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Sending a red email – 1st step First, in the normal Outlook window, click on the “New Email” button (usually located in the top left corner of the screen). *Since we received many emails from our users asking about incoming Outlook emails displayed in red, we decided to post this step-by-step tutorial for generating red emails.*

If you use Microsoft Outlook to read your emails, every once in a while you may receive a red email message. Well, its subject is colored red, the actual body of the message is formatted normally, exactly like how it was sent.

How can this be, since when you compose a new email you can’t set any text properties (like Bold, Italic, color and so on) for the subject line? This also applies for messages written in the “Plain text” format, so the red emails aren’t related to the content properties for sure.

Receiving red emails is purely related to the way Outlook handles user-defined email properties. Practically, if someone sends you an Outlook email and the message is flagged for follow-up (or any category for that matter) with a reminder date set in the past, you will receive and see the email colored in red. It’s that simple. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial though, so you don’t have to search Outlook for the particular features this makes use of.

*Note that the steps one has to take in order to send a red email are provided below under the Outlook 2010 interface.*

First, in the normal Outlook window, click on the “New Email” button (usually located in the top left corner of the screen). You will be presented with the Message ribbon in the upper part of the window, which contains the regular fields (clipboard, basic text properties etc. – additionally, my ribbon also contains an entry for one of our add-ins for Outlook named Auto Follow-Up). To the right you will see the “Tags” section, and the Follow-up button inside it is what interests us now (if you have an older version of Outlook, then the option will be present but in a different place – you will still be able to send red emails though). Click on it, then on the “Add Reminder” button from the drop-down menu.

Since you want your red email to be seen on the recipient’s computer, uncheck the box next to “Flag for me” and check the one below, labeled “Flag for Recipients”.

You can leave the first field as-is, or change it to your liking, but must check the box next to “Reminder”. You will be presented with a calendar in which you have to pick a passed date (this, as I stated earlier, is the reason for the color of the red email). For example, since the day I am writing this is the 23rd of February, I will pick the reminder to expire on the 22nd of the same month.

It’s a sure-fire way to catch the attention of any user! Since many are not aware of this little trick, the new red email that popped into their Inbox will surely become of top priority, and therefore opened and read carefully. Because of its relative novelty I suggest that you don’t over-abuse it or your customers (and even friends) will start getting annoyed, or at the least, grow accustomed to this type of message. Remember that a red email is very easy to spot and if its content isn’t particularly interesting then it will be deleted with much more ease.

*For example, let’s say that you receive a rather boring and uninspired newsletter daily. If the persons sending it will transform it into a red email every time, you will soon be able to select and delete it in a matter of seconds.*

So, if you choose to send out red email-based marketing campaigns, make sure that the person receiving it will find something of interest inside. Don’t overdo it or your customers may even develop a negative association with this type of message. Additionally, since it only works for Outlook and you can’t know the email software used by your email recipient(s), you shouldn’t focus your email success efforts only on this ‘red email’ trick. The message’s subject and content are far more important.

This red email trick only works for users of Outlook (2003 or higher). All other email client programs simply ignore this follow-up email property.

Even if this red email technique is sometimes used by spammers, it will not increase your messages’ spam rating from SpamAssassin or the particular program assigned to deal with the unwanted messages. This is because a red email uses an internal function of Outlook, the one that deals with follow-ups and their reminders.

If you have ever sent out an email newsletter, I’m sure that with each passing campaign you encountered people who opted out of your email list. Have you ever asked yourself why? Read more: Why do people unsubscribe to emails? | 1 Comment

The subject line in an email, almost as much as the from line, is one of the most important deal-breakers for your readers. That’s why this week we looked at how different email clients (on all platforms we could get our hands on) dealt with them… So, continue reading and see for yourself how many characters your subject line should have! Read more: The maximum displayed length of the email subject line | 1 Comment

In last week’s article, we hoped to convince you that the from line is at least as important as the subject line in all your email communications. Now, to help you out, we tested different platforms and came up with the following “cheat-sheet”, detailing the maximum displayed length of the from line on different browsers, phones and desktop applications! Read more: The maximum displayed length of the email from line | 2 Comments

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How to send an email with subject line in red color in Outlook?

