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  • Your top 10 favorite Outlook posts of 2012

    Email is all about communicating with people--whether you're sharing a photo, or scheduling a meeting or phone call. Some of last year's most popular posts about the new Outlook show you how it's been designed to put people first. When too many people communicate with you about too many things, your...
  • Really want to do some winter cleaning? Switch to Outlook.com for the best email experience across all your devices

    We were very surprised to see Gmail announce last week that they'll soon end support for Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) , unless of course you're willing to pay Google for your email. It means that many people currently using Gmail for free are facing a situation where they might have to degrade their mobile...
  • Outlook 2010 Available Today!

    Over the past few months, we have shared our excitement about the new features of Outlook 2010, such as Quick Steps, Conversations, and the Contact Card. Our team is proud to announce that Outlook and the rest of Office 2010 are available in retail stores and online today. Thank you to the millions of...
  • Fix for issue with message sizes in Outlook 2010 Beta

    Recently, we posted information on the Outlook blog about a bug in the Microsoft Office 2010 Beta that increases the message size of some e-mails messages sent from the Microsoft Outlook 2010 Beta. The Office team has been hard at work building a fix for this issue, which is available immediately. Download...
  • Outlook on Facebook

    Microsoft Outlook now has its very own fan page on Facebook, which means you now have an easy way to get free tips about your favorite program, share ideas about the ways you use Outlook, and get answers to Outlook-related questions that you’ve always wanted to ask. The nice thing about joining the Outlook...
  • Mail Merge: How to send a personalized e-mail to many people at once

    First of all, this post is dedicated to my aunt Gayla who runs a small business and has a lot of trouble with this feature. This post is not dedicated to those who might use this feature for spamming. :) Mail merge is a feature of Outlook and Word that allows you to send a set of contacts a personalized...
  • Announcing Office Labs

    Microsoft is happy to announce the introduction of Office Labs , a team dedicated to building prototypes and testing concepts mostly related to Office applications, including Outlook. For more on what Office Labs is all about, check out their blog or Jeff Smith's and Joe Friend’s posts on Office...
  • Changing your theme

    Recently, we received the follow question and I thought I would share the answer with everyone: Is there a way to change the baby blue color to something more customized or at least revert back to the same color scheme of Outlook 2003? To change your Office theme, click “Tools” in the toolbar...
  • A Safety Net for the Send Button

    Sometimes the Send button can backfire. Have you ever sent a mail to the wrong person by mistake? Have you ever sent an email and then realized a second too late that you forgot an important point, or could have worded things more carefully, or even misspelled something obvious, like your own name? Luckily...
  • Q&A 1: Searching Offline Archives

    Since we began the Outlook Team blog last June, we’ve been receiving lots of questions and suggestions, so thank you! Below are a few answers to questions that we hear with some frequency. If your question is not answered here, don’t worry, as we’ll be posting more answers in the near...
  • Removing items from the To-Do Bar

    I don’t think there is much that is more satisfying than crossing things off a to-do list. The To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 can help you automatically create a to-do list and provide you with a few options for getting that satisfied feeling after you’ve wrapped up a task or followed up on an e-mail. If...
  • Announcing the 2007 Microsoft Office Security Guide

    Security guidelines for our enterprise customers have been released and are now available for download. A lot of great work went into the 2007 Office Security Guide, which lists and explains Group Policy your administrator can deploy to tailor Outlook (and other Office applications) to your organization...