Software Tips & Tricks Colour Coding Inbox in Outlook Express

By Laura Noble

A helpful method to organize the "sea of emails" in your Inbox is to colour code the incoming mail by sender. Assign different colours to different addresses/senders. Colour coding will highlight the email separating the priority messages.

1. From the Tools menu select Message Rules, Mail and click New
   
   
2. The New Mail Rule box opens
   
   
3. In the Select the Conditions for your rule section select Where the From line contains people
   
   
4. In the Select the Actions for your rule section select Highlight it with color
   
   
5. In the Rule Description box left-mouse click contains people
   

   

   
   
6. The Select People box will open
   
   
7. Click the Address Book button and select address(es) from your Address Book
   
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   Type the email address and click the Add button
   
   
8. Click OK when all addresses have been selected for the new mail rule.
   
   
9. In the Rule Description of the New Mail Rule box left-mouse click color and the Select Color box will open.
   
   
10. Select a colour and and click OK.
    

    

    
    
11. In the New Mail Rule box fill in name of Mail Rule and click OK twice to close boxes and save rule.
    
    
12. Incoming emails from the selected address(es) will be displayed in the selected colour.
    

    

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Laura Noble is the owner of Noble Software Solutions. Laura can be contacted at 519-680-2689 or by e-mail at lnoble@noblesoftwaresolutions.com. www.noblesoftwaresolutions.com

Published in Networking Today, December 2002.