Flagged emails whose flag remains un-cleared once their due date is past are marked in red in both email folders and on the Outlook 2007 To-Do bar.
Notice how the email we just flagged was placed at the top of the task list (To-Do bar sorted with most recent items first) the flagged message, with subject displayed, is in black, because the due date is in the future. Outlook will open the same Custom dialog pictured in the screenshot above, and let you set the reminder manually: note that the reminder was automatically checked, and set to the date corresponding to the email flag's due date. For other, pre-defined flags, you can simply manually attach the reminder the same way you added a flag: click on Follow Up, and choose " Add Reminder".
When creating a custom flag for an email, Outlook 2007 lets you attach a reminder to the email directly from the Custom dialog. To select a particular due date for the flagged email, Outlook 2007 provides the Custom entry: clicking on Custom will open the following dialog, which lets you customize the flag value ( Follow up, No response necessary, etc.), the Start Date, Due Date, and optional reminder: by default, the email is flagged for yourself. Choosing No Date will flag the email without specific date, which means that these emails will be visible inside the To-Do bar, and marked with a flag in their respective folder, but always placed at the bottom when you sort your To-Do bar by due date. The time spans in for email follow up will determine when Outlook 2007 marks these emails in red in the To-Do bar: Today, Tomorrow, This Week, and Next Week. It is a button-menu combo, as indicated by the down arrow:Ĭlick on the Follow Up button with the giant flag icon: the menu reveals a list of built-in time spans which will be used by the Outlook 2007 To-Do bar. To flag the email you are composing, look at the Options section of the ribbon (on the Message tab, selected by default). Outlook 2007 lets you flag and attach a reminder to an email you are currently composing (which includes brand new emails, email replies, and email forwards). Flag a new email with or without reminder