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Outlook Icon on Taskbar or Notification area (System Tray)

The default settings minimize Outlook to the Taskbar, but you can make settings to minimize it to the Tray.

Search Folders

Search Folders let you to access the information in your mailbox more quickly, because, unlike the ordinal folders, they do not dictate that message should belong to a single folder.

Attaching Business Cards to all outgoing messages

In some situation you may want to send your vCard in every message. This lets recipients enter the information in their address book quickly and without errors.

Attaching a Business Card to a message

With Outlook, you can send a copy of a contact item in vCard format, a standard format for exchanging contact information. This allows the recipient to import the contact data into a contact management program, assuming that the recipient's program supports the vCard standard (as most do).

Reply and forward options

For replies and forwarded messages, you can choose to attach the original text, to include and indent the text, or to add a prefix to each line of the original message or reply without including the original text.

Set default fonts for emails in Outlook for Windows

Outlook enables you to specify default fonts to use for different situations when dealing with e-mail. Additionally you can individually configure default font settings for composing new e-mail and replying and forwarding.

Creating Your Own Menu

Creating custom menus in Outlook is a funny feature you can use to create groups of the options that you use most often, and then plug them into the menu you name and use yourself.

How to import a Distribution List sent you as an attachment

In Outlook 2010 you wouldn't find a distribution list because it's called now Contact Groups, for more details see How to import a Contact Group sent you as an attachment.

Sharing contact groups in Outlook

You can easily share your Contact Groups by attaching them to e-mail. There are several ways of attaching Contact Groups.

Sharing Distribution Lists

In Outlook 2010 you wouldn't find a distribution list because it's called now Contact Groups, for more details see Sharing Contact Groups.