Important: When you close your Microsoft account, your email and contacts are deleted from our servers and can't be recovered.If you use your Microsoft account with Xbox, Skype, OneDrive, or other Microsoft services, you'll no longer be able to access those services.

Safe mode starts Windows with a minimal set of drivers and services to help troubleshoot issues. If a problem doesn't reappear when you start your PC in safe mode, you can eliminate the default settings and basic device drivers and services as possible causes.

Designed by media lovers for media lovers. Windows Media Player 12—available as part of Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10*—plays more music and video than ever, including Flip Video and unprotected songs from your iTunes library!

Compress the file. When you compress, or zip, your file, it decreases its size, and it might decrease it enough to fit within the Outlook size limits for attachments.The following articles describe how to compress and extract files for different Windows operating systems.

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Using Authenticator as a way to sign in. If you have turned on passwordless, two-step, or multi-factor authentication for your account, use the following steps to sign-in:

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Troubleshooting The people selection menus in Meeting options don't show invitees I've added to an occurrence of a meeting series. In this scenario, you will need to invite people to the meeting series, rather than to the meeting occurrence.

Note: Exporting and importing a mailbox using a .pst file isn't supported in new Outlook at this time. To export a mailbox, you need to use the desktop version of Outlook (also known as classic Outlook) following the steps below.Classic Outlook is included with Microsoft 365 subscriptions that include desktop apps such as Microsoft 365 Personal or Family or Microsoft 365 Business Standard, and ...

Data sources. Your first step in setting up a mail merge is to pick the source of data you'll use for the personalized information. Excel spreadsheets and Outlook contact lists are the most common data sources, but if you don't yet have a data source, you can type it up in Word, as part of the mail merge process.