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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Have you ever needed to forward an email message to someone, or a group of people, 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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Your email inbox can easily get out of hand if you receive a high number of messages every day. Managing an inbox with thousands of emails isn’t any fun, and it can have a negative impact on how well Outlook 2013 is running. One way to manage this is by archiving old emails. You may … Read more
Spammers and annoying email contacts are probably the worst part of managing your email inbox. You may have marked those messages as junk, or unsubscribed from a newsletter, but that doesn’t always have the effect that you would hope. Luckily Outlook 2013 lets you block senders, which will stop messages from those senders from appearing … Read more
Depending upon the way you use your email account, proper sorting may be a crucial aspect to how you stay organized. This can involve custom folders that you either sort to with a set of rules, or to which you manually drag and drop email messages. Whichever method you employ in your Outlook 2013 installation, … Read more