StepByStep Index

How to Create a Mailing List in Outlook Express
Select "Tools | Address Book..." from the menu in Outlook Express.

How to See a Sent Message's Bcc Recipients in Windows Mail or Outlook Express
It is great that Bcc: recipients are not visible to other recipients of the same email, but does Windows Mail or 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.

How to Highlight Text as with a Marker Pen in Windows Mail or Outlook Express
You don't have to drive the highlighter squeakily across your monitor to mark some text important in your emails. Here's how to mimic a highlighter and change the background color of select words, characters or paragraphs in Windows Mail and Outlook Express.

How to Access a Free Yahoo! Mail Account with Outlook Express
Install YPOPs! and make sure it is running.

How to Make Sure Outlook Express Does Not Break Emails into Tiny Pieces
If recipients of your emails complain about getting many, many messages with nothing but jumbled letters and numbers in them, it may be Outlook Express trying to turn one big email into many small messages. Fortunately, you can prevent it from attempting that and make it send normal mail instead.

How to Send a Message to an Outlook Express Mailing List
Distribute a message to the mailing list you have set up in Outlook Express.

How to Back Up or Copy Your Outlook Express Mail Rules
Save a backup copy of your Outlook Express mail filters, or transfer them to a different computer.

How to Make Sure Windows XP Does Not Hide the Outlook Express New Mail Icon
Has the Outlook Express new mail icon that used to announce incoming messages in the Windows system tray suddenly disappeared? Possibly, it is just hidden, and you can make Windows show it again.

How to Access an Inbox.com Email Account in Outlook Express
Combine everything that Inbox.com offers you on the web with everything that Outlook Express offers you on the desktop by setting up Outlook Express to download mail from your Inbox.com account.

How to Add a Member to a Mailing List in Outlook Express
Add a recipient to a mailing list you have created in Outlook Express quickly, and without adding them to the address book, too.

How to Sort a Mailbox in Outlook Express
Sort the emails in your Outlook Express Inbox or in any other folder from newest to oldest, by size, alphabetically, or by another order you desire.

Why You Should Let Outlook Express Compact Messages When It Asks You
When Outlook Express claims it can "free up disk space" by "compacting messages", let it get away with such vague language. The process is good and essential. Let Outlook Express compact your folders now and then.

What to Do When You Receive Duplicate Messages in Outlook Express
Do you keep getting the same messages again and again when you click "Send/Recv" in Outlook Express, or do you see duplicates of all emails in a particular folder? Here's what to do.

Secure Reading and Previewing Emails in Outlook Express
Email without peril. Here's how to secure Outlook Express so you can read and preview messages freely and still sleep well knowing you are not putting your computer at risk.

How to Reinstall Outlook Express (and Internet Explorer)
If your Outlook Express is showing slow, stubborn, stuck and strange behavior, a fresh start can help. Here's how to re-install Outlook Express even if the installer won't let you.

How to Send an Email to Undisclosed Recipients in Outlook Express
When you send an email to a group of recipients, would you rather not have everybody be able to see all the other people's names and addresses? Here's how easily that is accomplished in Outlook Express.

How to Create an Outlook Express Address Book Entry for "Undisclosed Recipients"
Select "Tools | Address Book..." from the menu.

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 Create Email Stationery Easily in Outlook Express
Do you want to use your letterhead in emails — automatically? Or have you just created a message so beautiful you may want to use its formatting again? Here's how you can save any email you are composing in Outlook Express as stationery, a template for future emails preserving all the formatting and wording.

Add a Graphic or Animation to Your Signature in Outlook Express
Here's how you can add an image or an animation to your signature at the bottom of every message you send with Outlook Express.

Import Your IncrediMail Contacts Into the Outlook Express Address Book
Select "Tools | Address Book..." from the menu.

Send Documents as a Single Zip File Attachment with Outlook Express
Want to send a bunch of files easily and in a compact form? Here's how to compress multiple documents in a single zip file and send it conveniently with Outlook Express.

Back Up or Copy Individual Messages with Outlook Express
Open the folder containing the message you want to back up.

Add Background Sound to Emails in Outlook Express
Select "Format | Background | Sound..." from the menu.

Color-Code Mail From a Particular Account in Outlook Express
Select "Tools | Message Rules | Mail..." from the menu in Outlook Express.