As its name suggests, Email Address Collector (EAC for short) helps you filter, scan and collect email addresses from various sources, then save the email addresses to your preferred format. This article details how to use the program under different scenarios. Read more →
For obvious reasons, most business emails include a signature image with a hyperlink on it. In this article, we will explain how to create an Outlook signature image with hyperlink that gets automatically inserted in your outgoing emails. We will use Outlook 2013 to illustrate this tutorial, but similar steps to add hyperlinks on email signatures apply to newer Outlook versions, too. Read more →
Bounces (or bounce backs) are those sent emails that couldn’t be delivered to the intended email addresses. If you send mass emails on regular basis, you might already noticed that a certain percentage of your emails bounce back as permanent delivery failures (hard bounces) and temporary delivery failures (soft bounces).
To avoid unnecessary sent emails and to keep your mailing list clean, you should always remove bounces from your mailing list, especially those addresses that bounced with a permanent delivery failure message. In this article we’ll discuss two solutions to automatically remove bounces. Read more →
Earlier Outlook versions (up to Outlook 2000) and Outlook Express used to let you automatically put people you reply to in your Contacts list or in your Windows Address Book. Starting with Outlook 2003, this feature was somehow replaced with the Outlook auto-complete option that adds replied addresses to a Suggested Contacts list.
However, Microsoft removed the Suggested Contacts feature from Outlook 2013, leaving you with no built-in option to automatically put people you reply to in your Contacts list.
Having emails stuck in Outbox is a pretty common issue in Outlook: you’ve wrote an email, clicked to send it, but it stays in the Outbox folder and Outlook is not sending the email, no matter what you do. This article details possible causes & solutions and it applies to all Outlook versions, including Outlook 2019. Read more →
Unless you are planning to send a group email in Outlook to a really small email addresses group, you need a way to automate this process in order to add all email addresses to the group email and – even better – to generate separate emails for each address of the email group. This article details how to achieve it. Read more →
Many people want to track and see if an email has been read and – since the demand exists – the Internet is full with lots of email tracking solutions that promise to tell you if your email has been opened & read. In this article we will detail various tracking solutions, their advantages and drawbacks. Read more →
Outlook 2013 introduced a new in-line compose method for email replies and forwarded messages, designed to make it easier for you to quickly write & send an email. However, the new Outlook in-line method may prove to be a frustration source, especially if you are used to browse other emails while you are composing a reply. This short tutorial explains how to configure Outlook to always pop out a new email window, when you reply or forward it. Read more →
Did you click on the above picture to enlarge it? All these email automation actions can be performed in Outlook using the Bells & Whistles add-in. And even more! Read more →
I don’t ever remember going back to read an old unread email in Outlook, months later. If the email interested me, I read it when I received it, not after 2 months. On the other hand, we all have such emails in our mailboxes: they aren’t spam, they aren’t necessarily marketing emails but also they aren’t important enough for us to read them. In this article we will detail how to automatically mark old unread emails as read, in Outlook. Read more →
It is always a good idea to auto reply to people that made a payment to you, no matter if it’s a purchase or a donation. It certifies that the payment reached the intended person and it gives you an opportunity to further detail your offer or activity.
However, setting up an auto reply to PayPal payments from Outlook is not really achievable through Outlook internal rules. In this article we will explain why you can’t configure Outlook to auto reply to PayPal payments and how to achieve this functionality using Auto Reply Manager for Outlook. Read more →
Unfortunately, dealing with Outlook duplicate emails is a common frustration. For various reasons, we all end up having to deal with lots of duplicated emails, but removing them can be a very time consuming task, if done manually.
