If you receive a lot of mails each day, it can be quite handy to see immediately if a mail was sent to you directly, or if you’re just on the CC list.
In Outlook you set this up like this.
1. Make sure you’re looking at your Inbox.
2. Use the main menu to select Tools | Organize. The “Ways to Organize Inbox” window appears above the list with mails.
3. At the left side you’ll see three options, click “Using Colors”.
4. At the top right corner in that window you’ll find a button called “Automatic Formatting…”. Press that button to open the following dialog:
5. Press the Add button to create a new rule.
6. Name this new rule, for instance "Only CC":
7. Press the Condition button to display this dialog:
8. Check the box before “Where I am”
9. Right next to that text, select “on the CC line with other people”
(Don’t worry, it will also work if you’re the only one on the CC line.)
10. Press the OK button.
Now that we have told Outlook which mails have our interest, we just have to specify the font that we’d like to use for these mails.
11. Press the Font button and select the font, style and color that you’d like to use for all mails in which you are CC’d.
12. Press the OK button to close the Font dialog.
13. Press the OK button to close the Automatic Formatting dialog.
14. Select Tools | Organize from the main menu to hide the “Ways to Organize Inbox” window again.
Now that this is done, any mail on which you are CC’d will be easily recognized in your inbox. This makes it a little bit easier to sift through your incoming mails.
Enjoy!
