Entourage-new message color

Learning Entourage on my new computer. Have set new messages to appear
in red; previously read messages to be blue. I keep receiving green,
pink and black new messages. Makes it hard to know what I need to
read. Can anyone help?

Daiya
Fri Jan 27 11:01:05 CST 2006

On 1/27/06 8:24 AM, "wbain@penworld.com" wrote:

> Learning Entourage on my new computer. Have set new messages to appear
> in red; previously read messages to be blue. I keep receiving green,
> pink and black new messages. Makes it hard to know what I need to
> read. Can anyone help?
>

Messages from contacts in your address book show up in the color of the
category that is assigned to those contacts. I would assume that is what is
going on here.

If you *also* check the box for unread messages to be bold, then they will
be colored bold so that you know to read them.

If that doesn't solve it, be sure to state OS and application version so
that any additional advice will be accurate.

I would submit that using the bold/plain distinction for unread/read might
be a better compromise than not using categories in the address book, though
I suppose that would also work. :)

Michel
Fri Jan 27 11:27:35 CST 2006

On 27.01.06 17:01, in article BFFF91D1.5DCBA%daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID,
"Daiya Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>
> I would submit that using the bold/plain distinction for unread/read might
> be a better compromise than not using categories in the address book, though
> I suppose that would also work. :)

There's one other option, which can be found in the Address Book pane of the
Preferences window. At the bottom of the window, there's an option which
reads "Automatically match message categories to senders' categories." If
that option is switched off, the messages will not be assigned to the
senders' categories and will be shown in the default read/unread colours.

Daiya
Fri Jan 27 17:57:08 CST 2006

On 1/27/06 9:27 AM, "Michel Bintener" wrote:

> On 27.01.06 17:01, in article BFFF91D1.5DCBA%daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID,
> "Daiya Mitchell" <daiyaNOSPAM@mvps.org.INVALID> wrote:
>>
>> I would submit that using the bold/plain distinction for unread/read might
>> be a better compromise than not using categories in the address book, though
>> I suppose that would also work. :)
>
> There's one other option, which can be found in the Address Book pane of the
> Preferences window. At the bottom of the window, there's an option which
> reads "Automatically match message categories to senders' categories." If
> that option is switched off, the messages will not be assigned to the
> senders' categories and will be shown in the default read/unread colours.
>
Oops! A much better solution. Thanks, Michel.

DM