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Questions tagged [microsoft-outlook-2016]

Use this tag for questions specifically about the 2016 version of the Microsoft Outlook personal information manager; otherwise use [microsoft-outlook].

Outlook is Microsoft's personal information manager; Outlook 2016 is part of Microsoft Office 2016 (internally known as Office 16).

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Notification of subfolders inside inbox in outlook 2016

I created a subfolder inside inbox folder and created a rule to move some of the emails to this folder. I am not getting any notification when mails are arriving to this subfolder. I haven't been able to find a way to setup alert on this subfolder.…
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Replying in sent: send to them, not to me

I come from Thunderbird/Evolution and I'm used to their behaviour when I send an email, and then want to add to what I said, or I've thought of something, I can go to my sent folder and just hit reply. This keeps my sent message quoted in the new…
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How can I show the CC recipients separately to the To recipients in Outlook 2016?

In both the reading pane and message windows on Outlook 2016, the "To" and "Cc" recipients are collapsed into a single list. Whilst you can use the drop down arrow to show whether an email I've received was directly to me or I'm just a carbon copy…
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Oultook 2016 - Stop applying categories across shared mailboxes

I am running the Outlook 2016 application (Professional Plus) on a Windows 10 machine. I have a set of categories that I use for my primary mailbox. I also have added several additional mailboxes that I share with others. In those mailboxes, we use…
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Option to move Automatic Response emails except if the body contains text

I see great responses on here about how to set up rules to move Automatic Responses to another folder. I have one implemented, but ran into to an issue today where some one had included a request in the response that I didn't see and it created a…
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Outlook 2016 - Selecting calendar when creating an appointment

Like many of us, I have multiple mailboxes in my Outlook and thus multiple calendars. When I create a new appointment, from the Appointment dialog, how can I assign to which of my calendars the event is going to be saved? And of course without…
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How do I get Outlook's auto discover work on my domains?

As just a guy with my own (family) domain I'm looking for guides or any information on hosting the autodiscover.xml file on my own domain, without an exchange server, and point it to outlook.com (and possibly to other mail providers based on user…
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Outlook - Showing ONLY threaded messages

I'm trying to pull email data from outlook (2016) for a report. The data I need is threaded emails only (conversations). I need the original message, the reply message and any other correspondence in line with the thread. I don't need messages that…
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How can Outlook automatically unsubscribe me from emails?

I fancy unsubscribing from non-personalized emails (e.g. newsletters from tourism websites). I'm not asking about blocking, or unsubscribing from everything from, the same sender (e.g. replies from this tourism websites' staff to my emails). I can't…
user269574
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Assign category to email in Outlook 2016 before sending it

In Outlook 2016, is there a way to add a category to a message before sending it? At the moment I send the email, then go into Sent Items and add the category there, but it would be much quicker to be able to add it while composing the email.
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How do I prevent reminder popups for meetings I'm not attending?

When someone sends me an invitation for an event that happened in the past, Outlook will instantly pop up a reminder on my desktop, even though I haven't even opened the mail about the event yet. How can I prevent Outlook from opening these…
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Oulook 2016 is displaying newsletter wrongly

I updated Office to 2016 and suddenly I noticed that most newsletters are displayed wrong: This is how is displayed: This is how it should be displayed: I disabled all Outlook add-ons with no results. I'm on Windows 10 and having an Office 365…
Ionut Staicu
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Resize an image in an email using typed percentages instead of drag bars in Outlook?

I frequently take large images and jam them into emails, but when I do, they always paste gigantic. Is there a text-based / keyboard-shortcut / non-click and drag way to do this in Outlook? I do not wish to change the actual resolution of the…
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Outlook rule rejected, why?

When I make a rule in my Outlook 2016 inbox, it fails with this error message "The operation failed because of a registry or installation problem." What could be causing this and how can I resolve it?
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Outlook: make a rule that acts when number of (unread) mails in a folder exceeds a treshold

We're looking to perform a series of action every time the number of (unread) mails in a folder exceeds a certain limit. Example: When the number of mails in a folder > 10000, mail the assistant to clean it up. When the number of unread mails in a…
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