In this article we will detail how to automatically remove Outlook duplicate emails using Weight Diet, an Outlook optimization add-in designed to remove duplicate and obsolete items from Outlook mailboxes. Read more →
Like all the other Outlook versions, Outlook 2013 – 2019 lets you define a rule to automatically add a CC address to emails, but it doesn’t offer a similar option to always BCC someone. This article describes how to always BCC in Outlook using the Bells & Whistles Outlook add-in. Read more →
ScanPST (scanpst.exe) is the Outlook Inbox Repair Tool designed to verify Outlook PST files for integrity errors. Earlier Outlook versions let you access ScanPST easily through the Outlook / Office Diagnostics feature, but Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 make it harder for you to manually run the Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe). This article shows the location of scanpst.exe on Outlook 2010 & 2013. Read more →
One important feature of Bells & Whistles is its Outlook Alerts section: this article details the Outlook Alerts options available with the Bells & Whistles add-in for Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019. Read more →
This article shows how to use the free Outlook add-ins manager provided as part of the Bells & Whistles Outlook add-in installation.
Basically, Bells & Whistles for Outlook is packed with a free Outlook add-ins tool that lets you enable or disable all your Outlook add-ins, with a single click. The goal of this utility is to easily let you manage all your installed add-ins (enabled or disabled), without having to go through the more complicated add-ins management internal procedure of Outlook. The add-ins utility works with all Windows versions of Outlook, including Outlook 2013 x32 and x64. Read more →
Email Address Collector is a Windows email address extractor designed to scan and extract email addresses from almost any data source, including email folders, Office documents or PDF files. This tutorial details the steps required to extract email addresses from PDF files. Read more →
As you probably know, when you reply or forward an email, Outlook automatically sets your “From” address as the one being used in the initial replied/forwarded Outlook email, no matter which is your default Outlook email account. It can be a frustrating process to always manually change the account to send from… On this article we will detail how to always send emails from one account in Outlook (default account). Read more →
This articles describes solutions to enable add-ins that are marked as inactive in Outlook but they are NOT marked as disabled. Outlook actually has 3 status labels for add-ins: enabled, disabled and inactive. Most people confuse an inactive add-in with a disabled add-in, but they are not really the same thing. Read more →
This tutorial details how to setup auto reply Outlook emails using the Auto Reply Manager Outlook add-in. As its name suggests, this Outlook add-in is especially designed to help you auto reply from Outlook, with just a few clicks. The add-in works with all Outlook versions starting from Outlook 2003 and including Outlook 2019. Read more →
We use to tell our customers to always update Outlook with its latest updates, but – with Office / Outlook 2013, 2016 and 2019 – updating Outlook it’s not as easy as it should be. This tutorial describes how to update Outlook 2013, depending on its installation method. Read more →
In this tutorial I will explain how to extract email addresses and include or exclude only those emails that contain a certain subject line. The tutorial applies to Email Address Collector and it works for emails stored in email folders of the following Windows email client products: Microsoft Outlook 2000 or newer (including Outlook 2019), Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird (all versions), Eudora eMail. Read more →
Easy Mail Merge is an Outlook add-in designed to compose and send mass customized emails from Outlook. This articles answers the most frequent mail merge errors reported by Easy Mail Merge users. These issues are grouped in two categories: errors reported when composing & generating the mail merge emails and issues encountered while sending the mail merge emails from Outlook. Read more →
This article explains how to prevent / disable the Outlook security warning window on all modern Outlook versions, including Outlook 2019. The Outlook security warning window pops up whenever a non-trusted program (Outlook add-in, Macro script, etc) is trying to access Outlook and send email on your behalf. The goal of this Outlook security warning is to notify you about this action and prevent unauthorized Outlook access. However, if you actually want to use Outlook is a programmatic way, this Outlook security warning can become annoying. Read more →
If you are using Bells & Whistles for Outlook or any other Outlook add-in that is supposed to insert various text snippets in your Outlook emails, you should want to format your texts using the same font color as the default font color of Outlook, so your entire email content looks uniform. Read more →
Recurring emails are email messages that are supposed to be automatically sent, periodically, based on user defined settings. Although Outlook does not offer an easy way to send recurring emails, this article describes how to schedule recurring emails in Outlook, with only a couple of clicks. Read more →
If you use your Outlook.com email account in a regular email client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, you may have received the error “Exceeded the login limit for a 15 minute period” (code 0x800CCC90). This articles details the error and its solution. Read more →