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How to set quick click category or flag in Outlook?

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After setting quick click for category or flag in Outlook, you can quickly mark emails or other Outlook items by the assigned color category or flag with just one click. Please browse the following tutorial for more details of setting quick click categories or flags in Outlook.

Set quick click category or flag in Outlook


Set quick click category or flag in Outlook

For setting quick click email category, please do as follows.

1. Go to an email folder, click on an email message to enable the "Categorize" function.

2. Then click "Categorize" > "Set Quick Click" in the "Tags" group under the "Home" tab.

the Set Quick Click button

3. Then the "Set Quick Click" dialog box pops up. Please select a category from the drop-down list, and then click the "OK" button.

the Set Quick Click dialog box

Note: If this is the first time for one color category you set the quick click, a "Rename Category" prompt box will pop up for you to rename the category. After renaming it, click the "OK" button to close the dialog box.

a Rename Category prompt box

4. Then when you click the email Category button in the mail list, it will be marked automatically with your assigned quick click color category.

your quick click color category

Note:

1. The quick click color category works for all folders under the same .pst file.


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