September 20, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Unfortunately, dealing with Outlook duplicate emails is a common frustration. For various reasons, we all end up having to deal with lots of duplicated emails, but removing them can be a very time consuming task, if done manually.
In this article we will detail how to automatically remove Outlook duplicate emails using Weight Diet, an Outlook optimization add-in designed to remove duplicate and obsolete items from Outlook mailboxes.
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September 19, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Like all the other Outlook versions, Outlook 2013 – 2019 lets you define a rule to automatically add a CC address to emails, but it doesn’t offer a similar option to always BCC someone. This article describes how to always BCC in Outlook using the Bells & Whistles Outlook add-in.
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September 18, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
ScanPST (scanpst.exe) is the Outlook Inbox Repair Tool designed to verify Outlook PST files for integrity errors. Earlier Outlook versions let you access ScanPST easily through the Outlook / Office Diagnostics feature, but Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 make it harder for you to manually run the Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe). This article shows the location of scanpst.exe on Outlook 2010 & 2013.
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September 16, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
One important feature of Bells & Whistles is its Outlook Alerts section: this article details the Outlook Alerts options available with the Bells & Whistles add-in for Outlook 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019.
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September 13, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
This article shows how to use the free Outlook add-ins manager provided as part of the Bells & Whistles Outlook add-in installation.
Basically, Bells & Whistles for Outlook is packed with a free Outlook add-ins tool that lets you enable or disable all your Outlook add-ins, with a single click. The goal of this utility is to easily let you manage all your installed add-ins (enabled or disabled), without having to go through the more complicated add-ins management internal procedure of Outlook. The add-ins utility works with all Windows versions of Outlook, including Outlook 2013 x32 and x64.
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September 13, 2013
Email Address Collector is a Windows email address extractor designed to scan and extract email addresses from almost any data source, including email folders, Office documents or PDF files. This tutorial details the steps required to extract email addresses from PDF files.
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September 13, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
As you probably know, when you reply or forward an email, Outlook automatically sets your “From” address as the one being used in the initial replied/forwarded Outlook email, no matter which is your default Outlook email account. It can be a frustrating process to always manually change the account to send from… On this article we will detail how to always send emails from one account in Outlook (default account).
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September 12, 2013
This brief tutorial shows how to freely convert Outlook emails to PDF files in Windows, without using expensive PDF conversion tools.
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September 12, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
This articles describes solutions to enable add-ins that are marked as inactive in Outlook but they are NOT marked as disabled. Outlook actually has 3 status labels for add-ins: enabled, disabled and inactive. Most people confuse an inactive add-in with a disabled add-in, but they are not really the same thing.
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September 9, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
This tutorial details how to setup auto reply Outlook emails using the Auto Reply Manager Outlook add-in. As its name suggests, this Outlook add-in is especially designed to help you auto reply from Outlook, with just a few clicks. The add-in works with all Outlook versions starting from Outlook 2003 and including Outlook 2019.
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September 9, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
If Outlook keeps crashing, read this article to find out the most frequent causes for Outlook crashes and their solutions.
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September 8, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
We use to tell our customers to always update Outlook with its latest updates, but – with Office / Outlook 2013, 2016 and 2019 – updating Outlook it’s not as easy as it should be. This tutorial describes how to update Outlook 2013, depending on its installation method.
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September 7, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
This article explains how to prevent / disable the Outlook security warning window on all modern Outlook versions, including Outlook 2019. The Outlook security warning window pops up whenever a non-trusted program (Outlook add-in, Macro script, etc) is trying to access Outlook and send email on your behalf. The goal of this Outlook security warning is to notify you about this action and prevent unauthorized Outlook access. However, if you actually want to use Outlook is a programmatic way, this Outlook security warning can become annoying.
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September 5, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
If you are using Bells & Whistles for Outlook or any other Outlook add-in that is supposed to insert various text snippets in your Outlook emails, you should want to format your texts using the same font color as the default font color of Outlook, so your entire email content looks uniform.
