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Disappearing All Day Events

There is a bug in the Calendar's Day and Week view that causes all day events to disappear when the window size changes. Adjusting either Outlook's window size (either the height or width) or the calendar size (by adjusting the width of the navigation pane or to-do bar) will show or hide the all day  

Outlook is Sending Winmail.dat Attachments

Outlook uses a proprietary email format that only Outlook and Exchange (and a few other clients, including gmail) can decipher. When the recipient doesn't use Outlook, they get plain text message and an attachment named winmail.dat (the attachment icon may be hidden by some clients, including OE and Windows Mail). Any attachments included in the message are encased in the winmail.dat attachment.

Problem: Do you want to save changes?

When you open or view a message that contains graphics or open an attachment and a message similar to this: "The properties of the message "subject" have been changed. Do you want to save changes to this message?" when you haven't changed anything other than read the message. When the message is HTML format with  

Outlook is asking me to accept the End User License Agreement

We get many questions about Office activation failing: "After installing and activating Office, Outlook keeps asking to accept the End User License Agreement (EULA)." This is caused by Windows security and permissions. Your Windows user account doesn't have the necessary permissions to write the activation to the registry. How to Fix Method 1: Right click  

Outlook Errors When You Reply or Create a New Message

Solution for issue for Microsoft Outlook crashing when replying to messages or creating new messages or Sending reported error (0x8004010F) : 'Outlook data file cannot be accessed.'

OUTLOOK.EXE continues running after you exit Outlook

Problem: After closing Outlook, it continues to run. Outlook can't close properly if another application is accessing Outlook's message store and you need open the Task Manager and End Process.

Problem: Outlook won't open forwarded messages (*.MSG)

If you receive an error when opening forwarded messages (sent as attachments), uninstall Google Desktop Search or revert to the previously installed version. Reports indicate that opening Settings, Options and removing the check from the "Use Documents and Spreadsheets to open certain file types" box corrects the problem without uninstalling GDS. If it doesn't help,  

Outlook could not create the work file

The “Outlook could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable.” error is more common after an upgrade of the operating system. It's the result of a corrupted temporary internet cache variable, possibly caused by the upgrading the OS or using Easy Transfer to move settings to a new computer. Fixing it is  

Problem: WordMail Busy or Unavailable

If Microsoft Outlook 97 takes a long time to display a message and gives either of these error messages: WordMail is busy or unavailable This form requires Word as your e-mail editor, but Word is either busy or cannot be found. You may have Word Viewer set as the default application for .doc files. See  

Outlook Virus Misconceptions

We used to think that you had to open or, in some case, preview a message for it to infect your system with a virus. It's now been proven that malicious code can enter your system via an Outlook mail message from the Internet -- even if you do not open or preview it. The  

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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

Google Workspace and Outlook with POP Mail

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Opening PST files in New Outlook

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