How to Back Up a Specific Folder in Outlook 2016
Outlook 2016 offers a number of different tools that help you sort your emails automatically. This is accomplished with rules, which can even be configured …
Microsoft Outlook How-To Guides
Articles to help you make changes to or fix problems that you are experiencing with Microsoft Outlook applications like Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, and Outlook.com.
Not sure where to start? Check out our featured Microsoft Outlook guides below:
- How to Add a Folder in Outlook – if you want to improve the organization of your inbox, then adding folders can be a big help.
- How to Set Out of Office in Outlook – let your contacts know that you are unavailable with an out-of-office reply.
- How to Create a Distribution List in Outlook – quickly send an email to a pre-defined group of contacts with Outlook distribution lists.
Outlook.com – How to Empty Deleted Items When Signing Out
When you delete an item from your inbox in Outlook.com, it gets moved to the Deleted Items folder. That item will remain in that location …
How to Hide Sender Initials and Pictures in Outlook.com
When you view your Outlook.com emails in a Web browser, you have probably noticed a small circle to the left of the sender’s name. Sometimes …
How to Turn Off Link Previews in Outlook.com
With the default settings in Outlook.com email, a preview of a linked Web page is shown whenever you add a hyperlink to an email that …
Outlook.com – How to Show the BCC Field
When you write emails to some of your contacts, situations may arise where you want to include someone on the email, but you don’t want …
Outlook.com – How to Play a Sound When New Email Arrives
People have different feelings and preferences when it comes to notifications. Some people want to get all the notifications they can, and the more intrusive …
Outlook.com – How to Turn Off Read Receipts
Read receipts are something that many email providers will let you include when you send an email to someone. If the receiver chooses to send …
How to Hide the Reading Pane in Outlook.com Inbox
The Outlook desktop application has been popular for businesses and residential users for years because of how great the interface is and how many options …
How to Stop Grouping Messages by Conversation in Outlook.com
When you are participating in an email chain with other people, there will inevitably be a number of messages that contain bits of information that …
How to Turn On or Turn Off the Outlook.com Focused Inbox
Managing emails can be difficult when you receive a lot of promotional and junk emails in your inbox. Many email providers are switching to an …
How to Delete a Folder in Outlook 2013
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 …
How to Add the Developer Tab in Outlook 2013
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 …
How to Forward an Email as an Attachment in Outlook 2013
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 …
How to View Message Source in Outlook 2013
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, …
How to Add a Send and Receive Button to the Quick Access Toolbar in Outlook 2013
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. …
How to Run AutoArchive in Outlook 2013
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 …
How to View the List of Blocked Senders in Outlook 2013
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 …
How to Alphabetize Folder Lists in Outlook 2013
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 …
How to Enable Troubleshooting Logging in Outlook 2013
If you are experiencing problems with Microsoft Outlook, then it’s possible that you have sought out help in resolving the problem that you are having. …
How to Disable the Confirmation Before Permanently Deleting in Outlook 2013
Deleting items from your inbox and other locations in Outlook will send those items to a separate Deleted Items folder. However, depending on your current …
How to Export Rules in Outlook 2013
Using rules in Microsoft Outlook 2013 is one of the best ways to quickly and consistently sort your email messages. You can even use rules …
How to Create a vCard in Outlook 2013
Email programs like Microsoft Outlook 2013 have a lot of different ways that you can share information with your contacts. A good way to do …
How to Rename a Folder in Outlook 2013
There are a lot of different ways to use Microsoft Outlook but, if you receive a lot of emails to a particular account, you might …
How to Remove a Hyperlink from an Email Message in Outlook 2013
Outlook 2013 will automatically create a hyperlink when you enter certain types of information into an email message. This is most common with Web page …
Why Isn’t the Original Message Included When I Reply in Outlook 2013?
