Color Category as Background for Message in Inbox?

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I want to be able to set the Color Category for an email in one of my
mailboxes (like the Inbox) and have the background color for that email
change based on what color I chose. I thought Outlook 2003 did this. I
*know* Thunderbird can do this. How do I get Outlook 2007 to do this?
 
Just to be hopefully more clear, I am assigning color categories manually to
messages in my Inox (and other boxes). Instead of checking the tiny color
box in next to the message's date, I want the entire background of the
message to be affected - like Outlook 2003 did it.

Make sense?

-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
 
Sindyr said:
Just to be hopefully more clear, I am assigning color categories
manually to messages in my Inox (and other boxes). Instead of
checking the tiny color box in next to the message's date, I want the
entire background of the message to be affected - like Outlook 2003
did it.
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No it didn't.
 
I thought it did, but no matter.

Back to the point: How do I get the color category to be the background of
the message header in the Inbox list? Without doing that I am liable to
overlook the colored message, which kind of misses the point.
 
Sindyr said:
Back to the point: How do I get the color category to be the
background of the message header in the Inbox list? Without doing
that I am liable to overlook the colored message, which kind of
misses the point.
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I can't find any way to do that.
 
That's too bad - Mozilla Thunderbird (a competing product) will do that -
really handy for making latter stand out instead of the little color square
you get in Outlook. I hope Microsoft decides to add this feature soon.

Thanks for checking.
 
You can color code the text.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/coloremail.htm

Early BETA builds of Outlook 2007 color coded the entire background for the
color categories. Luckily they abandoned that as when you use categories on
every email, your mail folder looks like Xmas lighting gone bad. Using too
much color in a small area is a bad thing anyway as the human cannot make
all the colors sharp at the same time so reading would become more
difficult.
 
I checked out that link - even color coding the text would be a step in the
right direction - but I do not see a set of step to manually (not automatic)
color one single message in the Inbox?

As far as having a rainbow mailbox - I do not plan to color *every* piece of
mail, just some, so I would really really like the option of background
coloring those messages in the Inbox.

But if there is some way to color even just the text of any random manually
selected message in the Inbox, it would be a start.

How?

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-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
 
You can combine Automatic Formatting with Categories. So when you manually
assign a specific category to a specific item, the text will change
automatically with it.
 
How do I combine the two? I can create an Automatic Formatting rule that,
for example, makes all the mail from my friend Green, but when I go to an
email not from my friend and manually set it to the Green Category, the test
does not change color. Do I have to link the Green category and the
Automatic rule somehow?
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-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
 
I just figured it out - Under Automatic Formatting I click on Condition, go
to the More Choices tab, and choose the appropriate Category to filter by.

It works!

Thanks.

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-Benn Grant
eFix Computer Consulting
 
There you go :-)

You're welcome! :-)



Sindyr said:
I just figured it out - Under Automatic Formatting I click on Condition,
go
to the More Choices tab, and choose the appropriate Category to filter by.

It works!

Thanks.
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