[Ham-Computers] Microsoft Outlook 2007 Question

[Robert Downs]

I think that it might have happened because my right little finger sometimes
depresses the right mouse button when I don't intend for it to.  But however
it happened, I have a problem with the display of received mail, and I have
literally spent hours trying to fix it.  

 

For longer than I can sometimes remember, whatever version of Outlook that
was on the machine (currently 2007 and WIN 10), I have had the default
display screen set so that when it was showing received email, there was a
tiny area at the right of the screen where I could left click and a red
checkmark (NOT a red flag) would appear.  If I quit the session and
restarted Outlook, all of the text on that line came up as red instead of
the normal black.  I used this to flag mail that I probably needed to do
something about.  And there are unfortunately many received emails that are
still red. Opening the email didn't and doesn't change this.  I had to click
again in the small area (on the check mark) and the text would change back
to black.  And the red checkmark, instead of disappearing, changed to a
hollow black check mark.

 

Sometime after 22:40 on 12 July I accidently did something (probably
right-clicked on something) and the column with the blank area or the red of
hollow black check marks disappeared.  I have spent most of the afternoon
trying to find the feature and turn it back on.  I had concentrated on View
(in the top main tool bar) /Current View/Customize Current View but I have
turned on or off every field on the list I think (because I have no idea
what the feature is called) with no luck.

 

Does anyone know what it's called and how to get it back?  All of the emails
that I had set to red are still showing up as red.  I just can't change them
back to black or change any black ones to red.  The one thing that I know is
that the feature is not what Outlook calls Flag Status.  That changes a gray
hollow flag to a red flag.  And does not change the color of the rest of the
line to red the next time that I start Outlook.

 

Robert Downs