Back in January of 2019, Microsoft rolled out an update to the Windows The trouble is, a lot of people hated it, for various reasons. One is that if you used a yellow category assignment, that category color was now hidden in the Inbox. The other is that it was distracting for many people—too glaring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So six months later, in August of 2019, Microsoft rolled out an update to Outlook that added a setting in the Options section to turn off the yellow highlighting. But the setting never worked!<\/em> Even if you cleared the check box show below, the yellow highlighting did not go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Latest Outlook Update Fixes This<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Well, finally, a year later, Microsoft has fixed this bug. Now, if you install the latest Office Updates for Outlook, you’ll see that the check box does <\/em>work, and flagged mail is no longer highlighted once you check that box in Options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I actually like this yellow highlighting in the Inbox, so I don’t care about this fix. But my February 2019 blog article<\/a> first announcing that yellow highlighting feature got more comments than just about any article, all saying that they hated it. So the fix is in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have a subscription to Office 365 (now called Microsoft 365), and you have been regularly updating your desktop Outlook app, then here’s a recent change you might care about: the ability to turn off yellow highlighting of flagged … Continue reading
desktop Outlook app that added a yellow highlight to any item in the Inbox that you set a flag on. It looked like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/images\/highlight-flag.png\")
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