Send an email with subject line in red color. You can send an email with subject line in red color by adding expired reminder to it. Please do as follows. 1. Create an email and compose it. 2. Click Home > Follow Up > Add Reminder. See screenshot: 3. In the Custom dialog box, you need to: When sending some important emails, you may try to make the email subject line in red color for making it outstanding in recipient’s mail list for attracting their attention. This article will introduce a shortcut to show you how to send an email with subject line in red color in Outlook.

You can send an email with subject line in red color by adding expired reminder to it. Please do as follows.

The email’s subject as well as the sender name will be displayed in red color in recipient’s mail list as below screenshot:

Make Important Email Standout in Outlook with Color Coding

To color code sent mail items, you should select your sent mail folder, then go to View > View Settings > Conditional formatting. And then you are correct in that you should put the email address Hot Topics: How to Fix Bluetooth Pairing Problems | Complete Guide to Facebook Privacy | How to Block Spam Calls | REVIEW: RadMission 1 eBike

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To make sure emails from important contacts stand out and do not go unnoticed, you can set up a rule that makes the email appear in a specific color or a specific size and type of font. For example, you can make emails from your boss appear in a larger font or have emails from family members all appear in red. To set up the way emails are displayed for Outlook for Microsoft 365, Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2007:

Given that macs make up the majority of computers for early adopters, and an even higher percentage for female early tech adopters, you might note that the color coding of email works easily in Mac Mail as well. 

Merely go to Mail > Preferences > Rules and add a rule that assigns a color to specific senders as you designate.Keep up the good work.  By the way, I really liked the daily coverage of CES.

I have not been able to “merely” go to Mail > Preferences > Rules and add a rule that assigns a color to senders, recipients, etc…

Outlook is so unintuitive, I could not for the life of me figure out how to color code. Your article was the only thing that helped me!

I occasionally get an email in Outlook that stands out by its red color, as opposed to all the emails in the list that are plain black.  How can I send an email that will show up on the receivers side in red color ?

The color coding in Outlook is controlled by the receiver of the messages (based on their Outlook settings), not the sender. If you are seeing messages in red, it may because they were sent as “high priority”. You can check your own Outlook settings to see which messages default to red on your end and, perhaps, your recipient will have it set up the same way. Also, this only applies to Outlook. If the person is reading those messages on a mobile device or via the web (e.g., Google Mail), settings will be different.

Good article but am still trying to figure out if coloring the different folders in my Personal Folders is possible.

I went through all these steps and even rebooted my system and the color code rule is not working. Any additional tips? Should I select Reset View to make the change occur?

I just went through the process again with Outlook 2016 and it works the same. Just make sure you click “ok” on all of the boxes.

In Outlook2010 I want to select random emails to be different colours so I can go back to them later. How can I do that? And can I then filter based on colour?

Our company is mostly PCs so these instructions will work for them, but we have 6 Mac users and these directions don’t work for the Outlook 2016 for Mac.  Can you write up directions for that?  Thanks!

I was wondering if there is any way to get the color coding to show up on the Iphone app view??

Is there a way that I can decide? If I get 15 emails from the same person and only 1 is important enough to be flagged, that’s the only one I want highlighted, bold, Arial, with a 16 pt font size, can I make a menu item to do so?

I tried to follow the directions.  On the advanced View Settings: Compact dialog box, I choose conditional formatting; I then identify a few people I want to receive in a different color, hit ok.  their names appear in the Filter section of the dialog box.  I want to add more names but will they all appear?  Your screen shot just says “advanced” in the filter section.

and I just had to clear everything I did in previous message as my inbox disappeared.  I guess what I did was to only have emails from certain people appear. 

