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Using a Non-Standard Pipe Type in HydraCALC

A customer called today asking how to enter a 1″ black plastic underground pipe for the calc. This particular situation sounded unique enough that I did not tell him to add that pipe type to our database, as I would have if he expected to see this pipe type used repeatedly. I told him to…

Using the Hydratec Software Download Area

Hydratec uses ShareFile to distribute our software installs and updates. New customers, or those without access, must request access to be able to get at these downloads. Access is only available to customers with a Hydratec subscription or those on an update plan. You can access the download area and request access by picking the…

August 2006
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My co-worker George showed me this one:

In Outlook 2003 you can assign colors to email addresses so you can quickly tell whether the email came from a friend or foe (or your boss!)

In Outlook 2003 pick the Tools pull down then pick Organize. Pick Using Colors on the left. That’s about it – just type in contact names using commas to separate multiple contacts. I have emails from my coworkers come in Red, those from Family come in Green, etc. All unassigned names continue to come in Black.

One tip – you are limited to the number of names you type in to the name field, so if you have multiple co-workers with the same last name then use only their last name.

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One response to “Coloring Email Addresses”

  1. George Ali Blackburn Avatar

    Update: This also works for Outlook 2007, use the same menu.

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