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].
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New Outlook App Auto-detects Wrong Provider (Outlook instead of Gmail) — How to Force Correct Provider?
I am using the New Outlook App on Windows (version 2024/2025).
My company email (e.g., [email protected]) was previously hosted on Microsoft 365 (Outlook/Exchange Online).
Recently, we migrated our ...
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Create Quick Action in Outlook to send new email to currently selected 'contact'
I am trying to create a Quick Action in Outlook that enables you to send a new email to the current selected contact in your inbox or outbox of whatever box.
I found the option to create a Quick ...
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How can I use Outlook reminders more effectively?
I am extremely dependent on Outlook reminders to meet my professional commitments.
My standard workflow is:
send email
right click the follow-up flag
click add reminder
select date and time
I ...
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Microsoft Office 2016 and OAuth2
The matter is discussed at length on various help websites but the answers are either too old or not fitting what I need.
I have MS Outlook Professionnel Plus 2016 (16.0.5456.1000) MSO, and an ...
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Share Calendar with .ics file
My Outlook doesn't have E-mail calendar option.
The calendar is shared in the form of. ics files. In my personal account, I can directly share my calendar via email, but recently there has been no ...
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How to restore a previous session of Outlook after a crash? I had always been able to reopen items but Outlook just said it didn't save before closing
So, I was always able to reopen previously emails from Outlook, which I did use a lot since Outlook liked crashing. However, one day Outlook just said through a notification it did not save the ...
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Outlook 2016 rules disappear after adding Microsoft 365 account
Running Office 2016 Pro on Windows 10 with latest updates. Outlook connects two accounts using POP3 without removing emails from the server. Both accounts have their data stored in the same .pst file. ...
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How to prevent Outlook from removing closing parentheses when adding other email address with a display name
I have access to an alias for my email (associated to a google group).
When I try to add this email addresse as another email address that I can send emails from in Outlook, this seems to work ...
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In Outlook, can I add reminders by default for outgoing messages?
As a lawyer, I have to go into my Sent items and add reminders to follow up on a significant fraction of emails I send. Obviously, this is inefficient, but worse, I occasionally forget and something ...
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List of all users who have created .pst file for their mailbox in outlook - O365
I would like to know name of all users who have created .pst file for their mailbox in outlook, We have O365 - Exchange online.
I tried using content search in MS Purview to find .pst file for all ...
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How can I create a custom outlook email column that is set to a value found in the body of an email?
How can I setup an email custom column in outlook that is set to the value of a string that occurs in the body of an email?
I've tried setting the formula of the column to:
InStr(1,[Message],"...
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How do I go to an email when the item found is an attached file and not a message?
When I find an attached file when doing a search in Outlook, how do I get to the email containing the file? See the attached screenshot for the search result which prompted this question.
I guess I ...
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Undo/redo in Outlook, message body history
[My Computer: Win.10; 2016 MS Microsoft; Lenovo Laptop;]
In the process of highlighting a letter in an email in MS Outlook to copy it, I accidentally deleted the entire message body, leaving behind ...
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How do I get Outlook to show me emails I have flagged from my personal inbox as well as the shared inbox?
How can I get my “To Do” bar on Outlook to show all emails I have flagged within my own inbox as well as only the emails I have flagged in the shared inbox in the taskbar pane?
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Outlook 2016 rule for BCC received
My outlook at work was recently upgraded. I believe it is 2016 version. How do I create a rule to highlight emails in which I am a bcc recipient?
I see rules for me being in the To field or the CC ...
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