If you send a lot of emails throughout the day, then it’s very possible that you do not remember the context of every conversation you …
How to Direct a Reply to a Different Address in Outlook 2013
If you send an email to someone, they can respond to that message by clicking the Reply button in their email client. By default, this …
How to Remove Formatting from an Email in Outlook
Sending an email is often the fastest way to share information from your desktop or laptop computer. The ability to copy and paste information into …
How to Find Your PST File in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Outlook 2013 stores your emails in one large file with the file extension of .pst. If you are setting up a new computer and …
How to Click an Outlook 2013 Hyperlink Without Holding Ctrl
If someone sends you an email message in Outlook 2013, and that message contains a hyperlink, then you will need to hold down the Ctrl …
How to Always Make Outlook 2013 Spell Check a Message Before Sending
Spell checkers in document editing programs like Microsoft Word are helpful in ensuring that you have minimized the number of errors that are present in …
How to Enable Manual Send and Receive in Outlook 2013
Outlook 2013 offers a lot of options for the way it handles mail, including the ability to only send and receive email messages when you …
How to Send a Word 2013 Document as the Body of an Email in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Office products, such as Word and Outlook, are often compatible with one another for tasks where their functionality overlaps. For example, you might have …
How to Create an Email from a Template in Outlook 2013
A template in Microsoft Outlook 2013 can help speed up the process of sending the same email multiple times. By creating and saving a template, …
How to Work Offline in Outlook 2013
Outlook 2013 has a number of different ways to alert you to new messages. This is very helpful when you need to work in other …
How to Delete a Signature in Outlook 2013
Email signatures offer a simple and uniform way to provide your email contacts with the information that you think is important. It can also save …
How to Remove a Picture from an Outlook 2013 Email Signature
We have previously written about adding a picture to an Outlook 2013 signature as a way to include your company’s logo, or any other picture, in …
How to Add a Picture to a Signature in Outlook 2013
Have you received an email from someone that was using a picture in their email signature, and you wish that you could do that, too? …
How to Turn Off the Blue Outlook 2013 Notification Box
It is pretty common for Outlook 2013 users to have the email program open on their desktop or laptop computer while they perform other tasks. Outlook …
How to Disable Live Preview in Outlook 2013
You can configure a lot of different elements concerning the way that Outlook 2013 behaves. This includes options such as increasing the frequency at which …
How to Empty Deleted Items on Exit in Outlook 2013
Outlook 2013 comes with some default settings that are going to be fine for some users, but many people that use Outlook every day will …
How to Show the Recipient’s Name in the Outlook 2013 Sent Items Folder
It’s rare that Outlook 2013 will work exactly how you want it to with the default settings, and certain options, such as how often Outlook …
How to Change the Default Startup Folder in Outlook 2013
When you first launch Outlook 2013, there is a strong chance that it will open directly to your inbox. This is the default behavior for …
How to Change the Message Format in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Outlook 2013 has three different email formats from which you can choose when you are sending a new message, or replying or forwarding an …
How to Change the Font Color in Outlook 2013
Like other Microsoft Office programs, Outlook 2013 allows you to change much of the formatting for text that you type. One of the format options …
How to Stop Previewed Messages from Being Marked as Read in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Outlook 2013 can mark your email messages as read when you select them in the Reading Pane. Unfortunately, if you use the Reading Pane …
How to Change the Default Importance Level in Outlook 2013
Are you often applying tags for the importance of your emails in Microsoft Outlook? While this only takes a couple of steps, it might be …
How to Turn Off AutoComplete in Outlook 2013
For those on a quick clock: To turn off AutoComplete in Outlook 2013, simply head to the File tab, click Options, select the Mail tab, …
How to Set Email Priority in Outlook 2013
You can set the priority of an Outlook 2013 email by opening Outlook and creating a new email, then clicking the Message tab and choosing …
Where Did the Navigation Bar Go in Outlook 2013?
There are a number of different tools, features, and panes that could potentially be displayed in Microsoft Outlook 2013. Since you have some control over …
How to Hide the Folder Pane in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Outlook 2013 makes great use of the space that it takes up on your screen. Almost every inch of the program window is filled …