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Outlook mail Follow-up flag options are missing

In Outlook 2010, I am trying to flag a message in the folder pane. When I click on the Follow-up button (Home tab/Tags group), there are no options for this week, next week, add reminder,etc. as there were in Outlook 2007. Can't find any options that would control this. Any ideas?

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Diane Poremsky M365 MVP (slipstick.com)

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Sounds like you are using an IMAP account - the options are limited for imap because not all servers support the extra properties added by flags (and categories).

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MMegan

Found a workaround that isn't extremely elegant but it basically gets the job done.

First, create a Quick Step.
On the Home tab, in the Quick Steps group, click on Create New.
In the Choose an Action drop-down, click Create a task with attachment.
You can choose to create a shortcut key (at the bottom of the dialog box) if you'd like.
Once the Quick Step is created, it appears as "Create a task with attachment" in the Quick Step group on the Home tab for quick click-ability. Click it from an email and it brings up a task with the email attached.
The flags in the task window have all of the usual options (Tomorrow, Next Week, Custom, etc.) and reminders can be set.
Later, when the reminder pops up, double clicking on the email attached to the task opens the particular email.

I'm glad to have a way to quickly correlate an email with reminders. Hopefully this helps others.

Disclaimer: I am a fledgling in the database world yet try to help with creativity if not efficiency

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Thanks so much for figuring this out. If MS cared a whit about users, they would have provided this functionality.But no evidence of that.

Tip: use Create Task from Text of Message - then the task has the info from the message that you want.

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Yea, this seems to be a casualty of using IMAP. For an easier fix, just drag the email into a folder under "personal folders." Then you will be allowed to add alerts to flagged emails.

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Or drag it to tasks - that way the original stays in the imap folders.

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Thanks so much for that work around. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure how to get the flags working.

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Ah,, but dragging an e-mail from an IMAP server to the tasks area still does not allow you to pick anything other than the glaring red for a task due today. So far, it appears that the only viable alternative is the workaround offered MMegan. Thanks for your assistance young lady.

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If you drag it a folder in a Personal Folders file, you'll have all the flag options. Only the folders in the IMAP data file are limited to flag on/flag off.

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KenAtcherson

Thank you for this tip.

I have tried it and it works smoothly. It's not the flag option but it does accomplish what's missing in Outlook 2013 as I am a frequent user of flag reminders.

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Thank you took me two tries only because I didn't quite interpret your instructions correctly but worked for me too. Yeah.........

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