Here are some of the best plugins for Microsoft Outlook, to improve it, to add functions and to integrate it with other services. Microsoft Outlook is the most used program as an email client and is included in the Office suite (the other famous one is Mozilla Thunderbird)
There are many extensions or plugins, so it is difficult to select them because some may be useful to one that another may consider superfluous.
In this list I have tried to insert the most popular and generic ones by referring to other articles already written or to your considerations, the citation of other important plugins.
As I often say back then, the best extensions for Microsoft Outlook are:
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1) InboxEx is a powerful free Outlook plugin that provides better search and other advanced options.
You can synchronize your calendar with Google Calendar to schedule meetings and calls.
2) Jello Dashboard (widget) is used to personalize the Outlook home page with a web widget.
Technically, Jello is not an add-on, but a set of JavaScript files contained in an HTML file so that you can use it in Outlook, without installing anything.
3) PrimoPDF or doPDF (print, pdf): even if Office 2007 contains support for PDF, this function is only available for Word, Excel and PowerPoint programs.
If you are using Outlook (any version) and want to archive some emails as PDF files, you need to download PrimoPDF.
It is a free, virtual PDF printer driver for Windows that can not only convert email and PDF documents, but also protect them with a password.
4) Microsoft Translator (translation) is the plugin for translating emails into a foreign language, in Italian, without ever leaving Microsoft Outlook.
It is possible to translate single words, sentences or even an entire mail using the Microsoft Translator plugin; to use it just select a text and choose "Translate" from the right click menu.
5) Sender Time Zone (utility) is used if friends, customers or work colleagues write from distant places in the world and have different time zones.
This shows the sender's local time and the difference between your time zone and the sender's time zone.
You can therefore plan, when to reply to your contacts or why keep sending emails is at odd hours.
6) Looken does a real-time search on what is stored in Outlook.
7) Outlook Sync was designed to synchronize Outlook folders between two computers.
The program works in a local area network and is particularly useful in the home or in small businesses.
8) Those who work with Microsoft Outlook also use the calendar function a lot, which allows you to schedule meetings, appointments and deadlines, receiving email alerts before reaching the date indicated.
The modern professional uses web applications such as Google Calendar because he always wants to have the work calendar available and accessible online from anywhere.
Those who are forced to work with Outlook in the office but want to use their electronic agenda from home or other places, can integrate the Google calendar with the Outlook calendar via the free Google Calendar Sync plugin.
The synchronization of events can be synchronized unilaterally or bidirectionally so as to always have the same display of events and deadlines.
9) Copernic Desktop Search is a desktop search program that also indexes Outlook email .
10) Outlook Attachment Reminder allows you to avoid sending messages without an attachment and becomes useful for not forgetting to send files together with the messages.
The program recognizes messages that should include attachments by showing a reminder.
11) OutlookStorageExportFolders creates a new PST file with all the elements saved in Microsoft Outlook so that it can be saved and exported or transferred to another computer
12) YouSendIt becomes very useful when you need to send large files through Outlook.
When you attach a file to Outlook e-mail, the file is uploaded to the servers and in the mail just indicate the link from which the recipient can download the file without the need for a registered account.
See here for other web services to send large files
13) Bananatag is used to receive confirmation of reading emails .
A white and invisible image is sent, included in an email, which allows the service to recognize when a message is opened (provided that the recipient's client is configured to view the images)
14) OutlookItemsCategorize is used to assign or remove specified categories for messages, contacts, appointments, tasks, notes and journal entries.
15) GcontactSync synchronizes the Gmail contacts with those of the Outlook address book.
16) Receive notifications from Facebook and Twitter on Microsoft Outlook
17) Sending private messages in CCN in the Mail
18) Duplicate Remover deletes emails and all contents stored in Microsoft Outlook which are duplicates and duplicates.
You must use it with caution in order not to delete similar things but it scans everything and highlights the double emails.
20) Important Mail is a plugin that installs as a free program and appears in Microsoft Outlook when you see the list of received messages.
It is used to receive a notification whenever a new message arrives which contains the word set in the plugin filter.
Easy to use and very flexible, it allows you to set any word as an alarm for notification.
21) Outlook Export is a free tool to export data from Microsoft Outlook to a CSV text file.
22) Outlook automatic configuration is a useful add-in to create e-mail accounts in Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail, simply by providing the e-mail address.
23) Reply All Reminder is a reminder that warns each time the reply button is pressed and there are more people indicated as recipients.
24) Task Workflow is an Outlook add-in to have new options for managing tasks and projects in an easy way.
25) TwinBox is Twitter in Outlook to store, manage and search for tweets as you do with Email.
26) Important Mail Alert will notify you every time you receive an important email that contains a certain word or specified text.
27) Attach Unlocker allows you to unlock and receive blocked attachments from Outlook by default (for example i .exe).
28) Bccthis is an extension, already abundantly described, to send private messages in CCN in emails sent to groups of people.
It thus allows you to hide extra words in the email by letting them read only to selected people.
