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How to change send and receive emails settings in Outlook

August 13, 2015 By Ravi Shankar 32 Comments

Microsoft Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010 has option to automatically send or receive emails at a specified time interval. It also provides option to change this time period using the Send/Receive settings. List below are the steps to change send and receive email settings in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010.

Change send and receive email settings in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Click on the File menu –> Options

Navigate to Advanced tab and scrolled down to Send and receive section. Then click on the Send/Receive button.

How to hide send and receive progress dialog in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

Using the Schedule an automatic send/receive every minutes field you can specify the time period at which the automatic send/receive emails needs to be done. The default value for this is 30 minutes.

Outlook 2010 displays a send and receive dialog box showing the progress of mails received and sent from the email Accounts. If you have configured more than one email accounts in Outlook then the time taken to complete Send/Receive will be more and the progress dialog will be displayed till the process is completed. Outlook provides allows users to hide the Send/Receive Progress. If you want to hide the dialog box then tick the check box with label as Don’t show this dialog box during Send/Receive.

Similarly if you want to turn on the display of progress message back then navigate to Send / Receive menu option and click the Show Progress option available under the Download section.

Change receive emails time for single mail account in Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2010

When you have more than one email account configured in Outlook 2010 and you want to specify a different send and receive time for a single account then you can follow the below mentioned steps.

Click the Send / Receive menu and navigate to Send & Receive section. Select Define Send/Receive Groups from the Send/Receive Groups menu list.

In the Send/Receive Groups window, you can see the default time specified in “Schedule an automatic send/receive” option for All Accounts.

Now click the New button and specify a name for the group. In the below example, I want to specify a change the send and receive time for my Yahoo account and I have named the group as Yahoo.

Then select the Account (Yahoo) in the Account section and click the Ok button.

Now change the value for “Schedule an automatic send/receive every” option for the Yahoo group and click the Close button.

Also See: How to quickly block a sender in Outlook

How to remove automatic hyperlink in Gmail Signature

December 12, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

In Gmail, any websites addresses in signature are automatically converted in to hyperlinks. For example, if you have added signature with web address and when you do a compose new message, it will automatically display the web address as hyperlink.

There is no settings that is currently available in Gmail that would turn off these hyperlinks. But there is a work around which can be done for each individual email message.

Clicking the Compose Mail button would open a new compose mail window populated with signature. Now click the Pain Text option above the message text area to remove the hyperlink. In case if you plan to use other formatting option for writing the email then click the Rich formatting option. By this way you can manually remove the hyperlink from the web address in Gmail.

Auto Replace feature in Google Docs

August 30, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

This tutorial talks about the Auto Replace feature available in Google Docs. Using this feature, Google Docs users can add abbreviation and their corresponding words. For example, if you want to the entry da to be replaced with digianswers then you can do the following

Click the Tools menu and select Preferences from the displayed menu list.

In the Preferences Window, make sure to mark the check box with label as Automatic substitution.

And type “da” in Replace text box and the corresponding entry “digitalanswers” in With text box. Click OK button which is available at the bottom of the Preferences window to save the changes. Now when you type “da” in the document, it would be replaced with “digitalanswers”

Turn off auto detect links in Google Docs

August 9, 2011 By Ravi Shankar Leave a Comment

Google Docs has a feature that can automatically detect any links and apply the style accordingly. For example if you have type a text as http://digianswers.com in a Google Docs document then it would consider this as a hyperlink

But if you do not want the hyperlink then highlight the link and click on the remove link.

And if you want to permanently turn off the auto detection of links then click on the Tools menu and select Preferences from the list of available menus.

In the Preferences window, un mark the check box with label as Automatically detect links and click on the Ok button available at the bottom of the preferences window.

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