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Sharing Distribution Lists

In Outlook 2016 you wouldn't find a distribution list because it's called now Contact Groups, for more details see Sharing Contact Groups in Outlook.

Read and Unread email messages

When you open an e-mail, it automatically is marked as read. However, if you are using the Reading Pane to view messages instead of opening them, you have a number of possible options for marking e-mails as being read.

Hide a note's time stamp information

In Outlook 2016 Options, the options Notes and Journal is removed. New notes have a default color of yellow, default size of medium, default font of 11 point Calibri, and display the date and time that the note was last modified.
These options are not read and cannot be changed from any preferences or registry keys.

Change the color of a note

In Outlook 2016 Options, the options Notes and Journal is removed. New notes have a default color of yellow, default size of medium, default font of 11 point Calibri, and display the date and time that the note was last modified.
These options are not read and cannot be changed from any preferences or registry keys.

Adding commands to the Quick Access Toolbar

Suppose you'd like to add a couple more commands to the Quick Access toolbar. Also, say you want to work with every e-mail in new window. You can add the Open in New Window button to the Quick Access toolbar.

Turn off rules in Outlook

To turn on/off a rule, follow next steps:

Shortcuts for Calendar

Outlook proposes next shortcut keys for easy and quickly work with Calendar:

How to automatically and manually archive emails in Outlook

If your Microsoft Exchange account has strict size limits, it fills very quickly by replies and forwards of emails with attachments. When your Outlook mailbox fills up, you cannot receive new emails without removing old ones. To prevent your inbox from filling up and still keep the conversation's history, you can move old items to a separate Outlook Data File (an archive.pst). You can archive emails manually or use the AutoArchive feature in Outlook that moves old entities to an archive automatically. You can customize the AutoArchive schedule and behavior for a more comfortable Outlook experience.

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.

Using templates to facilitate more versatile E-mail Distribution

If you want to construct a more complicated distribution list, with some recipients on the To field, some recipients on the Cc field, and yet more recipients on the Bcc field, you have to use a message template where you explicitly assign recipients to each field.