Outlook uses Word as the HTML rendering engine and although many features have been added over the years and marketers have compensated for these limitations, it could still sometimes end up in a malformed display of the email message.
In short; The Word HTML rendering engine doesn’t provide support for things like animated gifs (unless you are using Outlook as part of a Microsoft 365 subscription), advanced css formatting and HTML forms, accessibility and more.
To overcome this, there is the “View in Browser” command in Outlook but that still opens the message in the ancient Internet Explorer.
This guide explains how you can render the message in a browser of your choice like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Firefox by a click of a button.
An additional benefit of opening the message in an Internet browser is that you have the printing options of the browser available to you and therefore also the option to only print your selection.
The Folder Pane in Outlook is the main navigation method between your mailboxes, folders and the separate modules such as Mail, Calendar and Contacts.
Creating contacts is easy and before you know it, you’ve got several dozen or even hundreds of them in your Contacts folder. It is very likely that some of them hold relations with one another like the same company or the same address.
The New Mail Desktop Alert is a handy pop-up alert for new emails. However, an often heard complaint is that it goes away too quickly.
Although the Import and Export wizard allows you to export to an Excel spreadsheet, the Wizard doesn’t allow you to export all the fields and filtering the mapped fields is a cumbersome process as well.
Seeing messages being sent or are you getting sending errors without something in the Outbox?
Ever had the feeling that the option you need the most is just too far down all sorts of menus? Well then customizing the Toolbar is probably the solution for you.
Outlook comes with lots of command line switches and parameters which can be very handy for troubleshooting and (limited) automation.
