Change default contact folder in outlook 2013

How do I change default contact folder in outlook 2013 - Microsoft Community

Method 1 worked for me. I didn't try Method 2:

Method 1:

Open the folder in which all the contacts are saved > Select all the contacts by holding the Ctrl + letter 'A' from the key board > Now copy the contacts > Go to the default contact folder > Paste the all the contacts in it.

Method 2:

Click on Address book (Ctrl + Shift + B), Click on the Tools menu, click Options. Select the drop down list under ‘Whenopening the address book, Show this address list first’ and select the appropriate contact folder.

Source: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_365hp-outlook/how-do-i-change-default-contact-folder-in-outlook/f3c3bc2d-ad64-4d75-ad67-5597284b7512

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Email Send Link no longer working in Chrome

When I had to upgrade to Win 8, the link to send email from Outlook no longer worked. Go into your default programs, find Outlook (desktop), click:

MAILTO
URL:mailto
Google Chrome

DON'T BUY Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro!

Update 2/7/2015:
Will be returning this laptop. Since it does this "yoga" thing, all software thinks it's a tablet! Outlook client emails are formatting as if they are on a mobile device (very skinny), and font on remote desktops is itsy-bitsy and can't be changed.

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1/19/2015: Ordered a new PC laptop today: Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro - 80HE000LUS - Light Silver

This new processessor allows the laptop to run without a fan. And, no harddrive in most any laptop anymore, BTW.

Will let you know how it goes*.

p.s. I thought the yoga thing was stupid but it's growing on me...

Specs:

• Intel Core M 5Y70 Processor (1.10GHz 1600MHz 4MB)
• 512GB SSD
• 13.3" QHD+ LED Glossy Multi-touch with integrated camera (3200x1800)
• Ram: 8.0GB DDR3L 1600 MHz
• Intel® HD Graphics 5300
• 2.62 lbs !
• Windows 8.1 Pro 64
• ClickPad
• Thickness: 0.5in !
• 4 Cell 44.8 Watt Hour Li-Polymer
• 12.99in x 8.98in
• Bluetooth Version 4.0
• Lenovo AC Wireless (2x2)
• One year

Ordered from: http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/

Original price: $1,749.99
Web price: $1,379.00
Less Discount code (found on retailmenot.com) -$50.00
Shipping $0.00

Tax (San Francisco) $119.29
Total $1,448.29

*I like the machine so far, but:

2/3/2015--

• Power cord is too short.
• Removed Harmony software - constantly popping up to ask if I wanted to optimize this or that, and wouldn't hold previous preferences. Gone!
• Arghhhh... All that real estate at the top of the keyboard and you didn't include the F-keys row?? Annoying to have to click FN to activate an F-key.
• Some Outlook 2013 emails display in their mobile format (irritating!!) and no way to convince the machine is not a mobile device. Even the old emails that were brought over from my previous machine are now formatting in mobile. Maybe since this Yoga can turn into a tablet, Outlook thinks this is mobile. Dunno but really sux!!

Restore and view archived items - Outlook

Keeping this here for safe-keeping!

Restore and view archived items in Outlook

All messages, contact information, calendars, and other data that you create in Microsoft Outlook are kept in your Personal Folders file (.pst) or if you use a Microsoft Exchange Server account, on your organization’s Exchange server. Outlook provides an archive function to purge your commonly used folders of older content that you don't need, but don't want to delete. You can have this done automatically with AutoArchive, or you can also archive manually as desired.

While the archived content no longer appears in folders that you commonly use, you can still access and retrieve those items if you want to restore that content.

What do you want to do?

>>Copy all archived items from a .pst file back into their original folders

1. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
2. Click Import from another program or file. Click Next.
3. Click Personal Folder File (.pst). Click Next.
4. In the File to import box, change the default file name in the path from backup.pst to the name of the archive file you're importing from. Click Next.
5. Click the folder to import from. If you want, click Include subfolders.
6. Specify how you want Outlook to handle duplicate items.
7. Click Import items into the same folder in, and then click the folders with the same name as the folders you're importing from.
8. Click Finish.

>>Copy all archived items from a .pst file into a new folder

1. In Outlook, create a new folder to copy the archived items to.
2. On the Go menu, click Folder List, and then in the Folder List, click the new folder.
3. On the File menu, click Import and Export.
4. Click Import from another program or file. Click Next.
5. Click Personal Folder File (.pst). Click Next.
6. In the File to import box, change the default file name in the path from backup.pst to the name of the archive file you're importing from. Click Next.
7. Click the folder to import from. If you want, click Include subfolders.
8. Specify how you want Outlook to handle duplicate items.
9. Click Import items into the current folder.
10. Click Finish.

>>Move individual items from a .pst file into their original folder or a new one

1. On the Go menu, click the Folder List, click Archive Folders (or the name you used for the archive location).
2. Click the folder containing the items you want to move.
3. Select the items you want to move, and then drag them into their original folders in the Folder List.

