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Answers to questions about Microsoft Office, the email component of Microsoft Office.
How can I stop a message in my Outlook outbox that won't send?
Once a message goes into your outbox, Outlook tries to send it. While it's trying, there's little you can do. So the trick is to force it to stop trying.
How do I backup email to an external hard disk using Outlook?
Backing up or archiving portions of your email collected in Outlook is pretty easy with one basic concept: creating and opening your own PST files.
How do I control which email accounts Outlook tries to download?
How do I get Outlook 2010 to deliver multiple accounts to a single inbox?
Outlook 2010 delivers messages for multiple email accounts into multiple inboxes by default. I'll show you how to set the delivery folder yourself.
How do I get my saved Outlook emails onto my new computer with Windows Live Mail?
When transferring emails from Outlook to use on another computer, it's important to create files that can be read by the new computer.
How do I repair a corrupt .pst file?
.pst files are Microsoft Outlook's email and data storage containers. They can occasionally be damaged, but Microsoft Office includes a repair tool.
How do I view full headers in Outlook 2010?
With Outlook 2007 and 2010 interface changes, the path to locate the full headers for an email message has changed. I'll show you how I found them.
How do I view full mail headers in Outlook?
Full email headers - the headers you normally don't see - are well buried in Outlook. I'll show you how to view them in Outlook, Outlook Express and Thunderbird.
How do Outlook and Outlook Express relate?
Even though they share similar names and do similar things, Outlook and Outlook Express are actually not related to each other at all.
Outlook error 0x800ccc0d - how do I fix it?
Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d is simply a failure to connect - that's in the error message. How to fix Outlook Error 0x800ccc0d involves a little investigation.
Three ways to find Outlook's PST file
Outlook keeps all of your information in a PST or Personal STorage file. It's often important to be able to locate it, and I'll show you how.
Why do I get a shut-down error message on Outlook when I am not running Outlook?
Sometimes, programs are running in the background and we don't know it. I explore how to find what's running and ways to keep those programs from starting up in the first place.