What is a transparent box before Outlook 2010 contact addresses?

Fault symptom:

When using Outlook 2010, we will find a small box in front of the address after entering the contact address.

Cause analysis:

In fact, the appearance of this small box does not affect the normal sending and receiving of emails, but because of a special function of Outlook: display the status of online contacts. If you have a local Exchange Server, the system automatically checks the online status of contacts after you type an added contact address in Outlook in the address bar, in addition, the address of the recipient contact is displayed in front of the address in a small box of different colors.

You can manually check whether the box appears. The procedure is simple.

Solution:

Open Outlook 2010, click "file" in the upper left corner, and then click "options" in the directory ".

 

 

Click"Contact", On the right,"Online Status and photo"SelectShow online status next to name"Check box, so that when we enter the contact address in the address bar, the box will appear! In addition, if you want to prevent the appearance of a small box, deselect the"Show online status next to name"Check box!