How to Create a Rule to Make Names in a Color on Outlook 2007
If you receive a large number of emails in your Outlook inbox, it can be hard to spot the important messages among all the rest. To make important messages stand out, you can color-code email messages, applying a specific color to the emails marked with a contact's name. Your first inclination might be to click the "Rules" icon in the toolbar; however, Outlook 2007 contains a special pane that provides a more elegant way to create these kinds of rules.
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Instructions
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Start Outlook 2007. Click "Mail," then "Inbox."
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Click "Tools," then "Organize" to open the "Ways to Organize Inbox" pane.
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Click "Using Colors" in the menu on the left side of the "Ways to Organize Inbox" pane. The color-coding options appear.
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Enter the name of the person to whose messages you wish to apply a color into the text field next to the "Color messages" option.
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Select the color you want to apply to messages from this person from the drop-down menu under the "Color messages" option.
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Click "Apply Color" to color-code messages according to the options you set.
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Tips & Warnings
By default, this option color-codes messages from the person whose name you enter. If you want to color-code messages you send to this person, select "sent to" in the first field of the "Color messages" option.
