New and Changed in Outlook 2016 Upgrading to Outlook 2016 from Outlook 2013 is easy and you’d probably need very little time to adjust yourself to it. In fact, if it wasn’t for the new default “colorful” theme, you’d hardly notice the upgrade to Outlook 2016 at first sight. When you start Outlook to check your e-mail, are you looking specifically for messages sent only to you? You can easily find them at a glance by color-coding.
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Anyone have any worthwhile work arounds for Microsoft Outlook 2016 no longer applying COLOR (contact category color) to incoming emails?! NOT having color coded emails (by the contact's category) is the deal breaker for Outlook and for that matter the full Office 365 Subscription, as FULL COLOR EMAILS were the killer feature of Entourage & Outlook over all other email apps! In previous versions we could instantly see WHO an email was from by its color (family, business, friends, projects, unknown, etc) and know instantly if that email needed to be viewed. The Mac Outlook 2016 method of using one color (blue) solely to highlight Read vs Unread is an interface and usability FAIL. Particularly with the volume of email we all get these days. The App's interface PRIORITY SHOULD BE to highlight and prioritize visibility of WHO an email is from NOT if it has been read or unread; which could still be done with the simple side bar or bolding.
OUTLOOK EMAIL COLOR SHOULD SOLELY REPRESENT THE SENDING CONTACT'S CATEGORY COLOR and hence the email's importance ( aka, should it be read, not has it been read). Microsoft had this right for a decade, why they would go with this homogenized failed interface now like every other email app on the market makes zero sense. For now it's back to Outlook 2011 (another five years and counting).