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mark emails with colour manually (like in thunderbird)
Hi,
I would like to move from thunderbird to outlook, however I'm missing one thing that I'm using frequently.
When you select one or multiple emails in thunderbird, then press specific number on keyboard, email would mark with colour.
1 = red
2 = orange
3 = green
4 = blue
5 = purple
0 = reset/remove all
and it is possible to add more/change those
As per screenshot below:
is there similar option in outlook as well?
- I made this video for you - https://www.screencast.com/t/xcmNLLzcm5XI - first part shows how to get categories working - a non-macro method and a using a macro - the end shows how to do conditional formatting.
The macro I used is here - https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlook-categories-flags-and-imap-accounts/
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- No. The closest you can get is Categories: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-and-assign-color-categories-a1fde97e-15e1-4179-a1a0-8a91ef89b8dc
Alternatively, you can configure conditional formatting to change the text color: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/automatically-change-incoming-message-colors-and-fonts-based-on-sender-subject-or-recipients-4efbf993-fb00-4f2c-9a3f-78e64e4455ec
Both methods don't allow you to highlight the entire row though. The only functionality that does that is Flagging a message, and it's always going to be Red - no way to modify that.VasilMichev it doesn't have to be entire row, but just colour, could be only letters in colour, something to use that emails stand out, so in inbox I can instantly mark emails like:
- red very important, do it today
- orange, less important, could be done today
- green, private emails not my work emails
and similar....
I will check links you have provided shortly, thanks.krolwioski Outlook has color coding using condition formatting in views - but you would need to have something to color code on - and categories as the condition would be the easiest. Unless you are using words in the subject or body or email address.
It only colors the text (you can change the font too).
This formats mail from within my domain - and shows what Outlook's Category feature does. Definitely not as visible as in T-bird.
