Provide an option to assign colors for incoming emails in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for easy identification
Provide an option to assign colors for incoming emails in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for easy identification. Designate my supervisors emails writing in Red as an example. Just being able to assign a font color to a person for incoming mail so they pop out at you. Especially when you receive hundreds of emails a day. I would rather have that then the little color boxes.
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Lisa
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I am aware of conditional formatting and the flag feature, but I would like to be able to use the 'categories' feature to color code my emails temporarily. For example, to prioritize my day. Currently applying a category only puts a very small little box to the side that is barely visible. I would like the entire line to be highlighted in my choice of color/category, which I can then remove when no longer needed.
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Anonymous
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! GroupWise did this!!! LOVED IT!!!!
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Lynette
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Enable the ability to color codes messages in my inbox. On this latest update flagged messages are colored yellow. I would like to color code all messages different colors by what the mean to me. Such as expanding the categorize color to the whole filed not just a box.
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Geoff
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You can already do this using conditional formatting.
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Anonymous
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They already have this option. I use and LOVE it! Under "View" tab:
View Settings
Conditional formatting; click Add
Name your rule (ie, you can put your supervisor's name in there.)
Click on Font--pick a color, style, and size
Click OK
Click on Condition
Type in the email address of your supervisor, or sender you want to highlight. -
Charlie
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The first email in your Inbox is shaded white, the email below it is shaded grey, the next one below is shaded white again, and so on. This makes it easier to distinguish each email. This alternating shading means that when you expand the email thread, by clicking the little arrowhead, it is clear where the email thread ends and the next email starts.
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Caeli
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Please reinstate the ability to color code specific emails that are incoming. You USED to be able to do this but on the newer versions of Outlook you can only specify category which is worthless.
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Anonymous
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ok
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MD AL AMIN
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it would be great if mail is being marked in inbox by a colour according to receiver, for To one colour for being in cc by another colour.
to ( direct receiver ) by any colour. it will help separate mail from all mail.
for example: the person receive to many mail but most of the time he is not the receiver he remain in cc he did not need to reply the mail. but when the receiver in To then he should give reply the mail or he is the concern person and that mail need to be identified first. but when I see the inbox all mail are the same. I hope, Microsoft will be kind the make our work more easy. it would be kind if you make an update. thank you and have a great day!
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Ettlinger
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Ce serait pratique 2 pouvoirs avoir 2 couleurs pour la réponse en fonction qu'il s'agit d'une réponse pure et simple ou si l'on insère notre commentaire dans un mail de quelqu'un (avec le nom qui s'affiche devant). Car pour la réponse dans un mail une couleur flashy serait mieux mais pour une réponse simple ce n'est absolument pas nécessaire et cela fait même bizarre
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Mary Anne McDonald
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Yes, I can't believe that Outlook doesn't have a way to mark and group messages in the in box. This would be a very popular feature.
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Zane S
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It would be nice when assigning a category(ies) to an email, the entire inline message would change that color. Have it configurable to show a category as it does not or change color of the message.
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Darren
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You can do this using conditional formatting, but it's not as good as the Lotus Notes feature which is easier to set up and has been in the product for 12 years.
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Adam Lein
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This feature request has been possible in the existing interface for about 20 years. All you have to do is create a custom view for your inbox and add some conditional formatting rules where emails from a specific person or with specific keywords are changed to a specific color. I do this for multiple email accounts and it works really well for visually identifying the important messages based on color. Best friends get one color, family gets another color. In my work accounts, clients and bosses are color coded. It works really well.
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Anonymous
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'There should be options to change the received email page color in Outlook 2016 for every user regardless of what the sender sents. This is an effect which will enhance the client's experience with outlook. Currently, it is only the theme which changes the options and email list section to the desired color, but the received email's body remains unchanged, so the feature should be added which will also change the color for the received email's body according to the user's need.'
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Anonymous
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'There should be options to change the received email page color in Outlook 2016 for every user regardless of what the sender sents. This is an effect which will enhance the client's experience with outlook. Currently, it is only the theme which changes the options and email list section to the desired color, but the received email's body remains unchanged, so the feature should be added which will also change the color for the received email's body according to the user's need.'
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