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Kelly_Edinger
Jan 25, 2018Bronze Contributor
Outlook 2016 not available to set as default mail app
hello, we have a new Surface with Windows 10 and Office 365 E3 account and yet we're unable to go through the default app settings and select Outlook. She's able to open Outlook and use it directly b...
Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Give a look at this article: https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlook-not-recognized-default-email-client/
Does it help?
Maggie Shea
Jul 26, 2018Copper Contributor
This worked! All we had to do was a quick repair of office and it started showing up again! thanks!
- Vishal KumarAug 21, 2018Copper Contributor
- Open Control Panel and search for Default Programs.
- Select Set Default Programs link.
- Choose Microsoft Outlook from the list of programs.
Click "Set this program as default".
Repair Office installation
If the affected program was installed after Office, try repairing the Office installation.
- Open Control panel, Program and Features
- Find and select your Office or Outlook installation
- Click Change
- Select Quick Repair then click the Repair button. (In older versions of Office, the option is called Repair.)
Try this once again if you are not able to resolve then you may try their https://officeerror.com/ blog this is not Microsoft Website but they listed resolvable steps.
- Falconet222Feb 06, 2020Copper Contributor
The Quick Repair does work, but I'm deploying Feature Build upgrades to our company and randomly the Default App for Outlook is not available until a QR is performed. My question to Microsoft is what is causing this random problem?Vishal Kumar