Show week numbers in Outlook

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Manuals showing how to enable week numbers in Outlook.

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Configure Outlook with an M365 account

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Manuals that describe how to set up email in Outlook on different operating systems/devices.

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Control account settings in Outlook for Mac

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Occasionally, incorrect information is saved in the email account for Outlook. You can check that the information is correct, and if you find something that is incorrect you can edit or update the information.

  1. Start Outlook and go to Preferences.
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  2. Click on Account
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  3. Make sure that you have entered the correct information as shown below.
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Send from alias in your e-mail in Microsoft 365

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  1. Create new mail
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  2. Choose Options.
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  3. Choose Show from, this field is then added.
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  4. Click on From in the mail.If it is your first time doing this, you need to state you student e-mail adress. Choose From, and then choose another e-mail adress and state your studentmail in the format: umuid@student.umu.se.Next time the mail adress is going to be avaliable as an option when clicking on From.
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Create a response template with the help of quick parts in Outlook

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In this guide we describe how to create response templates with the help of Quick Parts in Outlook, that can be inserted directly into your emails.

  1. Create a new email. You do this by choosing New Email in your inbox.
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  2. Write your email as usual.
  3. Mark the text in the email that you want to use in your response template.
  4. Go to Insert in the upper menu bar, and then click on Quick Parts.
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  5. When you have chosen Quick Parts, you then click on Save selection to Quick Part gallery…
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  6. Now you choose a name for your response template. This is the name you use later, when using your response template. Leave the remaining boxes unchanged.
  7. Click OK when you have chosen your name.
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  8. Now your have created your response template, and it is ready to be used.

To use your response template, you write the name of the template in the email and click enter to insert your respond, or go to Quick Parts and insert your template from there.

Create a vote in your e-mail in Outlook with Microsoft Forms

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In this guide we describe, with the help of Forms, how to create a vote directly in you email from Outlook. Note that this function is not available until you have moved your email to Microsoft 365. This is completed during fall 2022.

  1. Start by creating a new e-mail. You do this by clicking on New Email.
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  2. Write you email as usual.
  3. Go to Insert, and then choose Poll.
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  4. To the right in your window, a field is now inserted where you write your question, and the options the receiver can choose between. Choose Multiple answers if they are allowed to choose multiple options.
  5. When you are happy with your question, you click on Next.
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  6. In this step you see how the vote will look in the email. If you are ready, you choose Add to email. If you want to make changes, choose Edit.
    Image showing how it looks when previewing your question
  7. When you have added the vote to the email, the question, and a link to the form is going to show. Now you can send your vote in the email.
  8. When the receiver has gotten your email, they can answer the question directly in the email. The result can easily be found with your other forms in Microsoft Forms (forms.office.com) or directly in Outlook if you put yourself as a copy. Then choose View result.
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Outlook 365 email forwarding

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Guides users on how to forward emails from Outlook 365.

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Email for students FAQ

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An FAQ about the student email.

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Change primary e-mail for you who are a student

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As Umeå University has switched to the new Ladok, it may be that the e-mail address you have used for your studies here is no longer the same as in Ladok. This may affect the ability to receive notifications from Canvas, Cambro or Moodle. Therefore, you need to log in and check your email address.

There are two ways.

Option 1

Go to https://www.umu.se/en/student/my-settings/ Requires login with Umu ID.

Option 2

Step 1

Go to https://www.student.ladok.se/student/loggain and click the Access through your institution button

Step 2

Type Umu in the Search field and Umea University is going to show up as below, click on the result.

Step 3

You will be redirected to the Umeå University login page.
Login with you UMU-id and Password

Step 4

Click on My pages in the menu to the right.

Step 5

Click on the Change contact details button.

Step 6

Add your private/personal e-mail address to the field E-mail (1) and click Save (2).

After you’ve done this it can take up to 15 min before all systems has been updated with you new e-mail address.