I’m having issues prioritizing rules that may overlap. For instance, I have the default “unread messages” rule set to have the font in red. However, I also have a rule for messages sent only to me (and CC: and BCC: being set to “empty”) to be green.

So, when I receive an email sent only to me but it’s unread, it defaults to green. I want unread messages to first prioritize to red (even if only sent to me). I can’t seem to select the “move up” or “move down” buttons (they are greyed out- is it possible these have been deliberately restricted?).

There are a few rules at the top of the list in the “Conditional Formatting” section that you can’t move. If you uncheck the default “Unread Messages” rule and then add your own new rules. You can reorder rules that you create. Here’s the order that worked for me:

1. Unread Messages from specific person 1 (make sure you go to the “more choices” tab and check off “Only items that are:” and make it “unread”)2. Messages from specific person 1 (do not go to the “more choices” tab and select anything for “Only items that are:”)3. Unread Messages (the new one I created)

Hi, this is a real late response. I was struggling with mine as well and then I read that after the email, you must place semi colon and the first and last name….(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)//= 0; i=i-1) if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') output += "&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"; else output += unescape(l[i]);document.getElementById('eeEncEmail_ewax7XIkRI').innerHTML = output;//]]>; john doethat did the trick for me!

Adding Rules for Multiple People: There are a few rules at the top of the list in the “Conditional Formatting” section that you can’t move. If you uncheck the default “Unread Messages” rule and then add your own new rules. You can reorder rules that you create. Here’s the order that worked for me:

1. Unread Messages from specific person 1 (make sure you go to the “more choices” tab and check off “Only items that are:” and make it “unread”)2. Messages from specific person 1 (do not go to the “more choices” tab and select anything for “Only items that are:”)3. Unread Messages from specific person 2 (make sure you go to the “more choices” tab and check off “Only items that are:” and make it “unread”)4. Messages from specific person 2 (do not go to the “more choices” tab and select anything for “Only items that are:”)

Thanks for the info.I am trying to colour code messages that I have sent to specific people but just can’t get it to work. I have successfully colour coded messages from specific people with various colours.Is this what the Sent To field is for?Also, how do I make it colour code emails to multiple people at the same domain address? I have done this successfully for emails from a domain.Thanks for your help

To color code sent mail items, you should select your sent mail folder, then go to View > View Settings > Conditional formatting. And then you are correct in that you should put the email address or domain in the “Sent to” field.

To color code for everyone at a specific domain, use the “@” before the domain. So for Techlicious, it would look like this:

I noticed that the color coding will only apply to the Main Inbox folder. How do I make it so that automatically applies to the sub-folder inboxes, I create, as well?

Thank you! One question - the coloring works perfectly. After I read a message, the color goes back to standard/whatever it was before, and I lose the highlight on the sender’s message, but would like for it to remain. How do I set that condition? Thanks for the clear steps by the way in this document. Have a great day.

As an update; I found the answer to my own question just now, uncovered a conflicting rule on “Read” messages. Unchecked it and I’m good. So now my comment is just; THANK YOU!

However, as I get emails sent to my boss with me in the CC list, how do I color code emails that is sent to him? And sometimes it may not only be his email statated in the ‘To’ box but containing several other recipients too.

In this case, will setting up two rules work? I tried it, but it does not work when say an email is sent to my boss and another person. It will not color code this email.

I wish that I could color code my file folders. I use them extensively to save emails and it would be a lot easier to drag emails to the correct file folder if the folders were different colors, even if they had to repeat a few colors, it would visually be easier to find.

I know I can color code different senders in Outlook but I would like to be color coding my subject folders.

Is there a limit as to how many conditional formatting rules (ie. assign colors to incoming emails) that you can add in Outlook 2007 or Outlook 365?

