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I have my Outlook for Mac inbox setup with the list of emails on the left and the reading pane on the right. When scrolling through the list of messages in the list on the left, in my inbox as well as messages stored in other folders, it is very difficult for me to tell which email is selected in the list. Many years ago, when a message was selected in the list it was highlighted in a deep blue color… Now it’s a very faint light blue color that is really hard for me to see (yes I do have some vision issues... but it's also so faint I have to imagine others have the same issue).
As a result, I frequently delete the wrong email etc. because I can't tell what is actually highlighted. Is there a way to change the default color of a highlighted message in the list, to make it easier to tell which message is highlighted? I tried messing around with the overall theme in the settings, and while the red theme made it a bit better I sort of hate the look of the other themes... so is there a way to only change of the highlighted message? If not, do you have any recommendations on how to avoid these mistakes?
Thanks for your help
Using older versions of Outlook for Mac in business environments
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Tengo el mismo problema. Me comuniqué con soporte técnico y esto aun no ha sido solucionado.
Es muy incómodo que no se resalte el mensaje.
Ojalá hagan esta mejora pronto.
Well, it works now, so I upvoted. Thanks!
Everyone, upvote and post your feedback about selected message highlight color here if you want to see this changed. Complaining here will do nothing, clearly. There are actually multiple open feedback requests for this same thing, so it's important you use the same one to get it to rise to the top. There is also another one to upvote and optionally comment on here. The most important thing is the upvotes, upvote both, the more upvotes, more likely Miscrosoft will no longer ignore.
Let's finally get Microsoft to do something about this, send to your coworkers, orgs etc! They need to upvote these and respond.
Thanks for the heads up Mark, I'll get the post updated, and thanks for the upvote! There are quite a few posts about this, just trying to consolidate the issue so that it hopefully finally gets Microsoft's attention one of these days.
The first link you provide seems to be to an issue that was removed or is otherwise an incorrect link. I upvoted your second link, though.