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• What Do The Colors In Outlook Email Mean Without
• What Do The Colors Mean In Outlook Email

Mar 08, 2017 Naturally some colors are more eye-catching than others, so your eye is going to be drawn to those more and since the colors are applied randomly, Outlook Mail is probably going to draw your. Outlook does not use the registry for a master category list; they are stored in the default message store (mailbox or pst). If you are setting up a new system and using your old pst the color categories will be available on the new system.

• Use color to identify people and subjects when you download them to your Outlook Inbox. Copying the format to other views will retain the color, even if you move the message to another folder.
• Naturally some colors are more eye-catching than others, so your eye is going to be drawn to those more and since the colors are applied randomly, Outlook Mail is probably going to draw your.

Outlook holds a lot of icons to indicate different item types and other item properties. Below you’ll find a long list of these icons and their meaning.

E-mail

Meeting Messages

Calendar

Contacts

Tasks

Journal

For an overview of journal items click here.

Folders

General

Security (icon shown in Message)

Flags (Outlook 2003)

Non-Native (added via custom forms or add-ins)

This is about the new yellow highlighting on flagged emails in Windows Outlook in Office 365.

First, here is how you turn it off if you don’t like it (and how to turn it on if you don’t have it and want it):
https://www.michaellinenberger.com/blog/option-to-turn-off-flagged-mail-highlighting-added/

And here are more details:

As I have mentioned in a previous post, the new versions of Windows of Outlook that are rolling out to the monthly Office Insiders group in Microsoft Office 365 are pretty darn good. You might have to activate the Coming Soon switch to see them, but the things I’ve mentioned so far that I really like are:

• The Simplified Ribbon option (Excellent!)
• Slightly more space between messages in the Inbox (Nice)
• And slightly more vertical space between tasks in the To-Do Bar task list (Very Nice)

Whoever in Microsoft is managing these new changes, I’d like to take you out to lunch! Unlike changes in years past, each and every one of these changes, I feel, makes desktop Outlook a better product without limiting previous features. Bravo!

One of the new features rolling out in recent Insider Coming Soon versions of Outlook is one I’d like to highlight now. It is this: Flagged mail now gets a yellow highlight.

What Do The Colors In Outlook Email Mean Without

Here is what I am talking about. Look at the image below. Notice the 4th item down (I added a red box to show it better). See how it is light-yellow in color? That is because the flag is set at its right edge.

And that’s the new feature. In the latest copies of Insider Outlook, when you set a flag on an email, the entire email turns yellow in the List view.

It’s funny, because about six months ago (before this change) I had made note to myself that it was too bad flagged mail did not stand out more. The red flag to the right was often overlooked as I moved quickly through my mail list. Now those items stand out much better. Seriously, it is almost as if Microsoft read my mind with this new feature.

Proper Use of the Flag

As a review, for my 1MTD and MYN users, I recommend you use that flag sparingly. My recommendation for flags is this: only use the flag for deferred replies—for emails you intend to reply to but can’t right now. Mark them with a flag, and don’t use the flag for anything else. And try to reply to all emails marked this way by the end of the day, and remove the flag after you reply. That’s my recommendation.

And now, Microsoft has made it easier to see these items. Thank you!

What Do The Colors Mean In Outlook Email

Michael