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Transparency Color problem and fix for Microsoft Office.Make a transparent shape to mask a photo in Word, PowerPoint and more.Handy if you want to browse or do other things on the Internet without Outlook using up limited bandwidth. This will totally disconnect Outlook from the mail connections. Work OfflineĪnother useful tool in slow connection situations is ‘Work Offline’. while more headers are arriving – there’s no need to wait for Outlook to finish getting all the headers.

You can start marking to download, deleting etc. Or you can right-click on a message and choose ‘Mark to Download’. This can be done for the current folder only or all folders. Process Marked Headers – means to connect with the server and download marked messages.

Unmark for Download (to change your mind) On the Send/Receive tab there are choices to: Or you can mark messages for download when you’re next connected to the mail server. There’s a few options for downloading the rest of a message.ĭownload immediately by choosing ‘Download the rest of this message now’ from the body of the message. Better for you to choose what’s suitable. We’ve been on some damn slow links and this option hasn’t kicked in. On Slow Connections Download Only Headers – it’s unclear what Outlook considers a ‘slow connection’. Depending on the speed of the connection, this gives you a chance to delete any messages (as headers) before the entire message is downloaded.ĭownload Headers – only the message headers are downloaded. On the Send/Receive tab there’s the Download Preferences options.ĭownload Full Items – the default, the entire message is downloaded immediately.ĭownload Headers and then Full Items – first Outlook grabs all the message headers, then it downloads the rest of the content in each message. Aside from blocking the download of large messages, Outlook has another way to reduce its downloads.

Apple mail download headers only