You can make email from important people automatically stand out in your Outlook mailbox with color coding. Here's how.

However, you can use Conditional Formatting in MS Outlook to color-code emails within a folder based on certain rules, giving a similar visual effect. Read Next: How to color code Outlook Calendar.

Email expert Itzy Sabo sets Microsoft Outlook to color-code all email addressed only to him blue, because those messages are more likely to be more important and require action from him.