No, but you can use conditional formatting with Organize and Automatic
Formatting.
See
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/coloremail.htm
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"Dan" <dan@nospam..com> wrote in message
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> Using MS Outlook 2003 for work pc. Is there a way to alternate the row
> color for the message list pane? TIA, Dan