by default. A change log is added to notes so you know what was changed.

Contacts are not available in Windows Fax & Scan

Problem: When you use Windows 64-bit Fax and Scan application, Outlook's contacts are not available. Cause: This is because Outlook is a 32-bit application and runs on a WOW layer on the 64-bit operating system. Outlook 2010 or 2013 64-bit does not include Fax transport as its only supported in 32-bit Outlook. We do not  

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Deleting Auto-Complete Entries No Longer Works

Sync Issues and Errors with Gmail and Yahoo accounts

Error Opening iCloud Appointments in Classic Outlook

Opt out of Microsoft 365 Companion Apps

Mail Templates in Outlook for Windows (and Web)

Urban legend: Microsoft Deletes Old Outlook.com Messages

Buttons in the New Message Notifications

Move Deleted Items to Another Folder Automatically

Open Outlook Templates using PowerShell

Count and List Folders in Classic Outlook

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Open Outlook Templates using PowerShell

Count and List Folders in Classic Outlook

Insert Word Document into Email using VBA

Warn Before Deleting a Contact

Use PowerShell to Delete Attachments

Remove RE:, FWD:, and Other Prefixes from Subject Line

Change the Mailing Address Using PowerShell

Categorize @Mentioned Messages

Send an Email When You Open Outlook

Delete Old Calendar Events using VBA

Repair PST

Convert an OST to PST

Repair damaged PST file

Repair large PST File

Remove password from PST

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