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Gmail's Priority Inbox is getting all the rave reviews these days. Users looking for a similar feature in Outlook 2010 will be disappointed to know that it doesn't exist. However, the Conditional Formatting feature in Office 2010 suite applications lets you apply formatting over user-defined rules or pre-defined conditions. In Outlook 2010, you can use this feature to highlight most important emails. Furthermore, it allows you to define the font family, font color and other styles for emails from specific senders. The applied conditional formatting rules checks all the emails from your mail folder and highlight the important emails as per the defined rule. Today we are covering a simple way of applying conditional formatting rule on a mail folder. This feature will help you quickly highlight the most important emails and conversations from a specific mail folder. Just like Priority Inbox feature, it makes it easy for you to identify the important emails when Outlook finishes the sync process. In what follows, we will explain how you can use the conditional formatting to create a rule for highlighting the important emails. Read More

Emails are prone to viruses and malwares and one can easily embed malicious code in them. Outlook provides an optimal way to prevent users and lessen the vulnerability by blocking some files’ formats which can easily get infected. This poses a question that what if you are sure of the sender and need to access blocked files. Code Two Attach Unblocker is an Outlook add-in which allows user to unblock list of file formats which are by default blocked. Read More

As far as build-in Outlook 2010 export feature is concerned, it severely lacks data migration in bulk. Considering this downside, Code Two Outlook Export is a small yet powerful add-in which lets you easily export Contact list, Email information (dispersed in columns), Calendars’ items, Notes, etc, in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format. Furthermore, it can exports all the data spread in different fields. To foster that, you can specify as many export fields as you want from pre-defined list and can create a customized field for holding required information. Read More

Even though, there are hundreds of Outlook add-ins & tools roaming around, pledging lots of boxed up features and functionality, but none stands as productive & pervasive as OutlookTools. The main purpose behind it is to provide full-featured Outlook support along with allowing customizations over Outlook advance settings under one hood. It encapsulates a multitude of options to make the Outlook optimize instantly without indulging yourself in complex operations & tweaking with registry keys. Read More

SyncML (Synchronization Markup Language) Outlook Client is a small but extremely useful Outlook add-in which provides smooth synchronization between Outlook items; Calendar, Tasks, Notes and importantly Contacts with SyncML server, such as, Funambol. Yes! it is designed solely for the Funambol server, letting you to sync the Outlook items with it seamlessly. Read More

To decide whether to disable Outlook Security alerts or keep them turned on is rather difficult, as they consistently informs us about potential security threats and risks. But these security alerts could really get annoying at times, when it starts popping-up with unwanted and superfluous security risks & threats. To cope up with this, Advance Outlook Security may provide you a better solution to deal with the situation. It is a small but extremely powerful add-in, solely built to replace default security alerts. In layman's term, it gets rid of annoying security alerts. Read More