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Top 50 Most Popular Outlook Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

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The good, the bad, and the popular. Are there any correlations?
Well, find out for yourself if the most popular tips, tutorials and techniques for Outlook are not also some of the most helpful.

Of course, the most popular are not the only Outlook tips, and they are not the only good tips for Outlook:

(Updated October 2012)

1. How to Set Up an Out of Office Vacation Auto-Reply in Outlook

While you are away from the computer, Outlook can automatically reply to incoming mail with a pre-written message telling senders when you’ll be able to reply individually.

2. How to Create an Email Signature in Outlook

Set up a short piece of text containing essential contact information, a tag line or maybe an ad or quotation to be inserted in every email you send from Outlook.

3. How to Access Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook

Use Microsoft Outlook to fetch and send email messages through your Windows Live Hotmail account comfortably and with all the power and flexibility of a real email client.

4. How to Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Mail, Contacts and Other Data

Backing up all your important Outlook data (mail, contacts, calendars, and more) is as simple as copy and paste.

5. How to Export Your Outlook Contacts to a CSV File

Keep your contacts even if you leave Outlook behind. If you save your Outlook contacts as a CSV file, you can easily import them elsewhere.

6. How to Access Gmail with Outlook

Outlook and Gmail make a great couple; they send each other messages all day long. Here's how to set up access to a Gmail account in Outlook, and it is terrifically easy.

7. How to Set Up a Distribution List in Outlook

Create your own mailing lists in Outlook and send messages to groups of people easily.

8. How to Archive Old Mail in Outlook and Keep the PST File Small

If you want to make sure your Outlook is fast and snappy, keep your main PST file size small — by moving old mail to a separate archive file, for example.

9. How to Prevent Winmail.dat Attachments from Being Sent in Outlook

Beat application/ms-tnef and winmail.dat. Here's how to configure Outlook to make sure it does not send mysterious and inexplicable winmail.dat attachments with your emails to unsuspectingly confused recipients.

10. How to Import Contacts from Excel or a CSV File into Outlook

You extensive list of contacts or customers is stored happily in a spread sheet or database? After some simple importation steps, they can be in Outlook, too, and build the basis for a mailing list, for example.
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