Time to time, when you send an email, you need to be sure that this email has been delivered to the recipient. In Outlook, you can ask for two different receipts: a delivery receipt and a read receipt.

By default, hyperlinks are opened by clicking with pressing or holding Ctrl, but you can turn off this function.

These five simple customizations of Microsoft Office Outlook mailbox view will save you a lot of time and improve the overall productivity.

E-mail communications is not plain text anymore and people want to send/receive well-designed email messages. There are many paid services that allow you to create a visually appealing e-mail template, but you can create it yourself using only Outlook.

Outlook can display either the number of unread emails or the total number of emails in a folder alongside the folder name.

This option controls which address book you see when you open the Address Book (via clicking Ctrl+Shift+B) and when you click the To, Cc, or Bcc buttons when composing e-mails.

This tip shows how to create and add custom holidays, for example, of your company to the Outlook calendar.

This tip shows how to add holidays of your country or any other country to the Outlook calendar. See other tip how to add custom holidays to the calendar.

By default, if Reading pane is opened, Outlook opens replies and forwards in the same window, but you can fix this behavior and open them in a new window.

Although Outlook automatically creates Data Files as needed when you add accounts, you might want to add your own Data Files (.pst - files) to a profile. For example, perhaps you use an Exchange Server account for your primary Outlook store, but want a set of personal folders to serve as an archive; or perhaps you have an Exchange Server account and are adding a POP3 account.