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I receive a lot of complaints about the change in the unread message preview option introduced in Outlook 2013. In Outlook 2010 and older, you could show a 3 line preview of Unread messages and no preview for read messages. In Outlook 2013, this was changed to an option of 1, 2 or 3 lines but applies to all messages, read or unread and not everyone likes this change. I spent … [Read more...] about Show AutoPreview for Unread Messages

When I open any Office 2013 application, there is a yellow banner under the ribbon that literally shouts "GET THE NEW OFFICE It's one of the perks of having Office 365." There is an X at the right-hand end of the banner that allows you to dismiss the banner. Unfortunately, the banner reappears every time I switch to a different email account in Outlook. I have not found a way … [Read more...] about Remove Office 2013 Upgrade Banner

A user complained that he couldn't copy and paste appointments on his calendar. This should be a basic Outlook feature, but NO, Outlook can't do something so simple as copy and paste appointments on a calendar. Really? How stupid! Yes, the Copy command is missing from the right-click context menu, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work.... try using the old standby Ctrl+C … [Read more...] about Copy and Paste Appointments

After upgrading to office 2016, I now have a list of "Recent Items" under the attachment button. I want to turn it off because I never attach recent items and always need to browse to a specific location for a file. Outlook doesn't have an option to change the number of recent files but you can set a value in the registry. Setting it to 0 will remove all recent items from … [Read more...] about Change How Many Attachments are Listed in Attach File

Although I don't recommend pulling Office 365 business mail into a personal Gmail account, I know some users do this. For many, it just works, but others receive errors when they try to set Gmail up to use the Office 365 or Outlook.com SMTP server. I have an Office365 Enterprise email account with a handful of users, one of whom has an aversion to anything Microsoft and … [Read more...] about Pulling Office 365 Accounts into Gmail