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Mail Merge in New Outlook
I finally used Mail Merge in New Outlook. I haven’t been able to find any official documentation since the feature was released in December 2024. For anyone who’s been curious or struggling with how it works, I’ve captured my learnings in a detailed blog post and walkthrough video. 📘 Blog Post: Mail Merge In New Outlook: My First Look » TRACCreations4E 📺 Video: https://youtu.be/x-o72L0tSHs Also, the advanced functionality is on the Roadmap for August and September. Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365 If you find this information helpful, please mark it as the best response so others can benefit too. TRACCreations4e 3/24/2025
Unified inbox in new Outlook for Windows
Having a brand new email app (although it is not "real" appliaction per se) without Unified Inbox / Inbox Grouping option is really, really bad. Outlook for Android have unified inbox for years. Old Mail app in Windows had great possibility for grouping accounts which was even better than simple unified Inbox option available on Android or usually available in other apps. People having just one email use webmail anyway... And people with real need for mail appliaction usually have several emails and want some grouping at least. Hell, even naming of favorite folders is not available ?!? Can we move past 2012?
Outlook end date occurs before start date iritating!!
Hello Community I have just purchased a new laptop with windows 11, and whenever I try to create my new signature and change the font, I receive an error message about end date occurs before start date. I have searched the forums and previous posts which all point towards opening Options, Calendar and chaning the start and end times. Only issue is the options showing in this new version of outlook do not show start and end times. If I click on the 'work hours and location button....guess what....Yep, I just getthe same error message again. So, I cannot change anything and there's nowhere on the net that shows a solution either. Please could somebody advise if they have had this issue and how they resolved? ThanksHow to Create Outlook Rules to Filter External and Internal Emails in Your Organization
Hello Microsoft Community!! In our company I had hard time to segregate external emails from internal ones that came to my organization inbox folder. I have created two folders to as below to segregate Internal and External emails to better organization and easier filtering of my messages I was planning to automate the process of email segregation by creating Outlook rule to move emails that being received from from external domains to specific folder, but it's somehow challenging. First solution I tried to create an Outlook rule that will make an Exception to the (Global Address List) of our organization, which means any emails received and are not belongs to the organization (Global Address List) it will be moved to the specified folder according to the rule. Unfortunately, it didn't work all the time and my email got messed up. --------- After further research I reached the best way to target external emails to filter the message header of the received email, to be specific the header attribute (X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs) I noticed this attribute can have one of two values according to Message Header Analyzer as below: Now if you create Outlook Rule through Outlook for Desktop in this example you can choose the condition ( With Specified Words in message header) then enter either of the specified values below: Targeting External Emails put the following value: X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous Targeting Internal Emails put the following value: X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Internal In my case I targeted the external emails to be moved to the folder I created (Inbox-External) It should look like below, you can also add more rule in my case below I flagged the message: This method is also applicable if you are dealing with Outlook OWA rules as below: At the end am happy to share this experience with the community and happy to engage for discussion if there are better way to do it :)
Shared mailbox cannot be pinned to Favorite
When I want to rightclick on the inbox under Shared with me in New Outlook the pane doesn't show up - so I cannot pin it to Favorites. There is simply nothing, just a very short shadow of the pane. I tried to delete and reinstall the new Outlook app but to no avail. Does anyone have the solution her, I would highly appreciate your help. Kind regards, AstridBlocking spam from Hotmail domain
Hi, My mail is on Hotmail domain. Since may 2024, when combolist was posted on Telegram, i'm receiving tons of spam. Most of the spam that i receive is with Outlook or Hotmail domain. I managed to block those from Outlook (Junk email -> Blocked senders and domains) but i can't do the same with Hotmail domain. Hotmail domain was saved but it's not there when i check back. I also tried Rules (Keywords -> Sender address includes -> Hotmail) but it doesn't work. Is it possible in my case to block incoming mails with sender's address on Hotmail domain?
Need help: 550 5.7.367 Sender Not Authorized for Relay
Anyone here experienced this issue? What happened is: email address removed for privacy reasons and email address removed for privacy reasons are perfectly functional individual domains (i own both). Now, we contacted GD to get it linked (they removed all email account, including tenancy from email address removed for privacy reasons to connect it to email address removed for privacy reasons). Now, after that, everything is working fine except the emails, we cannot send and receive emails from outside the organization. We can only send and receive from internal. I tried doing test emails with multiple gmails to and from and same thing, I got this error: joe is not authorized to relay messages through the server that reported this error. Error Details Error: 550 5.7.367 Remote server returned not permitted to relay -> 554 5.7.1 <email address removed for privacy reasons>: Relay access denied Message rejected by: mx1-usg1.ppe-hosted.com I'm no TechWizard and would appreciate if someone can answer my question.'New Outlook' timezone in 'New Meeting' not checkbox/persistent
I work across timezones frequently, and ensuring the correct timezone is of upmost importance. In the 'Old Outlook' appointment page, the 'timezone' option is a checkbox/persistent, so it's ALWAYS showing the timezone option when setting an meeting/appointment: But in the 'New Outlook', the timezone is a button, and I have to click it every time. Please provide an option to have 'always show timezones' set for calendar appointments!
Default Meeting Template for all users in the organisation.
