Hot answers tagged outlook.com
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I am sorry to say you cannot. Since Outlook.com has left "preview" the migration from Hotmail is permanent.
Microsoft's Hotmail phase-out: What's a user to do?
Q: If I move my Hotmail account to an Outlook.com account, can I change my mind and go back?
A: At this point, no. (When Outlook.com was still in "preview," Microsoft did allow this.)
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ZDNet has a good write up here, the relevant parts being:
No IMAP:
According to Microsoft’s documentation, IMAP is not supported.
Yes Active Sync:
For Outlook 2013, Exchange ActiveSync support is built in. Just enter
the email address and password and it should configure automatically.
For Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007, and Outlook 2003, you ...
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Unfortunately, there is no longer an option to switch back to Hotmail.
Why can't I switch back to Hotmail?
Over time, Hotmail will be phased out and Outlook.com will be the free email service from Microsoft. As part of this transition, we've removed the option to switch back to Hotmail.
Source.
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Spell check can be accessed from the top navigation bar on Outlook. After you click "Spell check," all misspelled words in your message body will be underlined in red. You can then left-click the word to get a pop-up list of corrections.
The screenshot above was taken in Internet Explorer 9.
I noticed that in Firefox, the Spell check feature is absent ...
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First of all, click on the settings icon in the top-right of the screen and then More mail settings
Then, click on the Email forwarding link (under the Managing your account section)
Choose the Forward your mail to another email account option, and enter your Gmail address in the Where do you want your messages to be sent? textbox. If you do not wish the ...
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Per Microsoft's website:
The IMAP protocol is unsupported, they only support POP3.
"The upgrade process supports email accounts using Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3), but not Instant Message Access Protocol (IMAP). A protocol is a standard set of formats and procedures that allow PCs to exchange information."
For you phone they say you can either ...
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Select Exchange account, fill in your username and password, depending on what mobile OS you using, one one step or two, you should get to screen where you will be asked to fill in the server name along with username and password.
In Domain\Username, fill in your complete email address and password. In Server, when you login to the web version of your ...
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It would appear that in an attempt to draw a line in the sand and increase functionality and synchronization times, Microsoft has adopted the implementation of EAS (Exchange Active Sync). Whilst this is a good measure within the Office & Windows Mobile based environment, it does alienate the other mobile communities.
In reality I doubt that it will be ...
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Yahoo - @Mehper has it right about Yahoo - left-clicking will open the mail in a new tab. Just click back over to the Inbox tab to see the full list again. This gives you tab functionality, just not at the browser level.
An alternative to doing this is to change your "mail options" to show the email preview pane in your inbox view. To see this you can go to ...
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Outlook.com allows the creation of email aliases, which is essentially the same as the Gmail and Yahoo features that you mention. Email sent to your aliases will forward to your regular Outlook.com account.
Outlook.com does have limits, though: you can only create up to 5 aliases per year, and you can have a maximum of 15 aliases in total.
Here is the link ...
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Here is the full list of the keyboard shortcuts for Outlook.com, and you could change the default shortcuts to the ones from Yahoo! or Gmail from the settings:
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Reverting back to Hotmail
You can simply revert back to the old Hotmail experience using the settings menu.
Click the settings icon in the top right.
Click "Switch Back to Hotmail" from the menu that appears.
The site will ask you whether you want to send feedback or not. Click whichever you prefer
You will be redirected to the old Windows Live ...
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When creating a new email, click "To" on the left-hand side and select the name of a group you want to send to.
If you don't have a group already set up, you can go into People (using the little down arrow in the top left) and select all the people you want to from your list and add to a new group.
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There's an even better way to do this in Outlook.com! In the Outlook People category scroll to the bottom off your contacts and look for the red box with a white # character in it. Click on this red box and you will get this index, instead of only 2 groups, now you've got 26 groups, all created automatically:
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It appears that groups are now just listed in the alphabetical listing on the left side, in amongst all of your contacts. Simply scroll down to find your group, click it, then you'll be able to edit it.
As you can see from my screen shot, my two groups, "test" and "Test2" have an icon to indicate that they're groups. Clicking it adds "Edit" and "Delete" ...
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As long as she typed "www.hotmail.com" or "www.outlook.com" into the address bar of her browser then anything that comes up asking her to change her password is probably legitimate.
However, if this is a link from an e-mail then it's probably best not to click it. Go to the site directly and change the password from the "Account settings" option on the menu ...
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I will answer this question assuming that you're using outlook.com.
There are two things that could be happening here:
1- Your emails are not sorted by date. To fix this, go to your inbox and sort the emails by Date as shown here.
2- Your emails may be getting grouped by conversation. When this happens, messages are not shown individually and they may ...
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I haven't found a way to print a weekly or monthly Outlook.com calendar list from Chrome, my preferred browser. When I want to do that, I access Outlook.com from the Internet Explorer browser and select "Agenda" from the View dropdown menu in the OUtlook upper right corner. Then click File > Print Preview on the IE Menu Bar and choose desirable a print size. ...
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I had the same problem where I couldn’t open any mail or even open my folders; all I could do was look at the screen. But I did find an answer that worked for me: by resetting Internet Options I was able to open everything. I opened Tools and went into Internet Options, clicked Advanced and hit reset. It asks if you want to reset personal settings and I said ...
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I have just verified it again and copy paste of the contacts is working fine. Are you facing issues on any specific browser?
I type some email addresses on notepad, did copy and paste in outlook on firefox and it could send email to all address.
Kindly let me know if you are facing issue on any specific browser.
Thanks,
Ankit Mehta
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Click the Gear icon to open the options menu.
Click "Rules for sorting new messages" under "Customizing Outlook"
Click "New" to create a new rule
You can act on messages based on
Sender's address
Sender's name
To or Cc line
Subject
Message has attachments
Depending on which option you choose you'll additionally compare this a string with "is", "is ...
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After continued searching, i've discovered that it is not possible to search "Deleted" items in the outlook.com or hotmail.com (and i assume, live.com) web apps.
See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/hotmail-files/feature-request-search-deleted-items-in/d70ae385-5f48-468b-a4f3-e5a85d208b9f
Hopefully they add this feature; it would be ...
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This seems like a missing settings - Please have a look at the discussion on Microsoft Community
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When you log in into your Hotmail client, you should be able to go to Options and then choose Upgrade to Outlook.com
It also should not matter, what you use as login to your Windows Live account - it can be even GMail.
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There's no specific amount of time. If you use your Outlook.com account for a while (basically showing Outlook.com that you're not a spammer), Outlook.com will figure out that you're not a spammer and automatically increase your quota.
Alternatively, you can verify your account by going to http://sms.live.com and verifying your mobile number (no need to ...
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The simple answer is no.
The fact is, Microsoft clearly didn't think about this enough. I now have celebs that I follow on Twitter in my contacts list - what a terrible idea. I can't unlink Twitter either because I need it for my Windows Phone. They are not really "contacts" are they, Microsoft?
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UPDATE:
Outlook’s “People” feature lets you integrate contacts from Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as from other sites and sources.
Note that I said “integrate,” not import. The difference is that when you “connect” to the social services, to use Microsoft’s term, it doesn’t really import them. In other words, it doesn’t copy the address ...
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