Automatic Formatting problem

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SeanD

For some reason I can't get Outlook inbox color
formatting to work the way I want. I'm trying to color
code my email based on my roles. To do this I need to
display email in a certain color depending on the email
account it comes in through. I would expect that I would
select "Organize" from the "Tools" menu, then
select "Using Colors" & "Automatic Formatting". I then
add a rule which I call "Personal Mail" and change the
Font color blue. Then I click on Condition, click on the
Advanced tab to create the following rule:

E-Mail Account is (exactly) (e-mail address removed)

The email address being the account I want color coded.
For some reason the effect I get is black text, it just
wont work. This also happens if I use "contains" rather
than "is (exactly)". Oddly enough, if I create a similar
rule based on the To field containing the email address,
it works great. Problem is, if it contains the name (Bill
Jones) rather than the email address ([email protected]) it
wont work. I even disabled all rules except this one to
verify there wasn't a conflict.

Any ideas why this wont work?
Thanks in advance,
SeanD
 
For some reason I can't get Outlook inbox color
formatting to work the way I want. I'm trying to color
code my email based on my roles. To do this I need to
display email in a certain color depending on the email
account it comes in through. I would expect that I would
select "Organize" from the "Tools" menu, then
select "Using Colors" & "Automatic Formatting". I then
add a rule which I call "Personal Mail" and change the
Font color blue. Then I click on Condition, click on the
Advanced tab to create the following rule:

E-Mail Account is (exactly) (e-mail address removed)

The email address being the account I want color coded.
For some reason the effect I get is black text, it just
wont work. This also happens if I use "contains" rather
than "is (exactly)". Oddly enough, if I create a similar
rule based on the To field containing the email address,
it works great. Problem is, if it contains the name (Bill
Jones) rather than the email address ([email protected]) it
wont work. I even disabled all rules except this one to
verify there wasn't a conflict.
Click to expand...
What happens if you just click on Organize > Using Colors, then just select
"Color messages sent to (type your email address)" and select the color you
want?
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Using your example, it works fine as long as the email
address is displayed in the To field. If it displays a
name, then it doesn't work.

As an example, Bill Jones has an an email address
(e-mail address removed). Email coming into through this account
can display "(e-mail address removed)", or it can display "Bill
Jones" depending on how the sender addressed it.

If you have 3 different email accounts, "Bill Jones" can
actually be 3 different email accounts. So you would wind
up with 4 colors - 3 email accounts + "Bill Jones" -
though only 3 accounts existed.

Thats why I tried to use the Email Account field in the
Advanced tab of Automatic Formatting. It would appear to
be straightforward, but I can't get it to work. I haven't
been able to turn anything up, except vague references to
it working. This is driving me nuts.
Sean
 
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