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A set of subscription based software services that require monthly or periodic payment of fees to Microsoft Corporation.

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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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Office 365 forwarding email to gmail goes to spam because fails DMARC

With Office 365 set to forward emails to Google Apps (i.e. Gmail), the forwarded messages are going to spam because according to the Gmail interface, they have "a from address in example.com but has ...
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Publish free/busy status of multiple Exchange365 calendars

I have multiple calendars in Office 365 and would like to publish on the web my free/available status with respect to all the calendar. The same question have been asked for Google Calendar here: Show ...
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Can I share an Office365 Group Calendar with external users?

I've enabled external sharing in the Office365 administrative area. Users can share their own calendars with external users, which simply emails them a generic iCal URL that anyone with the link can ...
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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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How do I count the number of contacts/emails in Office 365

I only have access to the web interface. How do I count the number of contacts for a user? I have full admin access as well as access to the account in question. In Firefox, Ctrl+A highlights the ...
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Link to create a new email in Outlook 365

How do I make a link that will open a new email page in Outlook Office 365? For example, http://webmail.cris.com.tz/?view=compose&[email protected] will open a new email page in Zimbra webmail ...
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Office365 SMTP access is very slow

I've been given an Office365 account for work, and I'm try to set it up with an SMTP client (to be specific, msmtp, for use with Mutt). Though the SMTP transfer takes place OK, it takes a long time (>...
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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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SMTP with app-passowrd of O365 does not work

I have an email address in Office 365 which I would like to use for a scanner's SMTP feature. For this email address, I have enforced MFA to be able to set an app-password. I give the following ...
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All pictures inside my Office 365 word got disappear

I have a word document with 219 pages, and all pages contain one or 2 pictures. the size of the file was above 20 MB . now suddenly when i open it , it size is only 87 KB and all pictures are showing ...
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How to make a copy of shared read-only Word doc in OneDrive

TLDR; make a copy of shared read-only Word doc in onedrive. I've shared a file with my students using an "anyone with the link can view" url. I need the students to be able to make their own ...
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How to sort by descending date within a conversation in MS Outlook 365

I am using MS Outlook and I would like to sort emails based on conversation and then descending by date within each conversation so that the most recent email is at the TOP vs bottom. I tried Arrange ...
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How to use Gmail for POP from Office 365 when there are too many messages?

I have an email account in Office 365 that I want to transfer into my Gmail account. Unfortunately, the only way to do it would be to use POP (it doesn't seem like Gmail in the web interface allows to ...
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Turning off email notifications for Office 365 Groups

We need to start using "unified groups" in Office 365/Azure AD for an intranet project that uses Azure AD as the identitiy provider. We want communication to stay in the platform, and what ...
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How do you present slides (over browser) in Google slides similar to "office presentation service"

I am trying to "present google slides" online.That is, if people only have a browser and a conference line, I give them a link (ahead of time, say over email), they open it and see what I am ...
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Link to view PDF version of a Word Online doc

I create documents which I update frequently, I share these with a link which turns the document into a pdf when clicked ensuring whoever clicks the link always gets the most up to date, pdf version. ...
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Can you embed and link files that reside on sharepoint?

I have a Visio diagram I'm trying to link into a powerpoint presentation. Both files reside on the same Sharepoint site. I tried adding the Sharepoint document library to my local computer as a ...
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Use custom domain with Office 365 family and migrate all email-accounts to outlook.com?

I currently have my domain under management at some webspace-hoster for nameserver/webspace/emails. I want to move the webspace to GitHub-pages and move all the email imap-accounts completely to our ...
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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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Why are my Office 365 homepage app icons monochrome?

Why is it that when I log into my company Office 365 homepage I get all apps in a monochrome, whereas when I log into my personal account I get colours? I think the usability of monochrome icons is ...
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Office 365 timezone for New Zealand is 2 hours too early

In Office 365, via settings cog -> your app settings -> calendar -> general -> region and time zone I've set the time zone to "(UTC+12) Auckland, Wellington" But its currently displaying 2am as the ...
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Where did the single use code login option on live.com go?

The link to sign in with a single use code for a particular account isn't visible on the latest (as of December 2016) version of https://login.live.com/. Where is the option to log in with a single ...
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How to add a keyword rule to bounce email for certain user on Exchange Online?

