Outlook User's Solutions Center

Users are reporting a problem in Outlook 2019, 2016, and Outlook 365: the autocomplete list opens upward, not downward, and the autocomplete lines are wider than normal. Some users report the X is missing to delete autocomplete entries.

Several users are reporting a calendar error: "Could not read the calendar" when they switch to the Calendar or to the Inbox.

Users are starting to see a new app bar in Outlook on the web, on the left size of the window, not at the bottom of the folder list – and it has buttons for the online versions of the Office apps. Office 365 Premium subscribers should be familiar with the app bar in this  

When closing and reopening Outlook, options for Mark as Read, Send Immediately, Save sent items and others revert back to the defaults.

Use VBA to reset a meeting reminder to 5 minutes before meeting begins, so you don't forget.

Spammers discovered a better way to get your attention: meeting requests. A meeting request spam will add a tentative appointment to your calendar (or an accepted meeting, if you autoaccept appointments) and pop up a reminder to get your attention.

Anyone who has a lot of meetings can understand this user's request: the ability to limit the number of meetings users can schedule with him each day by making Free/Busy appear busy.

How to use an Outlook macro to move or delete messages containing spammy keywords.

How to get a count of the messages you have selected in Outlook, using a macro or copy and paste.

A user wanted to know how to create an AND rule: If the subject contains outlook AND word, do something For example: "outlook AND word" to match on a Subject line of "Mail merge Outlook and Word", but not "Outlook Teams Meeting" While Outlook Rules don't support AND within a rule, you can make it  

This macro uses Adobe Acrobat, not Reader or other PDF applications. This run a script macro will open an attached PDF file, look for a keyword and if found, forward the attachment. If the message you are forwarding contains external content, you may need to respond to a security dialog. In this case, you will  

How to enable Outlook's classic Permissions dialog to use instead of the simplified Permissions dialog.

Although you can't save new contacts directly in the iCloud contacts folder unless you select the iCloud Contacts folder before opening the new Contact form, there are a couple of options available to move new contacts to the iCloud.

When setting up iCloud to sync with Outlook, you may receive the following error message: "Your configuration could not be started due to an unknown error. (0x800706ba)".

Update: Yahoo began upgrading user accounts earlier this year to require an app password if the email client did not support oAuth2 with their servers. On October 20 2020, all Yahoo accounts will be required to use an app password if the email client does not support oAuth2 to their servers. If you are using  

The user wanted to know how to insert an emoji using VBA: Is there a way to create a VBA code to paste an emoji. For example, Unicode 128123? :ghost: I want to insert the text wherever my cursor currently is. Sure, you can do that using VBA. You'll need to use the Word Object  

How to create a Microsoft Outlook contact group or distribution list to send messages to a group of people.