Easy Mail Merge allows you to generate email tracking reports (open rates) for your Outlook mail merge campaigns using the Google Analytics web platform. In this article we will detail how to enable email tracking for Easy Mail Merge campaigns in Outlook, both as real-time email open reports and as hourly / daily / monthly email tracking stats.
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For various reasons, it may happen that Outlook hangs on loading your profile and it stops responding (freezing). In this article we will detail some of the most common solutions for this issue.
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With the newer Outlook versions you can use Outlook rules to create Outlook auto reply email messages without an Exchange server, but the built-in auto reply options are pretty limited if you want to tailor auto replies to various scenarios. In this article we will detail the auto reply features of Auto Reply Manager for Outlook.
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Outlook 2013 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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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.
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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 earlier Outlook versions, too.
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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 and automatically 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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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 Outlook 2013 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 2013 to always pop out a new email window, when you reply or forward it.
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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.
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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.
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This articles describes solutions to enable add-ins that are marked as inactive in Outlook but they are NOT marked as disabled. Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 actually have 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.
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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 2013.
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If your Outlook 2013 keeps crashing, read this article to find out the most frequent causes for Outlook 2013 crashes and their solutions.
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We use to tell our customers to always update Outlook with its latest updates, but – with Office / Outlook 2013 – 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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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 2013), Outlook Express, Windows Live Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird (all versions), Eudora.
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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.
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Starting with version 5, Bells & Whistles for Outlook includes a comprehensive email statistics software engine that allows you to create reports (email metrics) about your Outlook email activity. On this article we will detail these email statistics features.
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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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Easy Mail Merge supports multiple mailing list source formats, including CSV files. Practically, you can import an unlimited number of mail merge columns & fields, from CSV files to your mail merge campaigns. Once your CSV content is imported, you can use it to customize (personalize) your mass emails.

However, based on your support requests, some of you have problems properly importing data from CSV files. This article tries to shed some light on formatting & importing CSV files to Easy Mail Merge.
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This article details the unique Outlook Send Options available for your mail merge campaigns created with Easy Mail Merge. These send options work with any Outlook version, including Outlook 2013.
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This article explains how to add hyperlinks to images inserted in Outlook 2013 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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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.
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Are you considering to attach or to embed a video in an email message? This article analyzes video emails and shows how to email video in Outlook.
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This tutorial explains how to extract email addresses from emails stored in Microsoft Office Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird, using Email Address Collector. Also see the video tutorial: extract email addresses from emails.
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This video tutorial details how to setup Auto Reply Manager to send Out of Office automatic replies from Outlook.

This tutorial describes three different ways to remove Outlook add-ins from your Outlook installation.
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Find out what is the maximum email size limit for emails & file attachments sent to popular email account providers, such as Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo and others.
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This article describes how to extract email addresses from Outlook emails, Contacts or distribution lists and how to export them to various formats using Email Address Collector.
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Before sending your email newsletter, you obviously have to create a mailing list. This article will show you a straight forward solution to create mailing lists using tools that you already have at your disposal.
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How about a nice looking HTML email template that renders just fine in Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail and all other major email client applications? Sounds pretty easy, but all email designers know how hard can it be to achieve a slick design yet still get the email to display fine across various email clients. It can be an impossible mission, if you aren’t experienced enough on designing HTML emails. But, here is a solution even for those that aren’t so familiar with the HTML email tricks.
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