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Many users are excited when they see the field called Custom Priority in the Field chooser dialog, thinking that Outlook finally lets them customize the priority. No such luck. That field is used with SharePoint tasks folders that are linked to Outlook. It won't work on other task folders in Outlook.If you are looking for custom priorities, you're out of luck. Outlook … [Read more...] about Tip 867: Custom Priority field in Microsoft Outlook Tasks

When you assign categories to Contacts you can send an email message to everyone in the category.To do this in Microsoft Outlook 2010 or Outlook 2013, begin by grouping by category then select the category and click the Email button on the Home ribbon's Communicate section. This will open a new email message addressed to the members of the category.While in the Contacts … [Read more...] about Tip 864: Send email to a Contact category

If you have a Gmail account and are getting duplicates in the Sent folder, this is because Outlook saves a sent message in the Sent message folder and some IMAP mail providers do the same, creating two sent message every time you send a message. To stop the duplicates, you need to change the sent message settings in Outlook’s More Settings dialog or change the settings on your … [Read more...] about Tip 863: Duplicate Sent Messages in Outlook 2010