Create "Urgent" symbol in Outlook

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I would like to see a new importance symbol in Outlook for urgency. The
current High Importance symbol (red exclamation point) only indicates that an
e-mail is important, but not necessarily urgent. I think the current icon
should be kept and, additionally, an urgency symbol (perhaps a small clock
icon or small clock with a superscripted little red excalamation point icon,
etc.). This will help those of us with large amounts of e-mail to determine
what is of a time sensitive nature and what is important (i.e. a general
update from the CEO), but not necessarily time sensitive.

Thank you.

-Dave

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Dave D said:
I would like to see a new importance symbol in Outlook for urgency.
The current High Importance symbol (red exclamation point) only
indicates that an e-mail is important, but not necessarily urgent. I
think the current icon should be kept and, additionally, an urgency
symbol (perhaps a small clock icon or small clock with a
superscripted little red excalamation point icon, etc.). This will
help those of us with large amounts of e-mail to determine what is of
a time sensitive nature and what is important (i.e. a general update
from the CEO), but not necessarily time sensitive.
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Not a bad idea but how would you convey this extra symbol to older versions
of Outlook that don't have the feature?
 
I'm not an application developer, but I would think that it could be
accomplished fairly simply with an Office or Outlook update. Since there are
no new concepts, just a new icon, one could be created that sits right next
to the Imortant/Low Priority icons that currently exist. You could increase
the complexity by integrating the Urgent icon with the Flag for Follow-Up
function (or prompting for enacting the Flag function), but that isn't
necessary.

-Dave
 
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