Thanks for any help you are able to provide. Applies to: Outlook 2016 (Win), Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 Augby Diane Poremsky 39 Comments There is a filter option available that works with Views, Search folders, Advanced Find, and Automatic formatting or Conditional formatting. PS, i have 2 email accounts set up in outlook if that makes any difference. I have played around with adding variations of my name to the Advanced tab which works fine with the 'Where i am' tick box un-selected but the minute i turn it on again the formatting skips messages that aren't my exact display name. This will open the same Excel file in a different window. Open your Excel file, go to the View tab > Window group, and click the New Window button. To view them side by side, perform the following steps. Is there something i've missed or is this an error in the program? Sometimes, 2 sheets that you want to compare reside in the same workbook.
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If i change my User Name under account settings information then only those messages that are specifically sent to my email address are formatted - ie not John Smith. I assumed Outlook would base the selection on the underlying email address rather than the display name but that isn't the case here. Once we do that, we will get the drop-down list of all the available options under it. Go to the Home menu, under the Styles section, select Conditional Formatting. If the sender has simply typed my email address it is not formatted, not is it formatted if they have stored me as a contact with say Johnny or Jack Smith. Now for applying Conditional Formatting, first select the data and follow the same path as shown in example-1. Only emails received with exactly John Smith as the to field are formatted. Any help or ideas are welcome Its an on premise solution with CRM 2011, R3. Whenever I close or change the view the conditional formatting disappears.
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Imagine my email account was set up with as my email address and I tried pinning the views, and saving (filters) before and after setting the conditional formatting. failed, Timed Out, Extract Missing, aborted, Failure. In Search for the word(s): i have given keywords as shown below. These emails received from below specified email id (picture) only. It appears that if the sender has saved me as a contact and changed my display name it's not being recognised. I want to make a conditional formatting on my received emails for subject line only. The problem i'm having is it is not picking up all messages sent only to me. My issue is with conditional formatting and which field Outlook 2010 uses to identify an email sent only to me? I am familiar with conditional formatting and have set up a conditional format to colour all messages sent only to me using the 'where iĪm - the only person in the To box' tick box. I know this is not exactly a developers question but i have used MS answers and read everything i could find on the internet about it and still haven't sorted it out so am hoping someone here can clarify for me please.