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Outlook Classic "hangs" if I want to open attachments
I have outlook classic on 3 PCs. Within the last month, I have noticed that it takes an incredibly long time to open attached files. Outlook "hangs" for up to 1 minute, and then the file opens. The same thing happens if I copy a file from one email to another. Does anyone have an idea what is causing this. It is quite annoyingSolved64Views0likes2CommentsConditional Formatting to New Outlook Calendar
Please bring Conditional Formatting to the New Outlook Calendar. This is a feature we have in Classic Outlook and something I use regularly to help maintain my organization. I've programmed it to color Work Time separate from Travel Time and various meeting categories so that visually I know a lot about the appointment just by the color.Solved83Views0likes2CommentsOutlook login - temporary problem with recovery service
Hi, Sorry if this is the wrong place in advance, I have had my hotmail.com account probably since circa 1998 and it has everything on there. It seems someone has tried to login so many times that suspicious activity has been detected, I have tried many ways to recover it. I have 2FA Switched on but when I try password recovery to get it to text my mobile it states that service is unavailable :-( It will email to my 1st alternate email account however it then asks to use the second one to which was an old work account that I have no access to :-( Any ideas? do I just wait until it unblocks my phone number? I have the 25 digit recovery key but I get the below error. All help welcome as I really need my account back!Solved113Views0likes3Commentsoutlook says storage is full but its not.
can someone explain how im paying for a service from a multibillion dollar company but yet it says i only have 5gb for email then says i have 100gb of storage but cant send or receive emails. support is no help and they only submit tickets to my email but guess what i cant receive them.Solved71Views0likes1CommentOutlook: Teams Add-in Failing on Intialization
Hi all, Yesterday and today I have seen several people across at least two separate organizations have their Teams Add-In in Outlook crash and get disabled. Upon initial reviews from our team, we have found the following: Visual C++ runtime The .NET Runtime logs show an unhandled exception in: Microsoft.Teams.MeetingAddin.Scheduler.OneAuthUtils.Startup This occurs while the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Outlook is initializing. The crash happens right after the Teams add-in loads Curious is anyone else is seeing the same issue and if any fixes have been found.Solved589Views0likes2CommentsCalendar Invitations Not Arriving with Attachment Icons in Inbox
Multiple computers in a household using Windows 11, Outlook 2021 and Google Mail. Up until the last week or so, whenever I receive a calendar invitation generated through either Outlook or Google, it arrived in my Outlook 2021 inbox with an icon showing an attachment. This is helpful in distinguishing emails that are calendar invitations versus just a regular email message. All of a sudden it just stopped doing that. I've run several tests generating calendar invitations from both "idevices" as well as Outlook on multiple computers, it doesn't matter. Calendar invitations are now arriving in my Outlook inbox with no icon. I'd like to get that functionality back. Any ideas?Solved71Views0likes3CommentsProblems using Outlook, Gmail and Google Calendar
For a while now, when I have taken Teams meeting invites to my Microsoft Gmail account via Outlook, when I accept them it deletes the email and I lose the Teams link. I have now diagnosed that my Outlook is set up so that my largely defunct Hotmail account is the "primary" account, and all Outlook calendar events that are created get created on the Hotmail calendar. Apparently because I got the Hotmail from Microsoft. I never use my Hotmail account. How do I get this set up so that these invites will create a Calendar event to my Gmail account's calendar, and hopefully sync them with my Google Calendar on my phone, because that's generally where I take Teams meetings from? I apologize if this is the wrong forum.Solved115Views0likes1CommentGmail sync issues within Outlook Classic
Yesterday, my Gmail folders stopped or failed to sync within Outlook Classic. I went through a number of steps including removing the account, re-adding it but now the sub-folders have disappeared completely. Every time I launch Outlook Classic, there is a Send/Receive Error. I have for now started using the new version of Outlook of which all the Gmail folders are present. However, this new version never allowed (and still does not allow) you to add additional email accounts. It says you don’t have permission to, etc… As a result of errors and issues with both versions of Outlook, I am having to use Outlook Classic for work (M365) email accounts and the new Outlook for my Gmail account. This is absurd . I have seen that this appears to be a recent and known issue with Outlook Classic and looks to being investigated. But why and how did this even happen in the first place? Who at Microsoft has decided to implement a change or update which has impacted a large volume of customers all over the world!?!Solved536Views2likes8CommentsEmails to self considered JUNK, no way to fix unless... (partial solution enclosed)
Any email that I send to myself, from one of my outlook emails, gets classified as JUNK and put in the junk folder with the other 600 junk mails a day. I try to mark it as not junk in the app or in edge and it will NOT allow me to do that. It will not allow me to make a rule or fix it. What does work: Go into your android phone and use the outlook ap. Simply mark it as "Not Junk" and it will take. Android gets the job done. Microsoft will not. WHY would Microsoft classify email from my address as junk and not allow it to be fixed?Solved141Views0likes3CommentsOutlook - save as on attachments missing
