If you are using the Classic Outlook, you might get a toggle on the upper right corner which allows you to switch to the "New Outlook". If you do not want this to appear, you can set a Registry key to hide this toggle:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\General
HideNewOutlookToggle = dword:00000001
I recently had an issue with Outlook 2021 and Outlook 365: Some of the favorites (located in the left pane on the top) were disappearing on Outlook restart.
I found some suggested solutions to start outlook from the commend line: outlook.exe /resetnavpane. But that did not help in my case.
What worked for me was to add the following Registry key and then restart Outlook:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Autodiscover
DWORD: ExcludeLastKnownGoodUrl
Value: 1
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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
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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
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