Have you ever wondering how to give the important mail a unique color in Outlook? Or do you ever thought to Customize Outlook's Contact display? Just follow the tips below to customize your Outlook.
Tip 1. Customize Outlook Email Color
This is the simple way to have Outlook display messages from different people in different colors. After you customize the email color in Outlook, you care able to quick identify specific e-mail senders.
Just follow the steps:
- Select Organize from the Tools menu in Mail
- In the "Ways To Organize Inbox" window, click Using Colors on the left
- Enter the right name of the sender or the e-mail address
- Select a color you like
- Click "Apply Color" and close the window
Tip 2. Customize Outlook Contact Display
By default, Outlook sorts contacts by first names and then last names. If you think this is not efficient for you that you can't view all contact information, you can re-sort the contacts. Just click "By Company" but not a person's name.
Tip 3. Customize Outlook Calendar Workday Scope
Outlook enables you control over which workdays you display in your calendar.
Workweek calendar view displays the five days of the traditional business week. To include Saturday and Sunday in that view, go to "Options" from the "Tools" menu, and then click Calendar Options in the Calendar section. Choose the Sat and Sun check boxes.
Tip 4. Customize Outlook's Default Appointment Reminder
Simply use the Reminder drop-down list to change the default time of 15 minutes.
Tip 5. Customize Outlook's Default Window
Customize default Outlook window and let it display as you like when it launches.
Just follow the steps:
- Select Options from Tools menu
- Click the Other tab
- Click the Advanced Options button in the General section
- Click the Browse button in General section
- Select Folder dialog box, select the folder
- Click OK to finish
