Colour coding emails by sender - formatting disappears when filing under folders.

Question

In Outlook, I've set up conditional formatting for emails from certain senders to appear with a particular colour. 

This works fine for the inbox. However when I then file this email under a different folder, the colour-coding disappears and it all returns to black/blue text.

Do I really have to set up the same rule in EVERY SINGLE FOLDER, for EVERY SINGLE SENDER that I wish to colour code?! Surely there's an easier way - what am I missing?!

Thanks in advance!

LMaeT

Answer 1

Thank you for the update. The Conditional formatting rule only applies to the folders which use the same view. If you have a custom view, you may apply it to other folders by clicking View > Change View > Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders.

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Answer 2

You're most welcome! Glad to know that we were able to help you with your query. Should you have further questions, please let us know.

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Answer 3

Perfect, thank you! 

I knew there would be an easy fix, but I just couldn't figure it out via googling!

This has sorted it. 

Thanks!

Answer 4

Hi Jomel, 

I went to View - View Settings - Conditional Formatting - Add - Condition - entered the sender in the "from" box - clicked OK - Font - chose desired colour - clicked OK - clicked OK - clicked OK.

Answer 5

Hi LMaeT,

Thank you for raising this query to our attention. I hope you're having a great day!

For us to further understand and assist you with this, we would like to know the exact steps/categories you chose when you created the rule in Outlook. Also, this would help us replicate the issue here on our end.

We'll wait for your update.