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How to clean duplicate messages out of the mailbox even if they are not really duplicates

The reasons for duplicated messages appearing in Outlook mailbox vary. They can be caused by incorrect functioning or configuration of the main synchronization software; problems with mail server or mail client (for example, if the message copies are left on the server and you have to re-create an account in Outlook); or just by human error when doing a copy-paste of a number of selected messages; etc. Any of these events can leave you with numerous duplicates and you will want to eliminate them. This task is easy, just take Duplicate Email Remover and rid all your mail folders from duplicated messages and posts even if the source message and duplicate are located in different folders.

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What is Mail Merge in Outlook and how to do Mail Merge better

In 2001 Microsoft introduced, among many other things, an invaluable productivity improvement to its Office suite (Microsoft Office 2002 at the time), that would raise the industry standard for professionals involved with a job that requires frequent email correspondence with a large client base for many years to come. Microsoft named its new feature “Mail Merge” – a welcome addition to the Microsoft Word application, which would allow a user to take an entirely different approach to communicating across a broad client base.

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Mail merge with attachments in Outlook

Updated on June 10, 2024

Learn how to perform a mail merge with attachments in Outlook:

Native mail merge with attachments in Outlook

If you work in Microsoft Office and sometimes need to send out large, personalized mailings, you probably know that the basic package provides the essential means to achieve this task. The Mail Merge feature, introduced in Word 2002, has proven to be an invaluable tool for performing this type of business correspondence for a stupendous number of people.

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Personalized mailing from Outlook

Composing a personalized email in Outlook has always been one of the most effective and refined ways of conducting daily business with a large number of email recipients. This article will show you how to send personalized mail in Outlook using a couple of handy add-ins for the Microsoft Office suite.

Outlook’s personalized messages allow you to have a single task-specific email message or a text document which can be sent to any number of recipients and contain individual details in any field of the resulting message. This is called “personalized email message” or “personalized mass mailing” in Outlook’s context.

A basic example for sending personalized mass mail in Outlook would be any scenario involving a large number of known recipients who are going to receive roughly the same letter. Job-hunting candidates, corporate clientele, staff members, school reunion participants, marriage guests – all these people obviously have different first and last names, home addresses and other individual information.

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Remove duplicate emails in Outlook with Duplicate Email Remover: step-by-step guide

If you use an email client, even an efficient one like Microsoft Office Outlook, you may meet with an annoying issue with dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of duplicate emails. There are a lot of possible reasons for duplicate emails to appear in Outlook: mail server errors, issues with synchronization with the server, downloading old mail to the new version of Microsoft Office Outlook; it is also possible that Outlook duplicates emails because of its own rules, or even your antivirus tool may duplicate emails.

But whatever the cause, duplicated messages make our work with email complicated, and we often are in great need of finding a way to make Outlook remove duplicate emails. The only method to eliminate duplicate email that Outlook offers itself is manual deletion. That can take hours of tedious and painful sitting at the computer – hours which could be spend doing work or meeting with friends and enjoying our hobbies…

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Mailing with Outlook: How to hide mail recipients

There are situations that require to hide addresses in Outlook from recipients, such as performing a large mailing. If you are composing some type of personalized business correspondence, for instance, hiding recipients in Outlook will allow for a more delicate, proficient and effective approach.

Let us imagine that one has to send reminders each month to all staff members: each staff member will receive a letter with the reminder text in this case, but each recipient will be able to see a lot of unrelated email addresses, and some recipients may even be uncomfortable with their email addresses visible to others, not counting the fact that an obviously automated and impersonal email message receives less attention than a personalized one. With this in mind, a personalized letter with hidden list of recipients is less likely to be ignored by its addressee and is, generally, a more appealing and professional way of reaching out to the staff members or clients.

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