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Outlook for Mac quote button
Hi all, It has been a few months since I migrated to MacOS from Linux. During my days in Linux, I use Outlook web version and now I have been using Outlook app for Mac. One feature that I missed is quote button, which I use quite a lot! It seems that the Outlook app in Mac doesn't have quote button, for some reason. What I usually do is copy pasting and then put an indentation and italic, which is OK, but not nearly as polished. It would be really great to have this feature added in. In the meantime, is there any alternative to 'save' a style for quote that is similar to the web version? Thanks!Outlook 365 - search broken for one user
Hi all, Exchange 2019 hybrid Outlook 365 Most users are migrated. We have one user who has been migrated and their search is broken in a strange way. They can only search for some words when using Current Folder or Current Mailbox. Some words return results and some don't, even though all words searched for are definitely in the subject or body of emails. However in the search options if they select All Outlook Items it will find any keyword. Within Outlook, the Indexing Status shows as complete. It was time to repace their PC and I hoped that would resolve it but it hasn't. That rules out being a computer issue. It was a newly set up PC. Does anyone know what the issue might be? thanks j
Outlook e-mail widget on Android stopped working
On my Android device the outlook e-mail widget stopped working about 3 days ago. The phone is Huawei P30pro. The outlook calendar widget still works, (but see below) It looks like this happened after the latest update to 4.2537.1 on 25 Sept 2025. The same issue cropped up 2 days later on a second android phone in the family when it updated itself to the newest version. Also, quite recently, but earlier than the latest update on 25 sept, any calender entry made on the outlook app in android, cannot be edited or deleted. However, when using outlook on a PC the calendar entry can be edited and deleted. Anybody observing the same problem?
Run rule now is grayed out
My rules in Outlook are grayed out again. The part of manual execution. And this status has been remained for at least 3 days. I encountered this circumstance before like few months ago and here we go again. My account is personal account (Outlook.com). When I use Microsoft Outlook for Mac, Version 16.101 (25091314), to see my rules and wanna execute one of the rules, it's greyed out, a.k.a, cannot be executed. When I open a browser, say Edge, (Version 140.0.3485.66 (Official build) (arm64)), the same status as well. My findings so far: All of rules that will categorize email cannot be executed manually now. Rules that will delete emails can be executed manually. It's manual execution that won't work. Coming emails will still be categorized by the rules automatically. Any clue how to solve this? Or somewhere is wrong internally in the system so far?
outlook 365 search bar loses focus (oct 2024, version 2410)
I'm using Windows 11 and Outlook 365 version 2410, build 18129.20054; Oct 19, 2024. I click on the search bar inside Outlook (not the "new" version!) it flashes the current Mailbox or All Outlook items left of the box and the mouse loses focus. Eventually, after seeing other posts on the web, I was able to click quickly on the up/down arrow on the right side of the bar to freeze the dialog, and could see lots of the standard choices (search in, attachments, from, to, etc...). but every time I entered a keystroke anywhere into the bar or the dialog, it lost focus right afterwards and went to some unknown location. so, if I hit backspace, it would think I was deleting something, like an attachment or actual email, -- wherever the focus went to. I found that I could do a cut/paste of a word into the search bar at that point, and it accepted it and upon hitting carriage return, it would then do the search (assuming that I was searching in 'All Outlook Items'. This problem just started today, and I believe that yesterday or today there was some kind of system update, at least to Microsoft's Edge. Coincidence? I think not. Anyone else having this problem? It seems that over the years search bar instability has been a repeated occurrence, but this is the first time I've had enough issues to complain.
Outlook calendar does not sync
Hello, We are using a shared Outlook calendar that belongs to one person, and the others can access it and create, move, or delete appointments there. One colleague somehow (I have no idea how) deleted all the appointments in the calendar, except for 3–4 new ones that she entered at that time. These appointments appeared in her "Deleted Items," and she has now restored them all. She can now see all the appointments again online in the shared calendar (sometimes even duplicated), but the others still cannot see the deleted appointments. When she tries to change or re-save an appointment, however, she gets an error message. What can I do? There were many appointments scheduled for next year, and I don’t want to recreate everything from scratch. Thanks, Best regards, Martin
Using IMAP login on Outlook mobile app not working
I have a website and email account hosted with Siteground. I used the IMAP and SMTP settings to login to Outlook. This is successful on the Windows desktop app but is not working on the iOS iPhone Outlook app. I am 100% using all the correct settings as they were confirmed by both Siteground and Microsoft chat support although they couldn't fix the situation. I tried uninstalling the Outlook app which also didn't work. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
Removing duplicate emails -- What is a dupe?
I ran the "cleanup" folder tool and found purported dupes removed from the target folder and moved to "Deleted" but they were not what I would call dupes. Rather, the tool removed emails that were also embedded in another email chain -- not what I would call a dupe at all. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a tool that will remove dupes that are really two copies of the same email? Ken CDifficulty in activation my Outlook classic (2013)
Hi, Earlier this year I bought Office 2024 family . That purchase appears in my account details. I installed Outlook classic on my old PC with the bought licence. Everything was perfect. I have just switched from my really old PC (running Win 10) to a new PC. On my new PC, I managed to install Outlook classic. Inside my new Outlook classic I use my usual account pie****_****@videotron.ca. Everything works well but it warns me that it cannot activate Office with my Microsoft pna*****@outlook.com account and suggests I use another account. When I click on 'Try Another Account', it does nothing but re-displays the same error message. It loops indefinitely I looked up the accounts and actually it showed my two addresses, the @outlook.com and the @videotron.ca. I deleted the @outlook.com address using Account parameters, thinking this may help as there would be no ambiguity. It also tells me I have to correct this by 9/20..... The new PC runs Win 11 Family, Version 23h2 Installed software: Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft Outlook 2016 fr-ca Microsoft Office Family fr-fr I am new to this and find it quite confusing THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP ! Pierre PS: If my message is unclear or if you need more info, just let me know.How to view a single message plain text
What is the simplest way to view the plain text of a single message without changing outlook settings? Email messages can contain both html and plain text simultaneously but only one type can be viewed at a time and their content can contain completely different and contradictory messages according to what the sender inserted for each. I want to continue to view all messages as html by default but sometimes I'd like to see the plain text message. Ideally, I'd hope to find a button to "switch to plain text view" or "switch to html view". The shortest way I've found to accomplish something similar is to either forward or reply to the message and "Format Text > Plain Text" to show the alternate content as a workaround. Is there a more convenient way?Outlook account not receiving some mails
I have an IMAP account that I forward to my Outlook mail account. Some mails never arrive in my Outlook account. Among them are some important mails. AMong them are mails that are from senders that are in my "safe sender list". I have no rules set, they don´t land in the spam folder or any other folder. They just never arrive in my Outlook account. When I forward the mails from my IMAP to my Google account, I get all the mails. So its not a problem of my IMAP account not forwarding some mails. In simpler words: Account A forwards all mails to account B and account C. All the mails arrive at B, only some at C. I found a lot of users with the same problem, but no solution. It just seems that Microsoft very aggressively filters out mail without sending them to the spam folder. With defeats the prpuse of the spam folder. Any idea what to do?Outlook group email not sending
I want to use Outlook to send group emails. I can establish the groups and type the email, but I get an error message when I try to send that says it cannot send now, try again later ... which does not send either. I link to gmail. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thank you.
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