mark messages from someone in specified category

[MT]

I want messages from people in particular categories to be marked (or coloured) in my inbox automatically. I can't find a rule format to help. Any ideas? thanks. (am using oulook 2003)

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

View | Arrange By | Current View | Customize Current View | Automatic
Formatting.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

I want messages from people in particular categories to be marked (or

coloured) in my inbox automatically. I can't find a rule format to help.
Any ideas? thanks. (am using oulook 2003)

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Ah, I didn't understand that you wanted to use category information from the
contact, not the message.

Outlook is not a relational database and doesn't support what you want out
of the box. You'd have to write code to look up the contact, get the
contact's category, apply that category to the message -- and then automatic
formatting would work.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[MT]

Thanks Sue. How helpful - is this your job? Anyway it sounds like that's exactly what I need but I'll have to research a bit further how to "write code" - might be a bit advanced for me!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

My "job," at least in part, is helping people learn how to make Outlook
dance to their tune, much of which involves programming to add features that
Outlook doesn't have built in. For your scenario, these pages might be
useful:

VBA Basics:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=21522&pg=1
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/vb.htm

Sender's address:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/getsenderaddy.htm

Working with incoming items:
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/code/zaphtml.htm

BTW, if you have a limited number of contacts that you want to use in this
fashion, you can do a lot with Rules Wizard rules: Make a rule for each
category and specify multiple "from person or distribution list" addresses
corresponding to the contacts in that category.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Thanks Sue. How helpful - is this your job? Anyway it sounds like that's

exactly what I need but I'll have to research a bit further how to "write
code" - might be a bit advanced for me!

 

[MT]

Thanks, will have a look at those and see how I go.