This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:
Quick Tips for week 8
This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:
Export Outlook Notes to OneNote
The Notes section of Outlook has the “deprecated” status. The envisioned replacement for this Outlook feature is OneNote.
This is a great alternative but unfortunately, there is no convenient way to get all your Outlook Notes into OneNote.
While you could print all your Outlook Notes to OneNote, they will end up as images and you’ll have to rely on OneNote’s text recognition to search through them or to convert them back to text-based notes.
This guide offers an alternative solution to quickly get all your Outlook Notes into OneNote via the me@onenote.com service. Each note will then be added as a single OneNote page with all the text fully intact.
Quick Tips for week 7
This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:
Outlook 2013 Update for February 2015
A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2013. This is a non-security update which contains 15 improvements and fixes.
Most notable new changes and fixes are:
- Improves user experience on slate or tablet devices as email items open by using the most recent window size and position.
- This update enables copy-protection for the Facebook contacts folder in Outlook 2013 so that it integrates better with the Facebook contacts sync feature of Office 365.
- When you search items in the current mailbox for an IMAP email account in Outlook 2013, you just receive the “Searching…” message, but no search result is returned.
View: Download information for KB2956087
Note: This update is also offered via Microsoft Update or already installed automatically for you when Microsoft Update is configured to also update other Microsoft applications.
Office 365 subscribers can install this update manually via the Update Now button or wait for the automatic update. This update is included in version: 15.0.4693.1001.
Outlook 2010 Update for February 2015
A Rollup Update has been released for Outlook 2010. This is a non-security update which contains 8 improvements and fixes.
Most notable new changes and fixes are:
- Outlook will not attempt to use the MAPI over HTTP protocol on a Windows XP-based computer as this is not supported by Windows XP.
- RTF-formatted Outlook templates (oft-files) may be opened in HTML format when connecting to an Exchange 2010 mailbox in online mode.
- Nonrecurring calendar appointments that are created in Outlook Web App (OWA) cannot be auto-archived.
View: Download information for KB2956128
Note: This update is also offered via Microsoft Update or already installed automatically for you when Microsoft Update is configured to also update other Microsoft applications.
Quick Tips for week 6
This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:
Quick Tips for week 5
This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:
Quick Tips for week 4
This week’s new and updated Quick Tips highlights from HowTo-Outlook’s Q&A blog MSOutlook.info:
Updated Outlook Holiday (.hol) file
This standalone download contains the most recent holiday definitions for Outlook.
The download title specifically mentions Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 (as they contain this exact same hol-file) but you’ll find it also works with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 (msi).
This download can’t be used with Microsoft 365 and Click-to-Run installations of Office but these versions already have the latest holiday definition file applied (currently up to 2026).
For details about how to use this hol-file see: Holiday updates for the Outlook Calendar.
Download: Updated Outlook Holiday (.hol) file for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010
Things to note
While this is the latest standalone hol-file published by Microsoft, it is getting outdated.
Although this definition file is available in various languages and contains holidays for 88 countries up to the year 2028, many only go up to 2020.
Outlook 2013 contains holidays up to 2022 and Outlook 2016, 2019 and Microsoft 365 up to 2026.
Installing the latest updates for Outlook may contain a more up-to-date hol-file as well. How to get these updated definitions into your Calendar is discussed in: Holiday updates for the Outlook Calendar.
The guide mentioned above also provides a standalone hol-file with all holidays up to 2026 (similar to Microsoft 365) that can be used with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016 (MSI) as well.
Download: holidays.zip (by MSOutlook.info)