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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

You can no longer change the Archive folder for Outlook.com & Office 365 Exchange accounts. Outlook creates a folder called Archive that is used. POP and IMAP users can select the desired folder to use for Archive.After the latest build of Office 2016 (16.0.6741.2014) is installed, users will see an Archive button on the Home ribbon, next to Delete and also in opened … [Read more...] about Outlook 2016's New Archive Button