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dylane
I'm working on migrating to Outlook 2007, but one of my favorite features
from OL2003, colored flags has disappeared to be replaced by color
categories, and I'm trying to figure out how to get the same kind of easy
functionality back.
In OL2003 I use colors to indicate priority level, red means get done before
the end of the day, blue is important but I have a couple of days to get it
done, all the way down to purple for this is interesting if you don't have
anything else to do. Obviously these priority levels are not static, what I
originally have a week to do, at some point needs to be done by the end of
the day. One of the great things about colored flags in my mind is that it
takes just two clicks to add a color to a flag, and another two clicks to
change to another color. I also love by default how there is the For Follow
Up folder that automatically shows all flagged items by priority level no
matter what folder they are in
So in OL2007 I seem to have a few problems replicating this workflow in the
same easy manner. My biggest problem is I don't see a one step process to
change the color associated with a message. When I try to change the color
associated with a message it instead adds a new category to the message, and
then I need to manually remove the first category? 2nd, is that I don't see
a way to add a reminder to a message without flagging it, and the items I
want reminders for are usually at least a few days away, and so I don't want
the sense of urgency that is associated with a red flag.
Any suggestions on how to work around these issues? Or am I perhaps missing
something about how this works?
Thanks,
Dylan
from OL2003, colored flags has disappeared to be replaced by color
categories, and I'm trying to figure out how to get the same kind of easy
functionality back.
In OL2003 I use colors to indicate priority level, red means get done before
the end of the day, blue is important but I have a couple of days to get it
done, all the way down to purple for this is interesting if you don't have
anything else to do. Obviously these priority levels are not static, what I
originally have a week to do, at some point needs to be done by the end of
the day. One of the great things about colored flags in my mind is that it
takes just two clicks to add a color to a flag, and another two clicks to
change to another color. I also love by default how there is the For Follow
Up folder that automatically shows all flagged items by priority level no
matter what folder they are in
So in OL2007 I seem to have a few problems replicating this workflow in the
same easy manner. My biggest problem is I don't see a one step process to
change the color associated with a message. When I try to change the color
associated with a message it instead adds a new category to the message, and
then I need to manually remove the first category? 2nd, is that I don't see
a way to add a reminder to a message without flagging it, and the items I
want reminders for are usually at least a few days away, and so I don't want
the sense of urgency that is associated with a red flag.
Any suggestions on how to work around these issues? Or am I perhaps missing
something about how this works?
Thanks,
Dylan