How to reset "Important" status of MS Outlook emails

 Create MS Outlook rules for "important" emails

Changing the priority of messages in Microsoft Outlook is a simple way to show people that their messages are really important and should be viewed asap. This is a great feature that is desperately needed, but not always.

Some of your contacts need to use the high priority flag. One way to prevent this is to create a rule that automatically lowers the importance of an email if you send it in MS Outlook with "high" importance.

It will not delete the email or make any other changes, except for lowering the importance from "high" to "moderate" like a normal message.

How to automatically lower the importance of an email & # 34; status

1. Open the File > Rules & Alerts menu. Some versions of Outlook have this version in the Tools menu.
2. On the Email Rules tab, click or tap the New Rule... button.
3. At the bottom of the Rules Wizard screen, in the Empty Rule from the Start section, select Apply rule to messages I receive .
4. Next click.
5. Check the box next to the person or public group and mark it as important .
6. In the Step 2 section at the bottom of this window , select People or Public Groups and select the contacts you want this rule to apply to. Use the From -> button to insert that address book into the text box at the bottom of the rule address window.
   1. You can select a contact from the address book or manually enter an email address . If entering manually, separate them with semicolons (;).
7. Select OK to save that address as the address you want the rule to apply to .
8. Rules Wizard screen ( in Step 2) , return the severity click or tap, and then from the drop-down menu High , select. The type of email to see in the rule.

1. OK (OK) , click / tap the pressing importance , save and close the window.
2. Press the Next> button to move to the next screen.
3. Importance to display a check mark next to to to display .
4. In the Step 2 section again select Importance .
5. Make sure Normal is selected in the menu and select OK to save. This way you can get all 'high' emails back to 'normal' from your contacts in step 6.
6. Click Next > in this window or click again in the next window.
7. Name the new rule something memorable, such as Reset Importance .
8. Click/tap the Finish button to save the rule and exit the Rule Wizard screen.
9. Select the OK button to exit the Rules and Alerts window and return to Outlook .