How to – Change default Contact Search scope in Outlook 2013

This week’s post is about Outlook (again). This tip was one hard to find information, because that information is simply nonexistent: nowhere will you find in Outlook 2013 settings to change its default contact search scope.

Help is here

But don’t worry, I finally figured it out. Microsoft Office devs sure are a lazy bunch, I can tell you that. In my Outlook, my contacts are sorted in different groups/folders. By default, when searching contacts, Outlook searches only in the CURRENT folder, thus omitting a lot of results, since in my case I also have contacts in other folders. It was really getting on my nerve: EVERY single time I searched a contact I had to change the search scope to All Contacts. After doing some research, I finally found how to change once and for all that pesky search scope to All Contacts by default.

Mailbox settings

Believe it or not, Outlook’s search settings are found in the Search tab of Outlook’s options. Now guess what? There are no settings for contact search; only for the mailbox. And that’s what the problem is all about: the mailbox search options are ALSO those of your contacts. No wonder you can’t find anything about it! Some say it’s obvious and makes sense since your outlook file (.pst) contains your e-mails AND your contacts. I’m sorry, but managing e-mails is different than managing contacts. Microsoft should’ve seperated the settings to behave independently of each other.

Anyway, simply put, changing your mailbox search settings also changes contact search settings.

Enjoy!

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Reference
-http://www.msoutlook.info/question/735

Outlook Tip – Speed up your workflow

Here’s a very simple tip that will help you save time, improve your health and make your workflow a lot more efficient.

Keyboard is da bomb

It’s simple! Use Outlook’s keyboard shortcuts to switch from your Inbox/Mail, Calendar, Contact/People and Tasks! It makes things faster, less mouse clicks (thus reducing chances of wrist pain/carpal tunnel problems) and greatly improves your workflow!

Ctrl+1 = Mail

Ctrl+2 = Calendar

Ctrl+3 = People

Ctrl+4 = Tasks

Ctrl+5 = Notes

Note that these shortcuts work in every Microsoft’s Office Outlook versions.

Enjoy!

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Microsoft Outlook – Extract and save all embedded images

Sometimes, you may receive an e-mail that contains embedded images that you want to save. It’s easy to right-click an image and save the image. But backgrounds? That’s impossible…

Since it’s impossible, here’s how:

STEPS

1. Open Outlook (duh) then open the e-mail.

2. File -> Save as – > choose “HTML (*.htm, *.html)“, then save it anywhere you want.

It will create an html file (the e-mail) AND a folder with every images your e-mail had. Open that file and copy the image(s) you want! When you’re done, simply trash everything (your e-mail is still in Outlook, so don’t worry, it’s not even linked).

EXTRA

If the picture you’re looking isn’t in the folder, it means it’s on the web. Simply open the HTML in your browser (Firefox), open AdBlock, find the picture you want and save it!

Enjoy!

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