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Recently upgraded to Office 2016 for Mac. Each email message received includes a colorful circle in the message header with the initials of the sender. If the sender has a picture in their contacts then it displays their contact photo. I would like to format the messages both in preview pane and when open to remove this new feature.
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For those that are frustrated in trying to get rid of the colored dots in Office 2016 Contacts/Email, you can't. Here is the answer from Microsoft:
I understand however the dots are actually a system design so we may not able to modify them . In this case, we can send a feedback to our Engineer for this to be changed on the next updates.
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is no reason what-so-ever that I need to have a green circle the MC in it to tell me that this email is from Microsoft Community. Need way to hide these and contact pictures. Thanks
Could you upload a screen shot to check and help you.
The silly color circle even shows up in this post.
