This article describes how to fix Outlook when it’s working offline: switching from offline to online mode, missing “Work Online” button and the potential reasons why Outlook keeps getting offline.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

When you’re trying to send a file attachment in Outlook, you have two deal with two file attachment limits: the max limit enforced by your recipient’s mail server and the max attachment limit enforced by Outlook.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

Outlook lets you organize your Contacts into Contact Groups. In fact, a “Contact Group” is the new name for the old “Distribution List”, in the same way as “Contacts” is now replaced with “People”. But managing Contact Groups is a different story…
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Some of us simply need to always attach files in outgoing Outlook emails, especially if we deal with business emails. For example, one may need to automatically attach a business card or a brochure to all business emails. In this article we will explain how to always attach files to Outlook emails using Bells & Whistles for Outlook.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.

Luckily, there is a solution.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

If Outlook keeps crashing, read this article to find out the most frequent causes for Outlook crashes and their solutions.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

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.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Up to Outlook 2010, you used to be able to choose to “Download headers only” for all your Outlook accounts. However, this changed with Outlook 2013 – this blog article describes what has changed.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

This article explains how to add hyperlinks to images inserted in Outlook 2013 – 2019 emails. It may sound trivial, but unless you are accustomed with Outlook, adding a hyperlink to an image in Outlook is not as obvious as it should be.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

With the release of Easy Mail Merge v3, we offer you even more control on your Outlook newsletter campaigns, with unmatched mass email send options.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

When you install Outlook 2010 / 2013 or newer, it automatically disables images in emails that you are receiving. Images are disabled for security reasons, as they are widely used by spammers to validate email addresses by loading a special image inside the email content: if that image file gets downloaded from the spammer’s server, then obviously the related email address (your address) is valid & in-use by someone.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

If you send Outlook emails with images – and especially if you send marketing emails with images – you should want to be able to add alternative (ALT) text for your images. Most modern email clients don’t show images by default, so by adding ALT text you can describe your image even if the image itself is not displayed. For example, if your image should show a “Buy now” graphic, you can add a “Buy now” ALT text and make your email readers understand how to buy even if images are not displayed.

This article shows how to add ALT text to images in Outlook 2013 – 2019.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Outlook 2013 introduced the ability to send an email from an email address that is not defined as an Outlook account. This article describes how to send an email from other email address in Outlook 2013 – 2019.
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Updated: April 2, 2020

There can be many occasions when you would want to send emails with a delay. For example, what if you need the email to be delivered on a different time zone, at 3AM your time? Would you stay awake until 3AM just to send that email? This article explains how to send email with delay in Outlook 2013 to 2019.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

For various reasons, some people simply prefer to always send plain text Outlook emails. This article describes how to format and send plain text emails in Outlook using the Outlook options or using a 3rd party Outlook add-in.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

This blog article describes how to insert autotext in Outlook (Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019), using two auto-text methods: the internal Outlook AutoText feature and the auto-text options of the Bells & Whistles add-in for Outlook.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

This article describes how to use the Outlook internal e-mail merge mechanism in order to create and send mass personalized emails. Although mail merge in Outlook 2013 is pretty limited, it still can be a viable solution for some of us.
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Updated: March 27, 2020

For those of us that are using Windows and Microsoft Office for years, the launch of Office 2013 created some pretty big confusions. Obviously, I don’t speak for Microsoft, but I’d like to try and clarify the naming conventions that Microsoft is currently using, in regards to Office, Outlook & Outlook Express.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Related article: how to remove Outlook add-ins.

Starting with Outlook (Professional) 2013, Microsoft introduced a new, easier way to troubleshoot installed add-ins. This article details the new “Slow and Disabled Add-ins” Outlook function and how you should read its suggestions.
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Printing only a text part from an email is a pretty common action. Sometimes, you only need some text bits and you aren’t going to print a potentially long email conversation only to obtain the desired text part on paper. But, as you probably discovered, the latest versions of Outlook simply don’t offer you the ability to print only selected text. You can choose to print the entire message (including the email headers) or you can choose to print emails as an Inbox table – but not only selected text.
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Updated: March 31, 2020

Outlook.com is designed by Microsoft as an alternative to Google Gmail. And – just like Gmail – you can configure your favorite email client to send & receive emails through your outlook.com email account. To do so, you need to know the Outlook.com mail server settings.
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Updated: March 26, 2020

First of all, it’s important to clarify that Microsoft currently markets two (very) different Office versions: Office Professional and Office 365.

Office Professional is actually the “old” desktop Office version (the one that everyone is familiar with, for many years), while Office 365 is the web version (or cloud version) of Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office 365 (initially called Office Online or Office Live) was actually around for some years too, but – with the release of Windows RT for Surface & other mobile platforms – it will become more and more popular. Some Office 365 subscriptions also include the desktop Office application versions, such as Outlook or Word – to avoid further confusions, in this article we refer to Office 365 as the web based version.
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