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Make Messages Stand Out in Outlook

If you get dozens -- or hundreds -- of e-mails a day, many of them screaming for your attention, how can you mark which are the really important ones to deal with?

One way you can do it is to have every message from a particular sender, such as your boss or an important customer, display in red as soon as it arrives. Here's how to do it in Outlook 2003:

1. Select a message from this sender, then select Tools/Organize.
   
   
2. In the organizing panel, select Using Colors.
   
   
3. The default selection should offer to color all messages from that sender in red. Change it if you want, then click the Apply Color button. All messages from that sender will now be red.
   
   
4. Click the X in the upper-right of the Organize panel to close it.