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Outlook will not be able to resolve the email to any known name or email alias. The situation with any external email, or any email unknown within the company network is different. Note that string comparison is not case sensitive, no wildcards allowed, however partial names are allowed. So matching your company email against contents of "From:" field will never return any positive results. Only the actual names can be found in "From:" field.Ĭonditional formatting does simple matching of given strings against contents of given fields. When you look at "From:" field you will realize that your email address is simply not there. Click on the Strikethrough check box in the Font dialog box. Please be assured that any improvements in the product are based on users requirements. Although the design meets the most users needs, however it is still not perfect. You can simply check it by exporting the entire message to text format and opening it with your text editor. But the problem is that in the Keyconfig pane, the key combination is. I could confirm there is only 16 colors in Outlook 2013 Conditional Formatting feature by far. In your case it resolves to your name (won't be mentioning it in the post). This fits the pattern of many other features that are dimmed when not available. Also, the consistency helps users, who are familiar with the layout of the existing dialog. Within the company, Outlook will resolve known emails to email alias or actual names. Font format dialog tab, than to create one specifically for conditional formatting. This will not work for you with your company internal email addresses. How can I make it work with simple email addresses ? If I set the "FROM" field ( via pressing "From." and select myself from a list) - with my outlook NAME which is "Royi Namir" ( as opposed to specify my direct email) as in here :Īm I missing something here ? because it should work in both cases. Why don't I see the RED color in the work mail ?
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Ok so let's test it by sending work mail to myself : Roi's work emails sent to Roi's work ( i can send to myself) -> to be in red.Ĭurrently the settings are the default settings :.
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Roi's Gmail emails sent to my Roi's work -> to be in green.I also have Gmail account which is outlook is under a domain Enter the desired name for the rule and click Font. A new rule will be created with default name of Untitled.
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In the Conditional Formatting dialog add a new rule by clicking Add. In the Advanced View Settings dialog box, click Conditional Formatting. For the category, I can create a rule in Exchange inbox rule and push it to all mailboxes to use a category from existing categories (Orange category) in Outlook and color will be automatically associated.I have outlook 2010 at my work where my email there is : ( you could see the real email in the pic, since I don't want crawlers to scan it, I changed it here in the question). From Outlook follow these steps: Click on the View tab. It includes expansion effect along with a change in icon color. Or, highlight the email-row with a different font, bold and color. Virtualization helps with performance issues. Regarding conditional formatting, I want external emails to flagged by a new category (External-Email category with distinct color) and color. I can stop the Text from adding-up by exchange rule, but couldn't find a way to remove or delete it, Exchange rule does not have anything to do that. We don't want the prefix or the specific Text "External" to be part of reply email, so when someone would reply to any such email, when that email is being sent by Exchange, Exchange should remove/delete it from subject - this is because we want the email looks exactly as original to the recipients and not with any word added/modified into it. Its easy and good, except for one thing I couldn't figure out and for that's reason can't use it for all users. I can add a prefix like "EXTERNAL" in subject-line using Exchange rule, and in-fact I did it already as part of testing.