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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Have you ever wondered what is the average number of emails received in Outlook per day, per week or per month? This article details how to count the number of emails in Outlook by range, by keyword filters, Outlook email categories or mail folders.
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Updated: March 27, 2020

Outlook allows you to define and add signatures using the built-in Signatures tool. To add a signature in Outlook, simply open the Outlook Options window, then go to the Mail -> Signatures section.
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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: April 3, 2020

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.
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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 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 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 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: April 2, 2020

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 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 31, 2020

To help you solve your Outlook problems faster, we decided to put together the 5 most commonly received Outlook Send & Receive error messages and their solutions.
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Updated: April 6, 2020

Sometimes, emails can get stuck in your Inbox, Outlook or Sent Items folder and you are unable to move or delete them, while Outlook reports an “unknown error”. This article describes various solutions to this problem.
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