#Outlook desktop alert size windows#

If I'm working with a user and something important happens, by the time I field three more phone calls and two help desk tickets, it may be way down in the Inbox or Unread folder by Most of them have rules set to send them to a certain folder and are deleted if not needed after X amount of time.Д«ut some things I need to have brought to my immediate attention. In IT, sometimes I get upwards of 300 legit messages - servers successfully or unsuccessfully backed up legitimate users logging in via VPN, people locked out of Windows, spam reports, printers out of paper, and equipment online, or failures, etc. I have a Search Folder for unread mail, but it's too full, and there are only SPECIFIC messages that I want in the Alerts window anyway. Search Folders won't work for many of us. Last part of March '19, another user checking in on this, smh (shaking my head for you non-texters). At least it will be here for others who may find it as the first result in Google (like I did), and to see that the responses so far ought But I realize this post alone won't likely get the attention fo the right people.

#Outlook desktop alert size windows#

I've not myself encountered any other Windows UI element No, the solution is that someone on the Outlook/Office/Windows team just needs to revisit whatever decision was made 20 years ago to use a UI element in that alert box that precludes its resizing. When something came in meeting some characteristics that would trigger the rule that fires the alert. Especially when one DOES have many folders and search folders, the whole point of the alerts feature is to be notified specifically To the respondent who recommended search folders, I'm a huge (huge) fan of those, but they are not the answer to this problem. I want to assess things based on that key from, subject, and date/time info (and the time I have at Perhaps Craig is in the same boat I am: just because I do see things in the alert window, I don't necessarily want to open each. Among those who do, many may have simplistic needs to simply open whateverД®mail appears in the alert. And of those who do, they may not setup such notifications for the rule (to cause that alert). I'm sure part of the problem is that that among all who use outlook, many don't use rules. It's truly a preposterous situation in 2017. If it was resizable, we could at least see all of the from address, subject line and date ofДЄn email alerted by a rule, but as it is we can see only an inch or two of each-regardless of one's monitor resolution. Like Craig, I am so frustrated with the tiny rule alert box. I'm really surprised to see both this problem and this question remaining unresolved, 5 years later.