Provide an option to make text of Outlook folders containing Unread Items Bold in Microsoft Outlook 2016
Provide an option to make text of Outlook folders containing Unread Items Bold in Microsoft Outlook 2016 to set it apart or easy to distinguish from other folders would be beneficial.
Jakob Steensen
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Anonymous
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Microsoft force feeding us again with what they think we want
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richjermw@hotmail.com
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I have used folders marked as bold for a long time on previous versions of Outlook, but Outlook ver 2016 does not have this function any more. This has been a very useful feature, and I would like it back again, and also to change the font lettering size for folder names. I thought when a product was upgraded it usually had improvements, not down graded.
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Craig
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If multiple email addresses configured the only way to know there is new mail is with a sound or envelope on task bar. Then manually have to go through the mailboxes to get to the new mail that arrived. Solution, when a new mail arrives at a mailbox, have the mailbox (in favourites) highlighted somehow or change the colour of the mail count. This would then be easy to visually know what mailbox received the new mail. Once read, then resort back to normal colour scheme.
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Anonymous
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I have just upgraded from Outlook 2010 to 2016 and the removal of this feature was the most obvious real deficiency. I have ten email accounts each with many subfolders, and rules set up to segregate incoming email into them. I now have to scan each folder looking for new items; previously any folder with a new item was clearly obvious but now it isn't. It it a trivial job for the development team to put it back - perhaps with a user-definable colour set in Folder Options to distinguish it from the bold setting for the 'currently selected folder'
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Anonymous
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If a user has many emails in a folder, and more than just a few emails into each folders, one cannot keep track of the number of new emails against each folder on the navigation (to the right). So the folder with new emails can be highlighted to let the user know there is a new email in the folder. It would be a lot easier to just look at the navigation and know whether the folder received a new mail since last opened. Once opened the folder can be marked read, still showing the number of unread emails against the folder.
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Hue Holleran
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Which moron removed this?
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Anonymous
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This "improvement" to not have bold folders to signal unread mail is terrible. Reverse it! Up with BOLD FOLDERS WITH UNREAD MAIL! Down with Segoe font and custom blue color!
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Leanne
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Please hurry up and re-install this feature! It was there until the latest update! It's a nightmare not having this feature available.
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Anonymous
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When users have a lot of mailboxes some might like to keep the collapsed to keep them tidy but in the collapsed view you cannot see if you have any new mails. Can an indication be added when in the collapsed view?
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Jonatan
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Bring back bold notifications on the folder pane, not only for the individual folders but also for parent folder so that we can actually organize the emails properly.
Also add the option to colorize the numbers/text on the folders containing unread email so that they stand out better.
While you're at it, please add some kind of skin so that the icons are more clear and colour-coded as they used to be.
Upgraded from Office 2007 to Office 365 only 6 hours ago and already hating it.
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Anonymous
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Still not an option .... unbelivable
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Leo Graper
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Please restore this feature asap and while you are at it also make the new message count editable to another color, this is terrible compared to the good old 2007 version...
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William
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... you mean like Outlook 2010? Crazy that it's a decade later and they made Outlook worse in that time, not better.
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Jack
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I absolutely HATE the Outlook 365 user interface. If work didn't require that I use this app I would dump it immediately. The older Outlook 2010 was a much better looking and easier application to work with. Not sure why Microsoft would take a huge leap backwards with user productivity.
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Anonymous
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Outlook used to display the names of folders with unread content with a bold font. That feature was very helpful. It's been removed with no option for making it something users can control. That folder names with unread content would no longer show a bold name was not pointed out very well. I "missed" some important emails because I did not see -- by watching the folder name, which has worked for years -- in bold.
Additionally, the message count didn't update (from 0) until I selected the folder. That really hung me out.
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Atsuhiro Ichikawa
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Indicate total unread email number beside each folder including each sub-folder's.
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Roseann Deal
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When you open an email it seems the ones next to it lose their boldness. Can you keep the bold until the email is actually opened?
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Anon
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What is wrong with Microsoft? They always seem to drop very useful and practical ideas without consultation, and this is one of them. When not have bold? Why not be able to flag or colour code folders for any reason you choose? Get a grip MS so that users can have their day to day life on a PC easier. Reinstate this ability.
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Anonymous
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Выделение папки жирным цветом
Folder highlighted in bold
Можно ли сделать так, чтобы когда письмо попадет в папку (после работы мастера правил), жирным цветом подсвечивалось название этой папки полностью, а не только появилась цифра, которая показывает сколько не прочитанных писем в папке?
Is it possible to make it so that when the letter falls into the folder (after the rule wizard), the name of this folder is highlighted in bold, and not only a figure appears that shows how many letters have not been read in the folder?
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Anonymous
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サブフォルダーに来た新着メールはそのフォルダーを開かなければ未読かどうか分からない。例えば部署別にホルダーを作成し、その中に担当別のフォルダーを作っている場合、すべてのフォルダーを開いてみなければ分からないので困ってます。未読があれば親フォルダーの文字を大きくするとか未読数量を表
New mail that arrives in a sub-folder is unclear if it is unread unless the folder is opened. For example, if you create a holder for each department and create a folder for each person in charge, you have to open all the folders and you will not know. If there is unread, increase the text of the parent folder or display the unread quantity