Hello, the Microsoft documentation suggests that "Attachments are saved in your Documents folder by default. You can't change the default location but can specify a different location each time you save an attachment. Choose the drop-down arrow to the right of the attachment icon to open the attachment menu. Choose Save As to save to your computer or cloud storage location." This drop down option is not there. I am not sure how long this has been the case as I do not use this personally however a colleague obviously finds it very poor to work with attachments saving into a random onedrive folder where she has to move the content where she wants or downloading it and then moving it. I had read that the transition to outlook new removed it and then it had been added back sometime after, looking at posts people had made about the issue. It doesn't seem like this is an option for any file types for anyone in our organisation, any suggestions ? Thank you, Jamie.Solved224Views0likes1Commentsetting up gmail in classic outlook
I have purchased a new laptop and am having trouble setting up gmail in classic outlook. I am receiving a message "we weren't able to set up your Google account with IMAP. You may need to make changes to your Gmail settings" any advice?Solved472Views1like6CommentsOutlook and verizon email account
I've run into an issue this past week where I've tried changing my Verizon email account from IMAP to Pop3. I get errors like this; Task 'email address removed for privacy reasons - Receiving' reported error (0x80042110) : 'Your POP3 server is providing inconsistent information. The number of messages returned by the STAT command does not match the number of items returned by the UIDL or LIST commands. Contact your POP3 or Internet service provider.' I've created a new profile, I've done SCANPST probably more than 5 times, regenerated my third party password on AOL and it consistently fails for the same error. I've run the same version of Outlook on a different machine with th same results. My pop settings are pop.verizon.net, port 995, ssl/tls. The progress window shows that it's downloading messages but it sits there for a couple of minutes and then pops the error up; AOL adimmently says that it's got to do with Outlook because it works fine on there webmail. I can't seem to find an email alternative that creates a pst database so that I could rule one or the other out. Getting extremely frustrated. I would get completely away from the Verizon email but I have had it for so long; it's established everywhere I've done business, contacts, credit cards, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. PS I've even tried just creating a whole new pst, no luck. TIASolved136Views0likes2CommentsConversation mode is missing
Recently, a number of users have no longer been able to set their Outlook Classic version 2511 (build 19426.20260) to conversation mode. We have already performed a repair on Office and a reset view. In the web and the new Outlook app, the conversations are still visibleSolved213Views0likes4CommentsWhy does MS Outlook not allow global blocks
Hi, Today i was blocking some spammers from my email and it occured to me that this could be so simple if MS Outlook would allow us to block global email address. For example why can't i block *@*.ru.ac.th Which just sent me a tone of junk, the senders get around this by just changing a small part of the email address but the main part the end is always the same, so why can't i block it? When i try, outlook tells me it is invalid. ThanksSolved109Views0likes4CommentsRecall email sent using the Sharepoint share feature
Accidentally shared a site via Sharepoint to a group. In Outlook on the web, in my Sent folder, the message appears as if I had sent it from Outlook. I used the 'Recall message' button on the ribbon and selected 'Only recall this message'. I don't knoew what is expected normal response after clicking OK in this window, but it simply closed the window and nothing else changed. It makes wonder if an email sent this way cannot be recalled?Solved190Views0likes1CommentSender logo in email
Some of the emails I received in new Outlook had a logo from the sender inserted above the message. To stop this behavior go to Settings > Message handling > Shopping and uncheck For shopping-related messages, show a sender logo and relevant links in the message header. Make sure to Save your changes.Solved246Views0likes2CommentsOutlook Scam EMail
Received an EMail from a known friend wanting to talk via EMail, so replied to EMail. Then rang them and they confirmed their contacts had been scammed. Subsequently realised I should have known as the To Address line was blank. Can the scammer now access my Contacts? No link or attachment was opened.Solved229Views0likes4CommentsFavorites shared folders not displaying related shared account
New problem with Outlook 20251212003.10 I have plenty shared mailbox, with every Inbox folder as Favorite to directly see when there is new incoming mails in some of it... Before, Outlook appended the account name to the folders having the same name... But not anymore... it's really problematic... How can i distinguish my different shared accounts ?Solved1KViews0likes10CommentsLost Outlook Contacts
Hi. I upgraded a friend from Office 2016 to Office 2024 and in the process lost her contacts. I have worked at finding them but no luck. Plan B is populate her contact list from her messages. Is it possible to either collect addresses from a set of emails and move those addresses to the contact list? Or even just go to each message individually and right-click on an address and send to contacts? (not an option now) Or can you suggest any other option? Thanks.Solved161Views0likes4Comments
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