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Using Outlook Email

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The Email section at Slipstick covers general email issues in Outlook. Some of the more common problems are linked below.

Usage | Problems & Limitations | Troubleshooting | More Information

Usage

  • Add Attachments and Set Email Fields During a Mail Merge
  • Adding an Image to a Signature
  • Automatically BCC All Messages
  • Change the Subject of an Incoming Message
  • Changing the Reply format revisited
  • Check Message Size Before Sending
  • Choosing the Folder to Save a Sent Message In
  • Designate the Account Used to Send a Message
  • Download Only Messages Smaller than 30kb
  • Find All Unread Messages
  • To Change the Font on Incoming Messages
  • To Change the Look of Outlook Replies
  • To Work with Outlook While it's Getting Messages
  • Understanding Outlook's Auto-Complete Cache (*.NK2)
  • Understanding the Flag for Follow Up Reminder Time
  • Using Automatic name checking or Autocomplete

Microsoft Knowledgebase articles

  • Send To Mail Recipient Opens an Outlook Plain Text Message
  • Add and request read receipts and delivery notifications

Problems & Limitations

  • Do You Want to Send This Message Without a Subject?
  • Help! Every email I send has two unknown attachments
  • Messages are Double Spaced for the Recipient
  • Setting Margins when Composing Email
  • To Use Internet-Style Quoting

Microsoft Knowledgebase articles

  • E-mail messages are not automatically sent or received at startup in Outlook
  • "Send Time" time stamp information is incorrect when you send a delayed delivery message in Outlook

Troubleshooting

  • Adjusting Outlook's Zoom Setting in Email
  • Can't Rename Windows Folder: Folder in Use Error
  • Outlook is Sending Winmail.dat Attachments

Microsoft Knowledgebase articles

  • How to turn on the Enable Mail Logging option for troubleshooting in Outlook via registry key

Addins and Utilities

The following pages contain lists of add-ins and utilities.

  • Compose Tools for Outlook
  • Compression Tools for Outlook
  • Decoder Tools for Outlook
  • HTML Stationery collections and tools for Outlook
  • Mail Notification Tools
  • Mail Tools for Outlook
  • Mass Mail Tools for Outlook
  • Message Extraction Tools
  • Previewing Messages and Attachments
  • Sending and Retrieval Tools
Using Outlook Email was last modified: October 10th, 2023 by Slipstick

Understanding the Flag for Follow Up Reminder Time

Outlook's flag for follow up reminder time defaults to 4:00PM when the flag is set for Today.

How to move email from another program to Outlook

How to migrate mail from another email client to Outlook.

Attachment size warning

Outlook's Default Attachment Size

Outlook has a default limit of 20 MB for sending email messages, which is about right for most ISPs. When you try to send a large message, Outlook lets you know that the message is too large before the message is sent to the Outbox. You can change the limit by editing the registry.

default data file

Messages are sent from the wrong account

When sending mail from other applications, such as accounting or invoicing applications, messages will be sent from the email account associated with the default data file, not the default email account.

Designate the Account Used to Send a Message

If you have multiple accounts configured in Outlook, you can choose the sending account when composing the message. By default, the account that downloaded the message will be used to send any reply. New messages are sent using the account assigned to the data file you are currently viewing.

Change the autocorrect options

Apostrophe & quotation marks are inserted with extra spaces

Every so often we see a question from someone asking why Outlook adds an extra space following apostrophes. This isn’t an Outlook problem, but it is a sign we spend too much time in Outlook… This is caused by Contextual spelling in Office and using French language settings (If you aren't using French language settings  

Templates are Converted to Plain Text Messages

This issue (and many others) was originally fixed by the July 11 hotfix and were rolled into the August 30 2011 update. Description of the Outlook 2010 hotfix package (x86 Outlook-x-none.msp; x64 Outlook-x-none.msp): August 30, 2011 Users who create templates in Outlook 2010 are discovering that the resulting messages are converted to plain text when  

Contact pictures display in Outlook messages

Stop Showing Contact Pictures in Messages

You can add photos (or logos) to contacts in Outlook 2003 and up. When you add the photo, it displays in the Business card layout and also in the business card view in Contacts. This can be disabled.

Internet Zone Security settings

Links are Prefixed with BLOCKED::

When you receive an HTML message, links in it may not work or the File, Open dialog will open, asking to associate an executable file with the link. Looking at the source, you'll see the URL is prefixed with BLOCKED::, like this: <A title=//office.microsoft.com/ href="BLOCKED:://office.microsoft.com/">Office Online</a> This is a security feature in Outlook and may  

Choose the account to send a reply from

By default, Outlook always replies to and forwards mail using the account the message arrived on. Most of the time, this is how most of us want Outlook to handle our accounts. But there are times when you might want to send the reply from a different account. We show you how to do this.

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