Category: Outlook

So this has perplexed me for some time but not enough for me to dig deep into finding a solution, until now.

Today I added a 5th email account to Outlook and decided it was time to solve this problem.

Up until now I have all my “inboxes” under my favorites so that I don’t have to scroll all the way to the bottom of my side panel to see what I have for new emails.

However over the past few months Outlook seems to no longer show the unread count (or bold) for the favorites folder. If I scroll to the bottom the inbox shows the count but what good is having a favorites section if you still have to scroll down.

I know that Outlook is downloading new messages in the background, but the new message count is not automatically updated in the folders under Favorites.

So the search began for a fix. I tried various fixes recommend on a number of support forums and none seemed to work. Than I stumbled across a combination solution which has finally resolved the issue.

One way is to change the startup page to the Outlook Today page. That seemed to refresh the folders but  I really just want to open Outlook to view my email, not the Outlook today screen.

Instead I did this:

• Open Outlook Today by clicking on the account name for your default Outlook data file (often the first one in the folder list)
• Click “Customize Outlook Today” in the upper right.
• On the options screen, select “Choose Folders”, then select the Inbox under each IMAP account. Deselect anything that isn’t relevant.

This appears to cause the Favorites folders to “refresh” when Outlook starts up, making them show the number of unread messages.

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Follow the details below to add an email signature to Outlook

Open a new email

Select Insert Tab

Select Signature from the drop down menu

Create New Signature

Select the insert image icon

Select Image from your computer and click insert

Now set the image as a link by selecting the image and clicking the link icon

Enter the URL you want to link to

Select OK > Choose which signature you want for the default and now every time you open a new email your default signature will be added. You can create multiple signature to use for various email types and insert them while creating a new email by selecting signatures again.

Microsoft Outlook doesn’t provide an easy way for users to download images that may be embedded inside an email. You can right-click an image in Outlook and copy it to the clipboard but there’s no option to you save that picture to a  folder or on your desktop which can be a bit frustrating at times.

Here are some work-arounds:

Option 1: You can copy the image to the clipboard (Control+C) and paste it (Control + V) into a photo editing tool like MS Paint or Adobe Photoshop.

Option 2 Outlook 2010: Open the email message and save it as an HTML file.

(File > Save As > Web page .html) See screen shot below– this will save all the embedded pictures in one folder.

Save it to your desktop or a local folder.

Go to the desktop and open the folder that was created when you saved the files.

In the folder there will be some files for the email message but the ones you are looking for are named sequentially and end in .jpg

And that’s it. You have downloaded your images from an Outlook Email Message.

Option 3 for Outlook 2007: Open the e-mail message and under the Message tab, select Other Actions > View in Browser. This would open your email inside the default web browser as a regular HTML web page and you can right-click to save an embedded picture in whatever folder you want.