is there an easy way to mark message(s) as important?

[dirtycar74]

First of all, let me say I'm not sure which group section this should be
posted in, so accept my apologies if posted incorrectly. Now that that is
over, let's commence to my question:

I'm running Office 2007SB, and I recently decided that I want to use the
importance settings (not just on the sending side, but on the receiving side
- the receiver should be the one to determine the importance of an item just
as much as the sender, with out having to leave the item as unread or marked
for follow up).

Since leaving messages/items unread is potentially misleading (especially if
you tend to have lots of email like i do), and marking something for follow
up just clogs up the system if you actually use outlook to manage tasks, like
i do...

There has GOT to be an easy way to set the importance of messages AFTER they
have been recieved in Outlook...

I know I can manually go into the properties page for the specific message
and set the importance there, so there has got to be a way of adding that
option to the toolbar area...

someone? anyone? ideas?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

VBA would be a solution.

FWIW: I use categories to to mark such items since it offers more
flexibility. A high importance mail without follow up or direct impact is a
bit meaningless. It is more of an indication from the sender that you should
read it asap and then you can decide in which timeframe you should follow up
on it or follow up on it at all. I wouldn't recommend using the importance
of a message to bring structure in archived (as you've read it already)
messages.

 

[dirtycar74]

point well put. I didn't think about using categories until then. I think
that'll be better. thanks for the idea... -Dusty

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!

point well put. I didn't think about using categories until then. I
think
that'll be better. thanks for the idea... -Dusty