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September 5, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Recurring emails are email messages that are supposed to be automatically sent, periodically, based on user defined settings. Although Outlook does not offer an easy way to send recurring emails, this article describes how to schedule recurring emails in Outlook, with only a couple of clicks.
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September 5, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
If you use your Outlook.com email account in a regular email client, such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird, you may have received the error “Exceeded the login limit for a 15 minute period” (code 0x800CCC90). This articles details the error and its solution.
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September 4, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Up to Outlook 2010, you used to be able to choose to “Download headers only” for all your Outlook accounts. However, this changed with Outlook 2013 – this blog article describes what has changed.
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September 1, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This article explains how to add hyperlinks to images inserted in Outlook 2013 – 2019 emails. It may sound trivial, but unless you are accustomed with Outlook, adding a hyperlink to an image in Outlook is not as obvious as it should be.
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August 29, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
In this article we’ll explain how to send HTML bulk emails from Outlook 2019 or older versions, using Easy Mail Merge.
As you probably know, Easy Mail Merge is an Outlook add-in designed to send bulk emails from Outlook. It creates separate emails for each recipient and it sends them one by one while also allowing you to personalize the email content using mail merge fields. It supports all Outlook versions, including Outlook 2019.
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July 31, 2013
In case you need to troubleshoot Outlook, it is a good idea to load Outlook without loading any 3rd party Outlook add-ins. This article explains just how to do it.
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July 30, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
When you install Outlook 2010 / 2013 or newer, it automatically disables images in emails that you are receiving. Images are disabled for security reasons, as they are widely used by spammers to validate email addresses by loading a special image inside the email content: if that image file gets downloaded from the spammer’s server, then obviously the related email address (your address) is valid & in-use by someone.
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July 27, 2013
Updated: April 6, 2020
Are you considering to attach or to embed a video in an email message? This article analyzes video emails and shows how to email video in Outlook.
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July 26, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
Outlook 2013 introduced the ability to send an email from an email address that is not defined as an Outlook account. This article describes how to send an email from other email address in Outlook 2013 – 2019.
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July 25, 2013
Updated: April 2, 2020
There can be many occasions when you would want to send emails with a delay. For example, what if you need the email to be delivered on a different time zone, at 3AM your time? Would you stay awake until 3AM just to send that email? This article explains how to send email with delay in Outlook 2013 to 2019.
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July 24, 2013
Updated: March 26, 2020
For various reasons, some people simply prefer to always send plain text Outlook emails. This article describes how to format and send plain text emails in Outlook using the Outlook options or using a 3rd party Outlook add-in.
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July 23, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This blog article describes how to insert autotext in Outlook (Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016 or 2019), using two auto-text methods: the internal Outlook AutoText feature and the auto-text options of the Bells & Whistles add-in for Outlook.
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July 21, 2013
Updated: March 31, 2020
This article explains how to recover deleted Outlook emails, if you are using Outlook as a stand-alone, POP or IMAP email client and if you are using it as a client for Microsoft Exchange. Obviously, the first solution would be to look for the deleted emails in the Deleted Items folder… but what if you hard deleted the Outlook emails or if you emptied your Deleted Items folder?
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July 19, 2013
Updated: March 27, 2020
This tutorial describes four different ways to remove Outlook add-ins from your Outlook installation.
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July 17, 2013
Given the comments posted on our Outlook.com server settings page, we realized that some people are having problems enabling a TLS secure connection on Windows Live Mail. This article describes how to enable TLS on Windows Live Mail.
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July 16, 2013
No, we aren’t joking and no, we aren’t overestimating ourselves. We are sure Easy Mail Merge has the most advanced Outlook mass email engine. This article will show you how Easy Mail Merge can create complex mass email scenarios, allowing you to personalize every aspect of your outgoing mass email.
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