Outlook doesn’t have a set limit to the number of rules but, by default, the size limit of the rules in the mailbox is 64kb. This will probably translate into approximately 100 conditional formatting rules, but will vary based on the complexity of your specific rule set. For more info, see: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2622933/a-user-cannot-create-new-rules-in-outlook-or-outlook-web-app

If you are in a Microsoft Exchange Server environment, the rules size quota can be customized by the administrator to up to 256kb: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/886616/some-rules-are-disabled-and-you-receive-an-error-message-when-you-try

It doesn’t help me to color code emails by who has sent them. I want to be able to color code my folders where I save emails. For instance, my co-worker may send me a grant related email, or an HR related email, or a seminar related email. I would find it much faster and easier to drag an email I want to save, to the red folders and find the grant folder I need to save it in, and another email from the same sender, regarding HR issues to the group of green folders and find the proper folder. All my folders are blue, alphabetical with sub folders and sub sub folders. It is a long complicated but intricately important list and slows me way down finding the initial area where I need to drag the email because .well it just does. Sooooo, I wish I could color code my folders, not my emails and not by sender but by main subject of the folders I am saving the emails in.

Is there a way to only change the color code and font to bold only to the folder title?, since the regular emails to be sent to all my contacts business and friends just need to be untouched, and always with the standard font size and Black color

I went through all of the steps to color code incoming emails, but it’s not working.  I must be missing something.  Ideas please? 

Please would you post instructions for a Macbook running Outlook 365? These work perfectly for a Windows based system and we would like the same for our Macbook users, please.

Is there any way to color code emails from specific people in gmail? I need some emails to “pop” out with different colors so I don’t miss them. Thanks for letting me know. .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)//= 0; i=i-1) if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') output += "&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"; else output += unescape(l[i]);document.getElementById('eeEncEmail_AYuFww6Fex').innerHTML = output;//]]>

It seems the rules (color) keeps disappearing every 2 weeks and I have to keep setting it up. Why does it do this? How do I lock in the rule?

I want to be able to color code messages that are in my inbox by color so I can easily find messages relating to a particular topic or task. Using the category colors doesn’t work because that only puts a color code on the opened email. I want to see the color in the inbox.

I sent a test email to myself, and it showed up as regular until I deleted it. Then I check the deleted items folder, and it showed up there it the font and color that I had specified.

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Automatically change incoming message colors and fonts based on sender

These are some examples of conditional formatting rules that you can create in Outlook 2010. Follow steps 1 and 2 in the previous section, and then do the following: Make all messages from John Kane appear in red. Select Add.

Emails in red font WHY? - Microsoft Community

You have an automatic formatting rule that is using some criterion to color the messages. Click Tools>Organize>Using Colors>Automatic Formatting and look. I believe there's a default rule that uses red to color messages flagged with high priority. See this: Make Outlook more colorful with Automatic Formatting.

Automatically change incoming message colors and fonts based on sender

Create a conditional formatting rule. Example conditional formatting rules. Make all messages from John Kane appear in red. Make all messages that contain the word Contoso in the subject appear green. Make all messages that contain the word holiday in the subject or message body appear blue. Create a conditional formatting rule. In Mail, click View.

How To Color Code Emails in Outlook 2013

Here you can make sure you choose a specific color to go with the condition. For this specific one, select a bold color like Red, so that it will stand out in your Outlook Inbox. You might even want to make it a bit larger and put the font in Bold, so that when you see it, you know the message is only for you, and that it could be important.

How to color code Outlook messages by sender (and why you should

How to customize incoming Outlook messages with color and font. Click the View option from the tabs that run horizontally along the top of your Outlook screen. (It's the fifth tab from the left.)

How to change the font color of unread message in Outlook?

2. In the Advanced View Settings: Compact dialog, click Conditional Formatting. 3. In the Conditional Formatting dialog, check Unread message checkbox only, and click the Font button. 4. Then in the Font dialog, in the Color drop-down list, select one color as you need. 5. click OK > OK > OK to close dialogs.

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Replied on October 10, 2020. If you're on chrome you can right click the tab hotmail is open in and then click "Mute site". My guess is that it is not a bug it is infact a js library that triggers it even when no unread emails are there. make email red in outlook

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