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An Outlook 2013 user wanted to change the Search provider that is used when you right click on text in Outlook: In Outlook 2013, I can right click on a word and a menu pops up and I am able to "Search with Bing". I know Bing belongs to Microsoft but I don't like using it. Is there any way I can change this search engine to Google instead?? You sure can, all it takes is … [Read more...] about Tip 1101: Change the Search Provider in Office 2013

Every time I double click on an email address it automatically opens up an Microsoft Mail window asking me to sign up... I didn't want to. Is there a setting I can change to make Outlook the default for email? Of course you can set Outlook to be the default for all email usage.In Windows 10, you'll need to set the default email client in Settings. Open Settings from the … [Read more...] about Set Outlook as default email client

As people upgrade to smartphones and configure email on the phone, they discover POP3 accounts aren't necessarily the best when you need access the account from multiple devices. They switch to IMAP but discover it behaves differently than the POP3 account did in Outlook 2007 and older.This user is using Outlook 2007 but IMAP works the same way in older versions as well. I … [Read more...] about Tip 1100: Outlook and IMAP accounts

The Upgrade to Color Categories feature doesn't work as expected in Outlook 2013. When you open an existing .pst or import categorized items into Outlook 2013 and run upgrade to color categories, the categories are not added to the Master category list.You have two options to add the categories to the master list:If you have a list of the category names, you can use a … [Read more...] about Tip 1099: Outlook 2013 Upgrade to Color Categories doesn't work

When you needed to find messages and other Outlook items associated with a contact in older versions of Outlook, you could use the Activities page on the contact see everything linked to that contact. However, Activities was removed from Outlook 2013. While the People Pane replaces some of the functionality of Activities, it is limited to the last 200 items (but that can be … [Read more...] about Tip 1098: Searching for messages from a contact