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Outlook: Important E-Mails highlight

  • Dec 23, 2025
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In Outlook, you can highlight important E-Mails in the Inbox, easily colored, and thus a better Overview. For example, messages can thus be a distribution of private Mails.

Distribution-Mails from private E-Mails differ in color

  1. Open the "Inbox" in Outlook and select "tools" > "Organize". On your electronic mail box the "Organize Inbox"appears.
  2. In it, you choose the action "use colors" and behind it in the combo box "Only messages sent to me in" the desired color for the display of the E-Mails. You can activate this function with "On".
  3. Messages to classes, such as "Unread messages" or "Expired E-Mail" to assign further formatting, click on the Link for "Automatic formatting" to the right of the title bar of the "Organize Inbox".
  4. In the following Dialog, activate and select, for example, the entry "Directly to me, sent E-Mail" and click on "Font". After that you can change for the presentation of such E-Mails in the Inbox, in addition to the color also the font, Font style and size, or the messages even underline, and strikethrough allow.
  5. Confirm your entries with "OK". To disable the special rendering, click in the "Organize Inbox" under "colors" to "Off".

Note: The settings you should make

  • In the Dialog "Automatic formatting" you can create by clicking on "Add" more message classes. Outlook generates and marks a new entry in the list. Under "Name" enter the name of the new class and using the "define Font, then again," her appearance in the Inbox.
  • Finally, you determine the "condition" in the Dialog "Filter" the different criteria for the assignment of E-Mails to this message class. In the "messages" tab you can specify sender and recipient and determine whether or not your address should only or in addition to those of other recipients in the "TO"line or the "CC"line of the E-Mail.
  • In the tab "More options" to filter the messages of a class, for example, to read or unread, with or without the Annex, as well as "importance". On the "Advanced" tab you will have access to all the attributes of an E-Mail. Here you can specify for each "field" is a "condition" and a "value".
Tip: Backup your Outlook emails with a quick Backup.

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