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Cal Ratcliff

Microsoft Outlook Reminders

I recently upgraded to New Outlook and trying to determine how to do two things:

1) How do I set reminders for emails so that I know to follow up? I k now that I can flag them but would prefer to set reminders to pop up at a certain time.

2) I used to be able to color code calendar events (ie: birthdays as blue, holidays as green, medical appointments as red, etc....). Is that functionality stioll available or dod it get removed?

I am an Microsoft 365 subscriber.

Thank you!

***moved from Microsoft 365 and Office / Other / For home / Other***

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Hardyjoe.J - MSFT

Hello, Cal Ratcliff

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

Thanks for your feedback, I understand that you are having trouble on using your Outlook new.

I understand that you want to use the mail time reminder and calendar color change feature on Outlook new, after my testing, currently Outlook new does not have time reminder, the new Outlook is more like Outlook Web than classic Outlook so there may be some features different, I understand that you are a Microsoft 365 subscriber, if you want to use these two features, then it is recommended that you fall back to classic Outlook use.

Calendar color can change refer by this link:

Webmail - how to change default appointment colour - Microsoft Community

If you want to go back to the Outlook version, you can turn on Outlook new, find the button in the upper right corner and click on the back, if you don't have this button, you can also find help - go to Classic Outlook to go back to Classic Outlook to use.