Use these tips and tricks to make your email tasks in Outlook more efficient and productive.
If you use several email accounts with Outlook, create several email signatures.
If your Outlook program sends attachments as Winmail.dat, it could confuse and concern recipients.
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Configure Outlook to see to it it does not send winmail.dat attachments to mail recipients.
These graphics are called in-line images and automatically display in the body of an email message.
Specify the precise font, style, and color to use by default for emails in Outlook.
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Increase the size of the text in your email messages in Outlook.
A do-it-yourself list works great for home users who don’t have access to a corporate distribution list.
Create backup copies of your Personal Folders (.pst) files the files where this information is saved.
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Creating a backup is as easy as copying the file to a second location.
Set the default account when you have more than one account connected to Outlook.
Make your favorite options your default in Outlook.
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Set the limit to match that of your email server so emails don’t bounce back as undeliverable.
Making this change helps avoid unnecessary Outlook errors, too.
If you preserve your Outlook contacts as a CSV file, you could easily import them elsewhere.
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Outlook supports imports if the underlying file is a supported jot down, like a CSV document.
Edit a Received Message in Outlook
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Outlook makes editing received emails easy.
Use this technique to adjust subject lines and other important information.
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This preserves all the metadata of the original message, which is useful especially in troubleshooting or legal contexts.
Use this feature to quickly find them for reference.
Restore this important email information from a saved version of your PST file.
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Instead, save all files attached to an email to a folder at once.
This technique is useful when you receive emails from several email addresses associated with the same account.
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To permanently erase it, purge the messages marked for deletion in the IMAP folder.
Move Email Messages Quickly in Outlook
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Use keyboard shortcuts to quickly move emails.
It’s easy to set up shortcuts to file mail in Outlook.
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Turn off the Outlook Reading Pane
Do you prefer not to have messages open automatically?
Do you like the flow of a preview pane-free message list?
Here are two ways to disable Outlook’s reading pane for all folders, and by default.
This tweak helps if you work better with larger throw in.
Here’s how to set up AOL screen name as IMAP email accounts in Outlook.
That way, the next time you click a mail-to link, Outlook opens.
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Download mail from a free Yahoo Mail address into Outlook.
And send through Yahoo!
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