By the way, I love the ability to customize my ribbon settings, export the configuration and then import it on other computers.įor the past several weeks the automatic Send/Receive feature in Outlook stopped working. Interestingly, starting with Office 2007, you can export and import the ribbon configuration in most of the Office applications, including Outlook but exporting and importing the e-mail account settings is not an option.

I was really hoping Outlook developers will add a backup functionality but they didn’t. Over the years, I have asked Microsoft experts, fellow instructors, Outlook experts, and searched the Internet. I have been searching for a solution for a long time. Every time a new version of Outlook comes out, or I have to create an Outlook profile on a different computer, I have to start from scratch and add all these accounts manually. Due to the nature of my business as an instructor and consultant, I manage several networks and for various reasons I have close to 50 accounts (mostly POP3) that I use in my Outlook profile. It doesn’t allow you to export Outlook settings, such as all the POP3 and IMAP accounts that you have configured. The export option is used to either export RSS feeds, or export messages in a folder. In Outlook there is an Export option but it is used for a different purpose. For the most part they do, but in case of Microsoft Outlook they never added that functionality, despite the fact that this is a feature that is desperately needed. Unfortunately, that is not always the case. You would imagine that when the developers develop a software product they would consider the ability to export (backup) configuration settings as one of the most basic features of the software. One thing that has been missing from Microsoft Outlook is the ability to Import/Export settings.

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