Flagged emails should not be yellow in inbox in Microsoft Outlook 2016
Flagged emails should not be defaulted to yellow highlight as well as the red flag. This should be an optional function turned on/off or provide an option to make it an optional feature.
Nikkita Mitchell
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We recently shipped a setting to disable the yellow message highlight. It is slowly rolling out to subscription users. The setting is in the Options dialog, Mail tab, Other category: “Highlight flagged items in the message list”.
321 comments
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Giulia
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The dark UI version is an awful brown — the possibility to switch it off or change color seems pretty basic to me, please consider to implement the option ASAP.
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Anonymous
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flagged items should have a CHOOSIBLE color option.
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Monique Caines
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Yikes! I just migrated to O365. I've always found the flags very useful, but now having a screen essentially blurred with continuous yellow highlighting isn't terribly productive at actually discerning priorities. And, the recent fix to uncheck highlighting doesn't work. Is there a workaround, please?
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Jiri
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Hi, highlights do not react to the unchecked field in my company outlook (just after the outlook update introduced the awfull highlighs).
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Anonymous
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Thanks for this, unticked and working fine now. no hightlighting of message when flagged.
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Lisa
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Completed feature doesn't work - so it's pointless. Still highlighted yellow when unchecking the box. Horrible feature and can't use flags now. Wish didn't have to use microsoft because of this. Obviously I'm not the only one - RE OPEN THIS AND ACTUALLY FIX IT THIS TIME.
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Anonymous
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i unchecked this box and it did not fix this problem. do you know why? i am VERY disappointed that this change was implemented for me as a user, rather than letting me add this as an additional tool to manage my inbox. I've spent an hour trying to understand how to disable this b/c i find it extremely unhelpful and distracting. Very very poor user experience.
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Anonymous
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ooohhhh much better live saver... didn't like all that yellow!
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Stephen Kohler
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Personally I like it but I agree with the group that users should be able to adjust using view settings. While I'm at it, how about view settings you can apply to multiple, or all folders, or just one. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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turning off "Highlight flagged items in the message list” does not work
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Tiffany
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Checkbox for “Highlight flagged items in the message list” does not work. Unchecked and nothing happens. Tried several times with restarts as well, still highlighted in yellow. I agree with the others that I would enjoy this feature if I could change the color. Could be nice to also have them be different colors or shades based on when they are due. Maybe give us more calendar color options as well, it's hard to color code things when the across-the-board options aren't standardized. I managed 10 calendars at a time. This would help.
The auto yellow highlighting is awful and distracting.
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Warren_S
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Get rid of yellow highlighting. What is wrong with you?
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Anonymous
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Work gave us the update over the weekend and like everyone else I HATE the next yellow highlighting of flagger emails. Agree unticking the box appears to do nothing.
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Anonymous
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Unticking the "Highlight flagged items in the message list” box doesn't work!
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Anonymous
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TAKE AWAY THE YELLOW FLAG
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Anonymous
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Allow users to turn off yellow highlighting for flagged items
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Anonymous
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Turning off "Highlight flagged items" is not working
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TZ
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NOT FIXED. Checkbox for “Highlight flagged items in the message list” does NOT work. Unchecked and nothing happens. Tried several times with restarts as well, still highlighted in yellow. As others said, I would enjoy this feature if I could change the color. Could be nice to also have them be different colors or shades based on when they are due.
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Attila Szél
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Pls, delete this yellow highlight or an option to turn off... thanks.
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Sean Murphy
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I had disabled this feature, but now it has returned and the toggle button does nothing. The feature could be useful, but as currently implemented, it is HIDEOUSLY ugly. Please restore toggle ability, allow an option to change the highlight color or remove the feature entirely.