Source: Restore and view archived items - Outlook

How to remove a name from an Outlook Distribution List (aka Contact Group)

Create and edit a Contact Group (formerly distribution lists) - Outlook

• Start a new email message
• Click "To"
• In the drop-down list highlight the distribution list you want to change and then right-click on Properties.
• You can add/remove names here (if you have rights to do so)

Recover Deleted Outlook Task

To find a lost Task in Outlook 2010:

1. In Mail view, select "Deleted Items" folder
2. Go to "Recover" tab, then select "Recover Deleted Items" icon
3. Here you'll see all your deleted mail, tasks, etc.
4. Sort the most recently deleted items to the top by clicking on the "Deleted" header twice (sometimes I sort by Subject if I remember what I named it)
5. Highlight the item you want to recover and click the "Recover Selected Item" icon in the top left corner
6. Then, close the dialog box and go to your Deleted Items folder and drag the task to the task section (NOTE, in Outlook 2010 recovered items go to the Deleted Items folder - NOT back to the original location)

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Yahoo Plus Email through Outlook: Working Again!!

Recently Yahoo made some changes in how you access your Yahoo Plus mail through Outlook. The Yahoo Concierge Team sent the links below, and sure enough the one I followed (Access Yahoo Mail in Microsoft Outlook 2007) worked!

Enable POP in Yahoo Mail

POP server settings

Access Yahoo Mail using Outlook Express

Access Yahoo Mail in Outlook 2002/2003

Access Yahoo Mail in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Access Yahoo Mail in Microsoft Outlook 2010

Access Yahoo Mail in Outlook 2013

Thanks Cory!

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Sort ToDo List in Microsoft Outlook

For some reason it took me awhile to figure out how to properly alpha-sort the list under the To-Do Bar in Microsoft Outlook. This is what you  have to do:

Right click on "Arranged By:" at top of list.
Select: Custom > Sort > Subject (ascending) be sure to select NO when asked: "The field "Subject" that you want to sort by is not shown in the view. Do you want to show it?"

Version: Microsoft Outlook 2007

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Change Outlook Default Font

Somehow my default font changed to Calibri(body) 9... tiny!

Anyway, in Outlook (2010), click through:

• Tools
• Options
• Mail Format
• Stationery and Fonts
• Font (under New mail messages)

I like to choose Arial, Regular, 11  as this is most universal and you pretty much know what it'll look like when your recipient reads it.

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Add Bullets into Microsoft Outlook Tasks

CTRL + SHIFT + L

Yep, there's no icon to do that, only these shortcut keys.

And to get numbers? CTRL + ALT + L

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How to sync your iPad with Outlook

How to sync your iPad or iPhone with Outlook.

• With iPad connected (either tethered or via WiFi) open iTunes.
• In the left panel of iTunes under DEVICES, click your iPad.
• Click Info at the top of the screen
• Click those items you'd like to sync.

I sync:
All Contacts with Outlook.
All Calendars with Outlook.
All Mail from Outlook
Under Other I sync Safari Bookmarks
I don't sync Notes because I sync those to iCloud (you don't want to sync to both places as you will likely end up with duplicates on your device)

Under Advanced, I have nothing checked, if things got out of whack on the iPad I would then check most all of these. Sync once. Then un-check them.

Be sure to turn off iCloud syncing of the items you are syncing via iTunes. Otherwise you will likely have duplicates (aka 'a mess').

How to turn off iCloud syncing with Outlook: http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2011/11/remove-icloud-calendar-from-outlook.htmlPublish Post

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Password not saving in Outlook

You won't like this answer, but it is likely the correct answer.

If Outlook all of a sudden keeps asking you for your password when automatically checking email (even though you checked 'save', nothing's changed, and it still keeps asking), it is likely because your ISP has an issue, and you will just need to wait it out and suffer through the Yes, Yes, Yes.

Eventually (it has taken a week sometimes for mine to work itself out, but generally only a day or two) it just starts working again without your doing anything.

If you really, really want to waste a LOT of time and muck around with something, you will find instructions on how to create/replace Outlook email profiles, change your registery, etc. etc., but trust me, it will work itself out. When this happens I just close Outlook more frequently until the ISP gets their act together.

For reference, mine was @yahoo.com, but it could be any.

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Remove iCloud Calendar from Outlook

This is how to remove the iCloud calendar from Outlook. You can still sync your contacts/calendar with your iPhone or iPad, you just want to do that within iTunes (very easy too). You can also continue to use iCloud to sync pictures you take on the go, etc (that's what I do).

First you'll need to uninstall iCloud from your machine (you'll re-install later below):

1. Close Outlook.

2. Go to Control Panel

3. Under Programs: Uninstall a Program

4. Double-click iCloud and select Remove

Now go back into Outlook, right click and delete the iCloud calendar.

Next you'll re-install iCloud:

Locate "iCloudSetup" (it's probably in your Download folder. If you don't have the program any longer, see further below), double-click and follow instructions to reinstall. Once installed, open and UN-CHECK the option to sync with Outlook.

Also, I would go into Settings, iCloud, and switch off everything that syncs with iCloud except for Photo Stream and Find My Ipad. All those other items you should sync through iTunes (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, etc.) - Otherwise you are ripe for a 3-way collision.

