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The InfoBar is a banner near the top of the Reading pane or an open message, contact, appointment, or task. It gives you status information about the item. It also allows you to take actions related to the item by clicking the bar. For example, if the message "You replied..." appears, clicking the bar lets you search for all related messages.
InfoBar messages.
As Outlook service packs have come along, the number and variety of messages that can appear in this area has grown. Here are some of the common or particularly puzzling InfoBar messages, what they mean, and what you can do if you see them:- Click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlook prevented automatic download of some pictures in this message.
When you look at the item, it contains boxes with some text and a red X in place of the pictures that were included in the original message. Click the InfoBar to get a set of options related to displaying the pictures and changing how Outlook handles pictures in the future.
- Click here to turn on links. To help protect your security, links are turned off in this message.
The links in the item are there, but they do not work. I frequently find myself clicking a link in a message, then snarling at my "slow" computer before realizing that Outlook has turned off the links. Click the InfoBar to turn on the links in the message.
- Do Not Forward - (recipients can read this message, but cannot forward, print, or copy content)Permission granted by: john_doe@xyz.com
If IRM (Information Rights Management) is in effect on your computer, you may see this message. It indicates that the item in question is under IRM control, and that you cannot do anything with the item except read it. The email address of the person who granted you permission to view the content (john_doe@xyz.com in this example) is listed so you can contact them if necessary. - Extra line breaks in this message were removed.
Outlook has removed what it considers to be extra line breaks (carriage returns for those of us who still remember the phrase) in the message. This may make the message easier to read--or harder to read, depending on the particular message. Click the InfoBar to restore the line breaks Outlook has removed.
- This message has extra line breaks.
If you restored the "extra" line breaks that Outlook removed from a message, this message will be visible. Click the InfoBar to hide the "extra" line breaks.
- This message was converted to plain text.
Outlook has converted this message, which arrived in HTML format, to text format. It will commonly do this with messages that it believes are junk mail, to help protect you against the possible dnagers lurking in an HTML-formatted message. Click the InfoBar to convert this message back to HTML format if you want to reactivate its "potentially-dangerous" HTML content.
- This message will be sent via...
Shows which account Outlook will use to send a message. Clicking the bar doesn't change this. To change the account Outlook will use, you must click the Accounts button in the message and select the new account from the menu that appears.
- You replied on...
Indicates that you have replied to this message, and when you did so. Click the InfoBar for the option to see all related messages (the reply you sent and any others in the same message thread).
While this wasn't an exhaustive list of all the possible messages, these are some of the messages you're most likely to see or be puzzled by. From here you can:
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