How to automatically bold or not bold unread messages in Outlook?

Please follow the steps below to configure view settings to bold or not bold all unread messages automatically in a mail folder in Outlook.

1. In the "Mail" view, click to open the mail folder where you want to bold or not bold unread messages, and click "View" > "View Settings".

2. In the opening Advanced View Settings dialog box, click the "Conditional Formatting" button.

3. Now it opens the Conditional Formatting dialog box. Click to highlight the "Unread messages" in the "Rules for this view" list box, and click the "Font" button. See screenshot:

4. The Font dialog box comes out. Select "Bold" or "Bold Italic" from the "Font style" list box, and specify other formatting as needed.
Note: For not bolding all unread messages automatically, please select "Regular" from the "Font style" list box.

5. Click the "OK" buttons successively to close all dialog boxes.
And now all unread messages are bolded (or not bolded) automatically in the selected mail folder.

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