Mar 6 2006
Q: I receive so many emails every day and many of them I want to keep for a later follow-up, but it is a little hard for me to remember which ones.  Is there a way in Microsoft Outlook to help manage this?

A: Outlook has a handy feature to do exactly this, called the ‘Flag’.  Simply, the Flag feature will Flag any email with a priority color of your choice.  You can then prioritize each outstanding email at your leisure.

Here’s what you need to do:

In Outlook, in your Inbox:

1. Right Click on the email you want to Flag

2. Select ‘Follow up’ from the Pointer Menu

3. Select the color of the Flag you want to mark the email

When you are done

1 .Right Click on the email that you flagged

2. Select ‘Follow up’ from the Pointer Menu

3. Select ‘Clear Flag’

That’s it!