How to Empty the Deleted Items Folder in Outlook 2013
When you delete an email message from your Inbox in Outlook 2013, or you delete a contact that you no longer need, those items are …
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.
How to Turn Off the Attachment Previewer in Outlook 2013
If you have Outlook 2013 set up to use the Preview panel, then you have probably noticed that you can view a preview of an …
How to Allow Outlook 2013 to Connect to the Internet
We have previously written about enabling or disabling the weather bar in Outlook 2013, but there is a specific situation where the setting for the …
How to Show the From Field in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Outlook 2013 can handle multiple email accounts at the same time. This is a very efficient solution for people that enjoy the convenience of Outlook …
How to Spell Check an Email in Outlook 2013
You can spell check an Outlook email by writing the message, clicking the Review tab at the top of the window, then clicking the Spelling …
How to Change the Outgoing Port in Outlook 2013
I recently had to change the outgoing port in Outlook 2013 when I was traveling and discovered that I was receiving email, but I could …
How to Send an HTML Email from Outlook 2013
Learning how to send an HTML email from Outlook 2013 is a great way to distribute highly customized newsletters to people on your mailing list. …
How to Delete a Rule in Outlook 2013
Rules in Microsoft Outlook provide you with a convenient way to filter your emails into the correct folder based on a wide range of criteria. …
How to Check for New Email in Outlook 2013
When you configure a new email account in Microsoft Outlook 2013, it is using the email credentials that you supplied to sign into your email …
How to Display the Ribbon in Outlook 2013
Microsoft Office programs, such as Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel, have been using a navigational ribbon in lieu of a menu since Office 2007. This …
How to Add a Phone Number to a Signature in Outlook 2013
A signature in Outlook is helpful because it allows you to provide recipients with important information that you have selected. Whether this is a mailing …
How to Stop Capitalizing the First Letter in Outlook 2013
A lot of programs with AutoCorrect features try to incorporate fixes to many common mistakes that people make when they type. Occasionally, however, you will …
How to Make a Signature in Outlook 2013
If you send a lot of emails throughout the course of a typical day, then you are probably looking for ways to reduce the amount …
How to Attach a File in Outlook 2013
Email is a simple, effective way to communicate with other people. Most people have an email address, and the message can be read at their …
How to Edit a Contact in Outlook 2013
Contact information can change frequently, so it’s always important to make sure that you are using the correct means to reach someone. Whether they update …
View Only Unread Email Messages in Outlook 2013
Outlook inboxes can easily grow to a point where it can take a long time to manually find a specific email. Fortunately, Outlook has a …
How to Disable Predictive Email Addresses in Outlook 2013
Outlook strives to offer the simplest, most complete way to manage emails. And judging by the popularity of the program, they have created a great …
How to Empty the Auto-Complete List in Outlook 2013
The auto-complete list in Outlook 2013 is the one that displays email address suggestions as you are typing into the To or CC field at …
How to Only Display Emails with Attachments in Outlook 2013
I’ve personally found that a lot of the emails I receive that contain attachments tend to be more important than regular emails. They are also …
How to Get a Print Button in Outlook 2013
Microsoft has moved most of the important file actions to the File tab at the top-left corner of each program window, but this puts these …
How to Turn Off the New Message Alert Sound in Outlook 2013
While it is pretty common for Outlook users to keep their email open throughout the course of the day, not everyone keeps Outlook open as …
How to Pop Out Replies and Forwards by Default in Outlook 2013
One workflow option that you can use in Microsoft Outlook involves going through your inbox and opening a new window for each message that requires …
Mark All Messages as Read in a Folder in Outlook 2013
One good way to make sure that you are caught up on all of your email correspondence is by looking at the number of unread …
Where Did My Folder List Go in Outlook 2013?