Hi guys, I have been trying to set default outlook meeting templates for all users in the organisation. I have a made sample meetings template and pasted it in a shared location where every user have access when connected to VPN. I have then created a GPO to move the template file to %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates so that it works even if disconnected from the VPN. What I am struggling is to set the template as default. I have been trying the method below but seems like its not working. Create a GPO for Outlook Settings: In the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), create a new GPO or use an existing one that applies to the target users. Configure Group Policy Preferences for Outlook Settings: In the GPO, navigate to "User Configuration" > "Preferences" > "Windows Settings" > "Registry." Add a New Registry Item: Right-click in the right pane and select "New" > "Registry Item." Configure the Registry Entry to Set the Default Meeting Template: In the "New Registry Properties" window: Action: Select "Update" to create or modify the registry entry. Hive: Select "HKEY_CURRENT_USER." Key Path: Enter the registry path for Outlook's options. It's typically Software\Microsoft\Office\<version>\Outlook\Options, where <version> represents the installed Outlook version (e.g., 16.0 for Outlook 2016). Value Name: Set it to CalendarDefaultMeetingTemplateName. Value Type: Select "REG_EXPAND_SZ" (important for environment variable expansion). Value Data: Enter the path to your custom meeting template file in the user's local profile using environment variables, like %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates\MyMeetingTemplate.oft. Apply the GPO: Link the GPO to the appropriate Organizational Unit (OU) or domain level where your target users are located. Allow some time for the GPO to propagate to all users. Can someone advise what the issue could be?
Ayuda mi padre con el outlook
El tiene cuenta outlook con su número de teléfono principal y hace poco sufrió un robo de su anterior dispositivo pero al intentar iniciar sesión en nuevo dispositivo con código enviado al número celular ya recuperado y que ya tiene en su nuevo dispositivo,no lo envía y me muestra el siguiente mensaje evidenciado en la siguiente foto
Missing DragnDrop of attachments from new Outlook to browsers (SharePoint) – Please bring it back!
The new Outlook no longer supports direct drag & drop of email attachments into browser-based apps like SharePoint or OneDrive. In the classic Outlook, this worked seamlessly, but now we have to go through the desktop as a workaround – an unnecessary extra step that significantly slows down our workflow. Please restore this essential feature! Many businesses and power users rely on drag & drop for efficient work, and this limitation is a major downgrade.
5GB email storage instead of 15GB?
Under the free plan, my email storage should be 15GB, according to the list of plans found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/microsoft-365/outlook/outlook-personal-email-plans?ocid=cmmasasml2s . But I'm getting a message on outlook, which says "you're running low on storage"...it says that I've used up 4.2GB of my 5GB storage. When I go to "manage storage," it shows that all of my storage used is in email attachments and zero is onedrive. If you look at the bottom of the screenshot, you see that it says right there that I have 15GB of email storage under this plan. What gives? What happened to 15GB? How to I rectify this?
Email Storage Not Updating
I deleted some items so that my Microsoft storage would be under 5GB (it's at 3.8 GB according to OneDrive), but I still can't receive emails because Outlook thinks I'm still at 5.6 GB/5 GB even though I'm actually at 3.8 (the bar doesn't reach the end). It's been three days since I deleted the files. What should I do?Logging into outlook.com
Hi Is anyone else stuck in a redirect loop on outlook.com? I go to outlook.com, enter my email address and password. The blue envelope pops up, sits there for a few seconds, and then redirects to https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/outlook/email-and-calendar-software-microsoft-outlook I then click on one of the login links/buttons and do the same and it ends up back in the same place. Sometimes I will get a 403 (which is weird!), and then some other times it will log into my email, so the credentials are ok, and the account is not locked. This has only started to happen in the last couple of weeks. I have tried clearing all website data, loading incognito and the same thing happens in both cases. Anyone else experiencing this? TonyNew Outlook, can I access my contacts from more than one email account?
Is there any way I can access my extensive list of contacts from more than one email address/account? Currently they are all listed under my default email address account, but I sometimes need to send to people from those contacts using a different email account. Grateful for any help. Thank you.Automatic End of Line Hyphenation is Bad
I wanted to encourage the developers of Outlook to turn off automatic end of line hyphenation in Outlook. After a recent update, Outlook on my laptop is now automatically hyphenating words at the ends of lines -- even when the email text is intended to be left aligned and consequently rag right. The automatic hyphenation results in the body text of incoming emails often looking almost justified, but not quite. You should let the composers of emails choose whether they want their text left-aligned/rag-right or justified. There's no reason to override the left alignment and make everything badly justified."New" Outlook is not great
I was forced to switch to the new version of Outlook. I have to have it for my job so I have no choice. So many things wrong when compared to the classic version. You would think that MS would migrate all the settings, views, etc. to the new version. But they didn't. -Event/reminder snooze options - now limited to two hours? Now I get reminders every two hours for something I need to snooze for days or weeks like I was able to before. -Contact views - can't view my contacts in the classic table format where I can filter/sort by company name or last name, etc. -Spell check now cleared by left mouse click instead of the usual right click like all other apps have. -No longer can select multiple email attachments like the classic version -Email folders cannot be sorted anymore Again...love Outlook but this new version is not a winner. MS...please bring back all the classic options!
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