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Author
21 Nov 2007 3:51 AM
Mr. Nemo
Is it possible to attach an icon "other than the default icon" to emails
coming from a specific sender? Is it possible in Microsoft Outlook?

Author
21 Nov 2007 5:47 AM
John Guin
With form regions, yes, you could, but that would be a very heavy solution
involving a fair bit of (simple) code.

As a workaround, you can use conditional formatting to change the color of
incoming mail items.  I do this for people on my team (for instance, Doehee's
mail items show in pink, Bruce in blue, etc...)

Here's how:  click view \ current view \ customize current view.
click the Automatic formatting
click the Add button
click Condition
now you will get a little UI that lets you choose which mail items you want
to work with.  In this case, From == <<Sender email name>>
OK
now change the font to whatever color, size, etc... you want.

the downside is doing this for each person you want to create the color for.
But it is still simpler than the alternate method.

I hope this works.

--
Thanks,
John Guin
OneNote Test Team
http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin


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"Mr. Nemo" wrote:

> Is it possible to attach an icon "other than the default icon" to emails
> coming from a specific sender? Is it possible in Microsoft Outlook?
Author
21 Nov 2007 10:43 AM
Judy Gleeson (MVP Outlook)
or show the Categories column and categorise incoming emails using Rules
and/or automatic formatting


Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia


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"John Guin" <john (dot) guin (at) hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6B1DE401-D7ED-48E2-AD20-C495F61E8861@microsoft.com...
> With form regions, yes, you could, but that would be a very heavy solution
> involving a fair bit of (simple) code.
>
> As a workaround, you can use conditional formatting to change the color of
> incoming mail items.  I do this for people on my team (for instance,
> Doehee's
> mail items show in pink, Bruce in blue, etc...)
>
> Here's how:  click view \ current view \ customize current view.
> click the Automatic formatting
> click the Add button
> click Condition
> now you will get a little UI that lets you choose which mail items you
> want
> to work with.  In this case, From == <<Sender email name>>
> OK
> now change the font to whatever color, size, etc... you want.
>
> the downside is doing this for each person you want to create the color
> for.
> But it is still simpler than the alternate method.
>
> I hope this works.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> John Guin
> OneNote Test Team
> http://blogs.msdn.com/johnguin
>
>
> "Mr. Nemo" wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to attach an icon "other than the default icon" to emails
>> coming from a specific sender? Is it possible in Microsoft Outlook?

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