I could easily have missed something right in front of my face, but I presumed that Outlook would naturally highlight a parent folder if a sub, or child, folder was allocated a new incoming email by rules. Too many times have I missed noticing the new email until I expanded the parent folder only then to notice that one of its sub-folders had a new email in it. Is there an easy way to alter this behavior so any parent folder that is above a child folder with an unread email will be highlighted?

I understand that since the parent folder can also be allocated emails itself MS probably chose not to have the confusion in notification, but I rather be confused and hunt down the reason than be blissfully ignorant.



Thank-you!

Add the folders/sub folders that you redirect mail to to Outlook Today and start Outlook in Outlook Today. You can then see at a glance which folders have new messages.

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Thank-you!

The issues I would be running into are:

1. I pretty much always have Outlook open and running, 24/7 as they say,
2. I have enough sub-folders to take up two screen heights, and
3. I am working with two exchange accounts.

I am now wondering if there might be a vba solution, for obviously if there was a simple setting then someone with your knowledge would have mentioned it also right away-