Outlook Calendar Meeting Rules
If you want to automatically highlight multiple appointments if meeting specified criteria in an outlook calendar you can color code these appointments with conditional formatting as follows.
Outlook calendar meeting rules. In the calendar view select the calendar you will automatically highlight appointments and click view view settings. For many outlook users they tend to categorize their calendar appointments with different colors. I just want my events to be color coded based on key words entered in the description.
For example all the appointments with a word training in the subject line will be turned blue and all the appointments with words sales meeting will be turned green and so on. From an open appointment meeting or event look for the categorize button on the ribbon in the tags group. Use the exchange admin center to create direct to calendar mail flow rules in the eac go to mail flow rules.
Shift to the mail view and open a mail folder that you will filter meeting invitations and meeting updates from. In the box labeled step 1. On the e mail rules tab click new rule.
Filter meeting invitations updates with a rule. From the home ribbon in the move section click rules then click manage rules alerts. Type or paste the code into the module then create the rule with the run script action and select this script to decline a meeting replace olmeetingaccepted with olmeetingdeclined.
From your main calendar view right click the appointment meeting or event point to categorize and then click a color category. Open outlook s vba editor alt f11 expand microsoft office outlook objects then double click on thisoutlooksession. Select a template in the start from a blank rule section select apply rule on messages i receive.
Click new and then select create a new rule. A rule is also able to help you filter all meeting invitations and meeting updates from a specified mail folder to the other folder automatically in microsoft outlook. A rules wizard dialog box will open.