Disable Message Preview which shows the first lines of your email in Outlook 2013

When we look at the look and feel changes introduced in the Outlook 2013 edition, the message preview feature makes a distinct impression. It essentially showcases initial one or two lines from the email text in the Inbox message list. This change has been introduced with the idea of helping you glance through the emails and focus on the important ones when you are short in time. While the feature has been widely appreciated by many, some of us may have some privacy concerns around it. Normally...

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Tips to Resolve a Secure Connect Failure Error in Ms Outlook

One of the drawbacks of living in a world dominated by cyber threats is the fact that we end up enforcing security measures that do more harm than good. One such case is the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption while sending emails through the Outlook email client. While SSL is a must for accessing many websites that perform banking operations, using the encryption standard in emails is an overkill. In fact many ISPs do not support it and while using the same in Outlook you may receive...

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Dealing with emails from Multiple Client Projects in Ms Outlook – Practical Tips

In case you are handling several projects in your office, it is very likely that you would receive numerous emails related to these projects in your mailbox. Over a period of time it becomes increasingly difficult for you to track the conversations that you had related to an individual project. However with Outlook it is easily possible to organize your conversations and file the emails in a neat manner. Let’s look at some practical tips to achieve the same.     Create...

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