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Create a rule to delete mail after a number of days
You can combine a Rules Wizard rule with the AutoArchive feature of Microsoft Outlook to automatically delete messages as they age. There are two ways you can do this: Create a rule that moves messages meeting certain criteria to a folder. Configure the folder's Archive setting to delete messages. Setting an expire date on messages
View Outlook app's Calendar in monthly view?
A user wanted to know how to view the calendar in the Outlook app on their smartphone in a monthly view. While it doesn’t have a traditional full month view, it has day, week, and agenda views, with 2 weeks at the top of the agenda or day view.
Join the Outlook.com beta
If you haven’t yet had your fill of Microsoft betas, also known as Insider builds, and use the Outlook.com website, you can join the Outlook.com beta and try “new product innovations” that are considered for Outlook.com.
PST Capture Tool for Exchange Server and Office 365 Migrations
Microsoft developed a PST Capture tool that will help administrators search the network and discover pst files - then import them directly into users' primary mailboxes or archives.
Downgrade Office 2016 to Office 2013
Office 365 (consumer or business) subscribers who upgraded to Office 2016 and want to revert to Office 2013 are now able to downgrade to Office 2013.
Response to this meeting request will not be tallied
When you create a meeting request in a secondary calendar, you'll get a message that responses to the meeting request won't tally because the meeting is not in your default calendar: This meeting is not in the Calendar folder for this account. Responses to this meeting will not be tallied. Do you want to send anyway?
How to print a list of recurring dates using VBA
A favorite request is the ability to see what dates a recurring appointment or meeting is scheduled for. You can use VBA to create a list of all dates in an recurring appointment or meeting.
Use VBA to Email Tomorrow's Agenda
How to use VBA to create and email a daily agenda with your upcoming appointments, each evening.
To Make Automatic Reply Rules
Using Microsoft Outlook, you can create rules to reply automatically to incoming messages with the Rules Wizard and Out of Office Assistant.
Large Fonts in Messages Sent by Outlook
We're seeing complaints that some parts of a message have characters 10 times larger than expected. The problem comes and goes, and doesn't affect all messages. When I send an email, the recipient receives my message with parts of the message having 120pt font characters. It's not reproducible. The cause is an antivirus scanner scanning