The conversation subjects (headers) in the message list here (Outlook
2003 on Vista) are coloured pale grey. When viewing a lot of messages
with unread mail the individual messages are, of course, bold black.
This makes the actual conversation subjects literally pale into
insignificance and very hard to scan quickly. Is there a way to change
the colour of the subject lines - at the very least to make them show in
bold black when all or part of the conversation is unread so they have
the same visual "weight" as the individual messages?

Regards,

Bob

You can change the font, etc of the subjects here while in that view: View
menu > Current View > Customize Current View > Conditional Formatting. You
may have to add a condition for 'read' mail items to control their
formatting.

"Bob Henson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:h7l8j6$3nj$(E-Mail Removed)...
> The conversation subjects (headers) in the message list here (Outlook 2003
> on Vista) are coloured pale grey. When viewing a lot of messages with
> unread mail the individual messages are, of course, bold black. This makes
> the actual conversation subjects literally pale into insignificance and
> very hard to scan quickly. Is there a way to change the colour of the
> subject lines - at the very least to make them show in bold black when all
> or part of the conversation is unread so they have the same visual
> "weight" as the individual messages?

That changes the MESSAGE Subject, Sender and Received headers, but not
the one I'm trying to change - which is the conversation header. I'll
try and recreate it here - the mail transport won't let me post a screen
grab and I'm not explaining myself well.

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^ Conversation Subject lines (2items)
This is the pale grey line
Bob Henson Conversation Subject etc. 2//9/2009
These two lines are either bold or normal etc.
Vince Averello Re: Conversation Subject et.c 2/9/2009
Depending whether or not they are read
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It's the top pale grey header that I want to change.

> Vince Averello" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:OFw$(E-Mail Removed):

> You can change the font, etc of the subjects here while in that view: View
> menu > Current View > Customize Current View > Conditional Formatting. You
> may have to add a condition for 'read' mail items to control their
> formatting.
>
> "Bob Henson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:h7l8j6$3nj$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > The conversation subjects (headers) in the message list here (Outlook 2003
> > on Vista) are coloured pale grey. When viewing a lot of messages with
> > unread mail the individual messages are, of course, bold black. This makes
> > the actual conversation subjects literally pale into insignificance and
> > very hard to scan quickly. Is there a way to change the colour of the
> > subject lines - at the very least to make them show in bold black when all
> > or part of the conversation is unread so they have the same visual
> > "weight" as the individual messages?

Regards,

Bob