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Outlook web app notifications not working

the agency where I am working at is switching to Office 365 to handle emails and other stuff. I can't get desktop notification to work on Outlook, the browser based version. I'm running on Win10 Pro,...
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How to set custom date reminder in Outlook 365 Online web app

Is it possible / how can I set a flag with a custom date in Outlook 365 Web App? I right-click on the flag button and see everything but custom date!
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Disable Escape to discard mail with Outlook Web Access

I often accidentally hit the Esc key when preparing emails on OWA, resulting in my draft mail disappearing into the ether. Is there any way to disable this behaviour. I'm using Chrome on Windows 8.
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Customize OWA to Office365 Transition Page

We are implementing office 365 email accounts for our organization. To start the users still go to our regular outlook webmail login screen (xyzmail.xyz.org) They enter their credentials and click ...
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Phrase to trigger Action items in Office 365 (Outlook/OWA)

"Action items" in Office 365 Outlook detects sentence which needs follow up. I am wondering what phrase besides "please ..." could be used to trigger this function? Example:
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What's the criteria to be able to view the time recipients spent reading an email Outlook on the web?

I've sent an email using Outlook on the web. I read on Outlook on the web: "Not enough data to measure time spent reading this mail. What's the criteria to be able to view the time recipients ...
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Retrieve subscribed calendar URL from Outlook OWA

I have a subscribed calendar on Outlook OWA and the calendar is listed under the "Other calendars" section. I am not the owner of this calendar, and as such, I cannot 'share' the calendar as ...
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Verify alias for custom domain on outlook.com

Much like a previous question: Add email alias for custom domain with out verification, how can I verify the alias [email protected] under the account [email protected] when the alias is not an ...
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Adding many similar inbox rules in Outlook 365

I want to create several very similar inbox rules in Outlook 365. In Outlook 2007, I could do this by creating one rule, then use the Copy command and edit the part that needs to change. In Outlook ...
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Transfer old e-mails from Outlook OWA account to another

I want to transfer my old e-mails from Office Outlook Web Access to another Microsoft Outlook web App. Soon I will be no longer able to access that account and I have a lot of important e-mails that I ...
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Import gmail (emails and folders) to Outlook web

Apparently, it was possible to import data from Gmail to Outlook Web (not Outlook client), as this post suggests. The option was here: Unfortunately, that option is no longer there for Outlook web: ...
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How can I find my Outlook account using phone number only

I have created my Outlook mail before 2.5 years. Now I have forgot the email and password. I have only mobile number with me what I used while created account. I have tried this link: https://account....
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Desktop notification does not appear when an email is configured to be rooted to a folder

I use Microsoft Office 365 Outlook Web. I configured my Outlook Web to show desktop notifications. When I do not apply a rule to an email address then I successfully receive desktop notifications, ...
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How to remove duplicate emails in Office 365 OWA?

We are using Office 365 and prior to this, we used Gmail. When I was using Gmail I had a filter by which I was moving emails from a particular account to a folder and also keeping a copy in the Inbox. ...
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How can I retrieve the list of email addresses of all attendees of an event in the Microsoft Outlook web interface?

How can I retrieve the list of email addresses of all attendees of an event in the Microsoft Outlook web interface? (without having to copy paste each email address one by one)
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Outlook.com Web App Recovery Code

Call me paranoid, but if someone gained access to my recovery code (either physically, or via spyware as I printed it out), would they be able to permanently lock me out by changing my security info (...
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OWA signature with image

From Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003 how do I add an image to the signature? I went to owa/?ae=Options&t=Messaging and updated the signature file as text. There's no option for adding ...
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How to stay permanently signed-in into Outlook's web app?

By default, the web version of Outlook (corporate email, self-hosted) signs out automatically after some time. Is there a way to keep it signed in permanently?
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How to filter outgoing email to specific address, from Outlook Web App interface?

My email server uses Outlook Web App. There is a special account that will be used by a few users (who also know the password), but I am responsible for it. I want to block outgoing email when it is ...
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Unreadable mail in Outlook, sent from iPad

Today I received an email from a client. She is using an iPad to send the mail, but I'm receiving it as an unreadable mail. The translated error message is This message has a structure that cannot ...
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Why has text editing become garbled in Outlook Web App?

Starting about two weeks ago, composing a message in Outlook Web App (OWA) has become a pain. Word wrapping has become awry - some lines break early and others span wider than the screen because of ...
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Outlook Web App gives incomplete result with the search function

I noticed recently that the searches I perform in my Outlook Web Application (Exchange 2010) are not correct. Example: If I perform a search of a recent email (less than 2 months for example) the ...
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Can't log into Outlook because of Microsoft Authenticator code prompt

I typically use Google's applications and am less experienced with Microsoft products. A client of mine, a private healthcare business, provided me with login details for an Outlook on the Web account ...
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Turn off smooth scrolling in Office 365

In the Outlook component of Microsoft Office 365, when jumping between mails in a conversation, the email pane scrolls back and forth at varying speed for a second or two until it settles on its ...
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View old/past snoozed emails in Outlook

In Outlook, I sometimes snooze emails because I am on the go or busy and want to look at them later and they are probably important. However, when the day or time that I was supposed to take a look at ...
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How can I search for calendar events that are more than 1 year old on Outlook on the web (OWA)?

I want to look at some meeting info that occurred more than 1 year ago. I just know the email address of one of the participants of the meeting. Therefore, I go to https://outlook.office.com/calendar/...
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Outlook won't display a single (specific) email, says there is a connection issue

This is a very odd behavior from my organization's Outlook web application. The story: I get an email from a student with a couple of attached assignments a couple of days back. I look for it today -- ...
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Move emails to a different folder based on date filter

I can't seem to find a way to easily move emails from Sent folder to some other folder based on a date filter. I know that You can create rules for Inbox folder, but for some other folder I did not ...
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Does outlook permit searching in email headers?

I just noticed there is a specific header I would like to be able to search for. Is it possible to set up search on the basis of headers in Outlook 360? I see I can create a filter for a header, but ...
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Meeting reminders disappear when I accept meetings in Outlook Web App

I'm using Outlook Web App on Firefox. Whenever I get a meeting invitation, it appears in my inbox If I accept the invite, the item disappears from my inbox How do I stop the item from disappearing? ...
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How can I efficiently check if a given email address is included in a distribution list in Microsoft Outlook OWA?

From what I can see, clicking on the distribution list in Microsoft Outlook OWA doesn't give any efficient way to check if a given email address is included in a distribution list, since would have to ...
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How can I combine two search operators in the Microsoft Outlook web interface?

Blank space doesn't seem to work. E.g. when I use size:large hasattachment:true I see no results, Whereas both size:large and hasattachment:true used alone return results that are similar (i.e., I see ...
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How to mark search results as read

I just came back from vacation, and I have a few thousand messages to go through. Is there a way for me to run a search in Outlook Web, and then say "mark all these results as read"? If I click on ...
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