We are using Office 365 email for our business. Is it possible to set up a mail rule, such that: for any incoming email to a certain user, e.g. John Lee there is a keyword in the mail subject or ...
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Flag email for follow-up in compose field

In the outlook for client application, I can flag an email for follow-up directly from the compose window (see screenshot below). Is there a way to do this in Outlook 365? The only way I can find is ...
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Improve performance in Microsoft OneDrive for Business webapp

I used to work with Google Drive and Dropbox but at this new job we have to go through Microsoft's OneDrive for Business. I use Chrome (latest version) on an Ubuntu 16.04 machine, and the web ...
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Sending auto replies in Office 365 based on message contents

I want to be able to search each email I receive for a word and, if found, autoreply with Office 365 email. I couldn't find a way to do this (only unconditionally), so I set up the email to forward to ...
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Mailbox can't synchronize appointment, contact, and tasks

I've got a mailbox in Dynamics CRM which is throwing the error "Mailbox can't synchronize appointments, contact, and tasks. Another Microsoft Dynamics CRM organization is configured to the same ...
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Office 365 inbox rule for "Other emails"

We just moved to Office 365. For an Office 365 account I can have a "Primary email address" and a few "Other email addresses". We used those "other" email addresses for promotions, system mails, etc....
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How will an existing Office 365 student subscription interact with a subscription from a laptop purchase?

I've previously purchased a Student copy of Office 365, which was a one time price for 4 years. This gives me a subscription through ~2018 . Say I now purchase a laptop or tablet that "includes" a ...
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Can I send email from Office 365 from a different email address?

Say I use Office 365 to pick up my email, all email I send is from my Office 365 address. I have a web app that sends email on my behalf from [email protected], which is set up as a forwarder to my ...
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Sharing calendars between Windows Live accounts

My spouse and I have Windows Live accounts (for our Windows Phone 8's, but let's just focus on the Windows Live end for now) and would like to share our calendars with each other. We haven't been able ...
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Receiving Windows Live friend requests at invalid Windows Live ID

My email address is being bombarded with Windows Live friend requests. The "to" field on these emails is clearly my email address, which I try to use as my Windows Live ID to sign in and change my ...
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Stop spam in the form of invitations

Nowadays, besides receiving quite some spam e-mail, I am seeing spam invitations on my Windows Live network. I haven't seen these people ever before, I'm 100% sure they are some spam people trying to ...
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Allowing bookings of o365 room for external users

I have a O365 tenant with a bunch of resources (=rooms) in it, e.g. [email protected], and a few users, e.g. [email protected]. The rooms are possible to book for users within the tenant, i.e., user1 may ...
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Sending emails from your alias in Office365?

Is there a way to send emails from an email alias in Office365? Currently alises only allow receiving emails to that alias which is not helpful.
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How can I modify the reminder time of my outlook calendar events?

I want to adjust the reminder time of all my calendar events. I want to change the reminder time for all existing and new events to "at time of event". For new events I tried to do this: ...
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Word's "Keep with next" paragraph option missing

I used to use the "Keep with next" paragraph option that was available in the regular version of Microsoft Word to keep a heading on the same page as the following text. Now we are using the ...
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How do I copy Outlook calendar information (Office 365) into Google calendar?

I am getting lots of results on related questions, but not quite what I want. I have Outlook Office 365 from some organization, and a Gmail account. What I want is, for example, once a day or even ...
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How to revert docx file to its original state after it was opened in gdocs?

At work, we use Google Drive as the repository for most files. Some of these files are Microsoft Office files : .docx (Word), .xslx (Excel), .pptx (Powerpoint). Let's take the case of a .docx file. If ...
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Automatically add a calendar entry

We are using Office 365 / Outlook calendar to keep track of customer appointments. We have certain forms on our website for customers to request an appointment. After such a form is submitted, a ...
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Microsoft Forms quiz can't have Add "Other" option

I try to create a Microsoft Forms quiz with a question that has some fix choices and should have an Other choice with a text input. At first I have already created a form in Microsoft Forms, and it ...
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Is there any way to export PowerPoint slides to PNG while having each image the name of the slide?

I need to have a presentation with PowerPoint in several languages, so after the translation, I do not know the content of the images anymore. Then, if I do export the file to PNG, the images have ...
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Is it possible to see Outlook from Office 365 in my Google Calendar?

I use Google Calendar as my main calendar but I'm now working at a company that uses the Microsoft Office 365 suit of apps. I like seeing all my calendars into one place so I can see whether I'm busy ...
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