Many popular calendar applications and services let you export your calendar as an .ics file. This type of file is compatible with many programs, including Microsoft Outlook. If you have previously exported a calendar from someplace else and added it to Outlook, then it’s very likely that it was an .ics file. But you may […]

Microsoft Outlook 2013 is a popular program for people to manage their emails and contacts for work or personal purposes. The interface is simple yet powerful and, as many Outlook users keep the application open on their computer all day, it’s helpful to put your important information, like a calendar, in that location. Fortunately Outlook […]

Do you have a lot of emails in a folder in your Outlook account, and you want to delete all of them? While you might have found a way to do this by manually selecting the emails, there’s actually an option on a shortcut menu that lets you delete all of the items in an […]

Brand new email accounts usually have a handful of folders by default. But if you are a heavy email user with a full inbox, finding the right email can be a chore. One way to alleviate this problem is to create new folders for your emails, and use rules to automatically sort the messages that […]

Microsoft Outlook affords you the ability to perform a lot of complex email-related tasks. It has a lot of benefits over the Web-based email clients offered by many providers, but it’s possible that you can do even more with Outlook 2013 than you realize. There is an additional ribbon tab that you can enable in […]

Have you noticed that Outlook often marks your emails as read, even when you haven’t actually read the email? This occurs because of a setting in Outlook 2013 where an email is marked as read when the selected message in the inbox changes. Essentially, any time a message is highlighted in your inbox, that message […]

Many of the emails that you receive in Outlook 2013 can be acted upon almost immediately. Whether it’s deleting it, moving it to your Junk folder, or replying to it, emails that are actionable upon receipt are quite common. But occasionally you might have an email that will require you attention later, such as a […]

Have you ever needed to forward an email message to someone, but you wanted a way to do it where the message was a separate attachment? Fortunately Outlook 2013 lets you manage attachments like this with a feature that will transform the original message into an attachment. So rather than forwarding an email in the […]

Certain types of emails that you send and receive in Microsoft Outlook share some similarities with Web pages. These emails are in the HTML format, and the appearance and formatting of the information contained within those emails is handled by HTML and CSS. You might be familiar with viewing the source code of a Web […]

You may find yourself often clicking the Send and Receive button in Outlook 2013 if you feel that you aren’t getting your messages fast enough. This button is located in the navigational ribbon, at the far-right end of the Home tab. But you might be interested in adding that button to the toolbar at the […]