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Outlook User's Solutions Center was last modified: January 29th, 2018 by Slipstick

Make 'Today' stand out more in the calendar

How to change the calendar color or use conditional formatting rules to highlight appointments starting today to make 'Today" more visible on your Outlook calendar.

Clean up the Junk Email folder

How to use Rules or a macro to clear spam from Outlook's Junk Email folder.

Use VBA to Scan to Email

How to scan a document or image and attach or embed into an Outlook email using VBA and the Windows Image Acquisition Library (WIA).

View Read Receipt Request Indicator

All current versions of Outlook include a Read Receipt field, including Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016/2019/365. To see the Read Receipt indicator, you need to customize the view by adding the Receipt Requested field. For best results, you will need to use the Single Line view to see the read request field. To add the field  

Delete folders using a macro or PowerShell

Use an Outlook macro or PowerShell script to bulk delete folders from Outlook.

Use PowerShell to Bulk Change Contacts

How to use PowerShell to bulk change Outlook Contact fields, including the File As and Email display name fields.

Warn Before Sending: Checking Contact Categories

Warn before sending mail macro: Check recipients contacts for specific categories before sending.

The Help function is disabled in Office apps

How to solve error message: This command isn't available: Your organization's administrator turned off the service required to use this feature

Remove Cancelled Meeting Requests from Resource Calendar

How to remove cancelled meetings from an Exchange server resource calendar.

Delay sending a message with Outlook closed?

How to delay sending email messages with Outlook closed when you use a Microsoft Exchange or Office 365 mailbox.

Using Outlook’s Send to OneNote button

Use Outlook's Send to OneNote button to send Outlook items to the Onenote app.

Fixed: Outlook displays all messages in plain text

Another week, another update bug. This bug has a very narrow audience: users with ANSI pst files (Outlook 97 - 2002 format) in their profile. Affected users have all mail displayed in plain text format.

Outlook Folder List: Unread Message Count Position

A recent update to Office 365 changed the position of the unread (or total) message count in Outlook’s folder list from following the folder name to right justified.

Use PowerShell to Export and Import Categories

How to use PowerShell to export, import or merge categories in different Outlook mailboxes.

Outlook Mobile apps and Government Cloud Accounts (GCC)

Recent changes to Office 365 tenants to be FedRAMP-compliant is causing problems for some users with personal and government email accounts in the Outlook apps for Android and iOS.

Search Calendars for Appointments

A user had a number of calendars, both in his own mailboxes plus a handful of shared calendars. While Outlook can search all of the calendars, he wanted an easy way to restrict the searches to specific calendars and also see which calendar the appointment was on. The solution: a macro. We used the macro  

Using Outlook's AutoArchive Feature

All versions of Microsoft Outlook support Archiving. Learn how to configure Microsoft Outlook's AutoArchive settings and how to manually archive your mailbox.

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  • Outlook's Rules and Alerts: Run a Script
  • Create rules that apply to an entire domain
  • Change your Password and Server Settings in Outlook 2016
  • Change the Folder sort order in Outlook's Folder list
  • Clean up the Junk Email folder
  • Use VBA to Scan to Email
  • View Read Receipt Request Indicator
  • Delete folders using a macro or PowerShell
  • Use PowerShell to Bulk Change Contacts
  • The Help function is disabled in Office apps
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Clean up the Junk Email folder

Use VBA to Scan to Email

Delete folders using a macro or PowerShell

Use PowerShell to Bulk Change Contacts

Warn Before Sending: Checking Contact Categories

Use PowerShell to Export and Import Categories

Search Calendars for Appointments

Delete duplicate messages using a macro

Resize images in an Outlook email

Update Folder Permissions using VBA

Recent Bugs List

Microsoft keeps a running list of issues affecting recently released updates at Fixes or workarounds for recent issues in Outlook for Windows.

Office Update History

Update history for supported Office versions is at Update history for Office

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Windows 10 Issues

  • iCloud, Outlook 2016, and Windows 10
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  • BCM Errors after Upgrading to Windows 10
  • Outlook can’t send mail in Windows 10: error Ox800CCC13
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Outlook 2016 Top Issues

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  • Calendars aren’t printing in color
  • The Signature or Stationery and Fonts button doesn’t work
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  • BCM Errors after October 2017 Outlook Update
  • Excel Files Won’t Display in Reading Pane
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Convert an OST to PST

Repair damaged PST file

Repair large PST File

Remove password from PST

Merge Two Data Files

Sync & Share Outlook Data

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  • Access Folders in Other Users Mailboxes

Convert to / from Outlook

  • Converting Messages and Calendar or
    Address books
  • Moving Outlook to a New Computer
  • Moving Outlook 2010 to a new Windows computer
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Recover Deleted Items

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