If you are using Outlook and you are connecting to Exchange Online, you might see (depending on what your IT administrator has set) a big "External" label to the left of each From field on each email that has an external sender. This can be quite distracting, expecially if 95% of all your emails are coming from external senders. You can remove that "External" label, by replacing the "From" column with a custom "From" field. Here is how to do it: In Outlook, go to View > View Settings Click Read more [...]

Outlook has an editor feature that suggests to insert your full name whenever you start typing your first name. This is really annoying because you might want to use only your first name for signing off your emails (i.e. "Regards, John", instead of "Regards, John Doe"). You can switch it off, but not in the auto-correct or auto-format options, as you might have expected. Outlook has hidden it under "Quick Parts" and "Building Blocks". Here is how to disable this annoying feature: Create a Read more [...]

When you move from Outlook 2010 to Outlook 2013 or 2016, you will find that in the list of Emails, Outlook has added a 3rd line: Sender Subject Start of email body I wanted to remove that 3rd line as it only takes space and it normally only contains stuff like "Hello John" which adds no real information. So I thought I could go to the View setting and change Maximum number of lines in compact mode = 2 But I still saw 3 lines in my email list! It took me quite a while until Read more [...]