Colour Coding Inbox in Outlook

By Laura Noble

 

A helpful method to organize the "sea of e-mails" in your Inbox is to colour code the incoming mail by sender.

Assign different colours to different addresses/senders. Colour coding will highlight the e-mail separating the priority messages.

  1. Select an e-mail from sender/address.
     

  2. Click the Organize icon.

  1. A new pane will open in the top portion of Inbox window. Click the Using Colors option.

  1. Select a colour to apply to e-mails from sender/address.
     

  2. Click Apply Color button.
     

  3. Close Organize box ("X" in top right corner of pane).
     

  4. Any new e-mails from sender/address will be colour coded as set.

Change Colour: Follow steps above.

To learn how to Colour Code in Outlook Express refer to tip on Colour Coding Inbox in Outlook Express.

E-mails can also be sorted by each column heading: Sort E-mails.

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