Outlook 2007 is the latest version of popular PIM application from Microsoft and comes bundled with Office 2007. This email client is versatile, powerful and is omni-present on 80 per cent of the desktops running Windows platform. Below are some
tips that will enable you to exploit its features in the best possible manner.

Colour Categories

Once you have hundreds of mails in your Inbox, sorting them using regular methods become a pain and that's when Color categories come handy. To set a colour category, click in the blank checkbox next to each mail under the Category column. A default colour will be set to the mail. To change this colour, right-click on a mail, click categories and choose a colour. Select a colour and left-click on all the mails you want to set the colour to.

To create shortcuts to colour categories, Right-click on a mail and choose Categorize> All Categories. Select the colours you'd like to use. Click on each of the colours, and choose a shortcut for each colour from the drop-down menu on the right. Now you can simply select one or more mails and use the shortcut you've chosen for the colour to assign the colour category to
the selection.