*To download iCloud again:

http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html - for Windows /PC

http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html - for MAC

To sync your iPad with Outlook: http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-sync-your-ipad-with-outlook.html

To turn on iCloud on your iPhone:
http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/

IMPORTANT NOTE: New photos you take will be automatically uploaded to your Photo Stream when you leave the Camera app and are connected to Wi-Fi. Photo Stream does not push photos over cellular connections.


On a PC, the default folder where pictures are installed is here: C:\Users\Apple\Pictures\Photo Stream\Uploads. You can change this location by visiting Photo Stream Options in the iCloud Control Panel for Windows.


The photos you upload to Photo Stream are stored in iCloud for 30 days to give your devices plenty of time to connect and download them.


Individual photos cannot be deleted from your Photo Stream. You can, however, delete all the photos in your Photo Stream by clicking the Reset Photo Stream button in your account at icloud.com. The Reset Photo Stream button will instantly delete all Photo Stream photos stored in iCloud, but it will not remove any Photo Stream photos that have already been pushed to your devices.


Source for the iCloud photo stream notes above: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486

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Easy Way to Delete all Contacts from iPhone at Once

This is my favorite way to fix my iPad or iPhone contacts when they get screwed up (duplicate contacts, etc.):

"...go to the Info tab in iTunes (when your iPhone is attached). Change the "Sync Contacts with" option to something else that has no contacts in it." e.g. a gmail account, yahoo acct, etc." Now sync. Afterwards you can change back to whatever you had before.

Source and thanks: How to delete all contacts from IPHONE at once | iPhone and iPad Forums

This usually happens if you are syncing your contacts to multiple sources. Pick just one. I picked Outlook for syncing contacts (and mostly only backup pictures taken on the iPhone to iCloud).

Now that you've done that, here's how to:

Remove iCloud Calendar from Outlook

How to sync your iPad with Outlook

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Outlook 2007 - My Settings

My favorite settings (and where to find the option):

Everything below starts within Outlook with Tools >

1. Options > Preferences > Email Options > "After moving or deleting an open item: Open the Next Item"

2. > Account Settings > Double-click an email address > More Settings > Advanced > Leave a copy of messages on the server.

3. > Options > Mail Setup Tab > Check box: Send immediately when connected.

4. > Options > Mail Setup Tab > Send/Receive button > Check: Schedule an automatic send/receive every 1 minute, and uncheck: Perform an automatic send/receive when exiting.

5. > Options > Mail Format tab > Stationery and Fonts button to Change email font to Automatic (default is light blue).

6. > Options > Spelling > Check: Always check spelling before sending

7. > Options > Other > Check: Empty the Deleted Items folder upon exiting

8. > Options > Other > Advanced Options &gt:

• Uncheck Warn before permanently deleting items
• Check Show Paste Options buttons
• Uncheck Sync RSS Feeds to the Common Feed List
• Startup in this folder: Inbox

9. > Options > Other > Reading Pane button:

• Uncheck Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane
• Uncheck Mark item as read when selection changes

And here's how to change the location of the Data Folder. You'll want to do this fist, directly after installing Outlook.

You'll need to do this whenever you re-image your machine (or get a new one) if you want to use your existing Personal Folders. You may want to create a backup or copy of your Personal Folders just in case, but this works great.

1. After initial install, close Outlook and go here to delete the newly created Personal Folders: c:\users\rls\appdata\local\microsoft\outlook (where 'rls' is your user name).
2. Open Outlook. It will prompt for Personal Folder location. Point to your Personal Folders. 

Version: Microsoft Outlook 2007

Outlook Email - Turn off Automatic Read when Selection Changes

From within Outlook, select

1. Tools
2. Options
3. Other
4. Reading Pane
5. Mark item as read when selection changes
6. Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane

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Receiving Duplicate Yahoo Emails in Outlook

If you have an alias (another email address) setup for your yahoo account, and leave your email on the server, you will get the email twice (once per each Alias). You'll need to configure the alias account so that it does not receive emails.

In Outlook 2007 and earlier:
Tools > Options > tab Mail Setup > Send /Receive button > Edit > select the alias account and uncheck Receive mail items.

How to Display Images in Outlook Email

In Outlook, go to Tools, Trust Center. Here you can select the default for whether or not you want pictures to download automatically in HTML email.

That's for Outlook 2007.

In Outlook 2003, it's something like Tools, Options, Security Tab.

If your Outlook email response became teeny-tiny, here's how to expand back to normal

Generally the zoom setting got changed somehow. Check it.

Outlook - Remove EM Address Suggestions

There's an error in one of the EM address suggestions that appear when I type a letter in the To: field. I consistently inadvertently mail to that incorrect address. How do I remove that EM address? Here's how:

Here’s how to delete individual suggested entries:

1- In the To line, type the first letter or first few letters of the entry you'd like to delete.
3- Use the down arrow on your keyboard to select the entry you'd like to delete.
4- Press the Delete key on your keyboard.

...gone!