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Outlook Express Tips for Composing and Formatting Messages

Email is as much about feverishly composing creative messages (both about private matters and about business ideas) as it is about eagerly awaiting new mail to come. Outlook Express offers a rich environment for composing, creating, designing and decorating emails from simple to sophisticated. Get the most out of it with these Outlook Express email composing tips.
How to Set Up Outlook Express for Lazy but Correct Replies
If you want to reply smarter, not harder, try this lazy and comfortable way of creating emails in Outlook Express.
How to Add Bcc Recipients in Outlook Express
Send blind carbon copies of your email messages with Outlook Express. The regular recipients won't know that the Bcc recipients got a copy as well.
Change a Message's Priority in Outlook Express
Set your priorities for messages right. Here's how to change the priority of an email you are composing in Outlook Express.
How to Forward a Message as an Attachment with Outlook Express
Use a clean and simple way of forwarding emails in Outlook Express.
How to Resend a Message in Outlook Express
Want to send a message to yet another recipient, or did you get a delivery failure back and want to try again? Here's how to resend emails in Outlook Express.
How to Have Outlook Express Send Mail Immediately
Make the emails you send go right to their recipients instead of just to Outlook Express's "Outbox" folder.
How to Change the Name From Which Your Emails are Sent in Outlook Ex.
Want to (appear to) be someone else? Here's how to change the name that appears in the From: line of emails you send with Outlook Express.
Set the Default Email Account in Outlook Express
Change the email address Outlook Express puts in the "From:" field by default when you create a new message or click on an email address on a web site, for example.
Send Mail Later in Outlook Express
Put messages in the Outlook Express outbox instead of delivering them immediately so you can still edit them before they go off to the recipient.
How to See a Sent Message's Bcc Recipients in Outlook Express
It is great that Bcc: recipients are not visible to other recipients of the same email, but does Outlook Express conceal to the sender who they bcc:ed, too? No, and here's how to uncover all the Bcc: addressees of a message you sent.
Request Read Receipt for a Message in Outlook Express
Ask Outlook Express to ask for you to be notified when the recipient opens your message.
Request Read Receipts for All Messages in Outlook Express
Want to know when your emails are read? Here's how to make Outlook Express request read receipts from recipients by default.
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