Mark Pack » outlook http://www.markpack.org.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:55:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Colouring private calendar items in Outlook 2003 http://www.markpack.org.uk/2118/colouring-private-calendar-items-outlook-2003/ http://www.markpack.org.uk/2118/colouring-private-calendar-items-outlook-2003/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:10:27 +0000 Mark Pack http://www.markpack.org.uk/?p=2118 How do you make Private items in your Outlook 2003 calendar automatically appear in a different colour from other items? It’s easy to have items in different categories automatically appear in different colours, but the Private setting isn’t a category.

The answer is rather buried away, so here’s a note to help me remember in future and in case anyone else finds it useful:

Go to View / Arrange By / Current View / Customize Current View
Go to Automatic Formatting
It’s then the Sensitivity setting you need to select for your rule

Next question: why did Microsoft decide to bury this fairly obvious customisation so deep, and in particular call it “Sensitivity” rather than, oooh, “Private”, which is after all what the Calendar item screen calls it?

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