The basic navigation structure for Outlook 2013 is broken up into three areas. There is a list of folders at the left side of the …
How to Check the Size of a Folder in Outlook 2013
If you use Outlook 2013 every day and receive a lot of emails, especially emails containing large file attachments, then your Outlook file can get …
How to Send an Entire Folder of Files as an Attachment in Outlook 2013
Emailing files as attachments is often the most efficient method to share a file on your computer with another person. You’ve probably even sent multiple …
How to Add the BCC Field in Outlook 2013
The BCC field has a number of beneficial uses, but perhaps the most common use is being able to send an email to an individual …
How to Stop Grouping Messages by Conversation in Outlook 2011
Email habits and preferences are often built up over years of use and experience with different types of emails. These can be tough to break, …
How to Change the Default Font in Outlook 2013
You might decide to change the default font in Outlook 2013 if you find the default font style or color to be unappealing. The font …
How to Add BCC in Outlook 2011
Blind carbon copy, or BCC, is a helpful way to keep the email addresses of people copied on a message hidden from other recipients of …
How to Change the Send and Receive Frequency in Outlook 2011
The Outlook 2011 program for your Mac OS X computer is very similar to the versions that you might be used to on a Windows …
How to Find the SMTP Port Number in Outlook 2013
To find the SMTP port number in Outlook 2013, head to the ‘File’ tab, click on ‘Account Settings’, double-click your email account, and look under …
How to Delay Delivery of an Email in Outlook 2013
If you use Outlook daily for personal or business reasons, then you have likely come to appreciate the number of features that it offers over …
How Do You Turn Off Read Receipts in Outlook 2013
Read receipts are an interesting feature in mail programs, but it is a feature that is not standardized. Many popular email clients block them, and …
Change How Your Name Displays on Sent Email in Outlook 2013
When you initially set up your email account in Outlook 2013, you were asked to enter your name during the account creation process. The name …
Add a URL Link to Your Outlook 2013 Signature
When you are sending or replying to an email in Outlook 2013, you probably want to give your recipients the most possible options for contacting …
How to Remove the Weather from the Outlook 2013 Calendar
Outlook 2013 resembles Outlook 2010 in a lot of ways, but there are some noticeable changes. You can still perform tasks like creating distribution lists, …
Reading Pane or Preview Panel is Gone in Outlook 2010
When you use Outlook 2010 throughout most of your workday, you start to get used to the way it appears whenever you open the program …
Download Pictures Automatically in Outlook 2010
Dealing with emails can be a risky proposition. There are a lot of ways that a malicious spammer or malware creator can get your email …
Change How Your Name Appears in Outlook 2010
You might discover that you need to change your send name in Outlook 2010 if the name that people see when they receive your email …
Fixing Small Text When Composing Emails in Outlook 2010
We’ve all been in situations where we accidentally hit a key or combination of keys on our keyboard and something drastically changed on our screen. …
How to Forward Your Hotmail Account to Outlook.com
While it is possible to create an Outlook.com email address using your existing Hotmail account and automatically have all of your Hotmail messages get sent …
Link Your New Outlook.com Address with your Old Hotmail
If you have seen and started using the new Outlook.com email service from Microsoft, then hopefully, you are as big a fan of it as …
How to Create a Signature for your Outlook.com Email Address
The rollout of Microsoft’s new Outlook.com email system has generated a lot of buzz among people that are looking for a fast, simple new solution …
Change the Color of Highlighted Search Terms in Outlook 2010
When one of your Outlook 2010 folders gets too large, it can be difficult to locate a specific message that you need. Fortunately, Outlook 2010 …
How to See the File Size of a Folder in Outlook 2010
When you connect your email account to Microsoft Outlook 2010, the program will start downloading email messages from your email server to your computer. This …
How to Find the Word Count of an Outlook 2010 Message
Many publishers and institutions use word count as a requirement for articles, documents, and papers. It is an effective measure of how much information is …
How to Show Total Number of Items in Outlook 2010 Folder
In normal circumstances, Outlook 2010 will display a blue number in parentheses to the right of a folder when there are unread items in that …
How to Display the From Field in Outlook 2010
When you are typing a new message in Microsoft Outlook 2010, typically, the information you are most concerned with is the To field, the Subject …
Google Calendar Sync Outlook 2010
If you use a Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook 2010 with regularity, then you may have been wondering how to configure both of them so …