How to Flag Message in Outlook Online

Have you tried marking important messages in Outlook? Then this is the correct article to see how to flag messages or emails in Microsoft Outlook Online.

A flagged message is to point out an important message to reply to later or give some special priority to the particular message. Flagging messages in Outlook Online, or any email client serves as a way to manage and prioritize our email communication.

To follow-up tracking, deadlines, and searching we are using the option flag message. Let’s start to see how to use this function in Microsoft Outlook Online.

Flag Message in Desktop Outlook Online

Here is how to use a flag message in the Microsoft Outlook desktop application.

Step-1: Open the Microsoft Outlook desktop application.

Step-2: On the home page of the Outlook desktop application, all the emails will have a flag icon if we keep the cursor near the mail. (See the screenshot for clarity).

Step-3: Click on the flag icon to mark important messages in Outlook. Once we click the flag icon, it will turn into red color which means that mail is marked as important.

This is one method to mark the flag message in desktop Outlook Online.

How to See Flagged Messages in Desktop Outlook Online

Before we have seen how to flag a message. Follow the below steps to see how to see a flagged message in Outlook Online.

Step-1: Open the Microsoft Outlook desktop application.

Step-2: On the home page, click the filter icon and also click the Flagged option to see all the flagged messages in Outlook Online.

Step-3: Now all the flagged messages will appear in the Outlook Online desktop application.

This is the method to see the flagged message in the desktop Outlook online application.

Remove Flagged Message in Desktop Outlook Web Application

Method -1

Here is how to remove the flagged message in the Microsoft Outlook Online Web application.

Step-1: Open the Microsoft Outlook desktop application.

Step-2: On the home page of the Microsoft Outlook desktop application, just click the flag icon in the email to remove from the flagged list

Step-3: Once we click the Flag icon, it will remove from the flagged list in the Outlook Online application. Now instead of a flag icon, a tickmark will be visible.

This is one method to remove flagged messages in the Outlook Online desktop application.

Method -2

Step-1: Open the Microsoft Outlook desktop application.

Step-2: On the home page of the Microsoft Outlook desktop application, just click the particular flagged message and also click the Flag icon at the top, simultaneously click Clear Flag.

Step-3: Once we click this, our message will be removed from the flagged item. For the same message, now flag icon is removed(see the screenshot for clarity).

This is another method to remove the flagged message in Microsoft Outlook Online.

Flag Message in Outlook Web Application

Now, we will see how to flag messages in the Microsoft Outlook Web application.

Step-1: Open Microsoft Outlook in a browser such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer.

Step-2: Click the Tickmark or sometimes the flag icon is also visible to mark the important message in the Microsoft Outlook Online application.

Step-3: Once you click, the message will be moved to the flag item. The flag icon will turn red in the Outlook Online web application.

By doing this in the Microsoft Outlook web application, we can flag a particular message or Email.

How to See Flagged Messages in Outlook Web Application

Once the message is flagged then we will check how to see the flagged message in the Microsoft Outlook Web application.

Step-1: Open Microsoft Outlook from a browser such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer.

Step-2: In this web application, unlike the desktop application, we can see the flagged message directly.

This is the method to see flagged message in the Outlook Online web application.

Remove Flagged Message in Outlook Online Web Application

Method-1

Once our work is over, we can remove the flagged message in the Outlook Online Web application. Follow the steps to do so.

Step-1: Open Microsoft Outlook from a browser such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer.

Step-2: Click near the flag icon in the email to remove the flagged message in the Outlook web application.

Step-3: Once you click, the flag icon will be removed and instead tickmark will be visible. It shows that the message we flagged will be removed. The same message is now displayed with a tickmark. (See screenshot for clarity)

This is the method to remove flagged message in the Outlook Online Web application.

Method-2

Here is another method to remove the flag message in the Microsoft Outlook Online Web application.

Step-1: Open Microsoft Outlook from a browser such as Chrome, Safari, or Internet Explorer.

Step-2: Click the flagged message you want to remove, then simultaneously click the Flag icon at the top and click Clear flag.

Step-3: As usual, the flagged message will be removed from the Microsoft Outlook online web application.

This is another method to remove the flagged message in the Outlook Online application.

How to Group Flagged Messages in Outlook Online Desktop Application

Let’s see how to group flagged messages in Microsoft Outlook Online.

Step-1: Open Microsoft Outlook in a desktop application.

Step-2: Click View and simultaneously click View Settings.. to group the flagged message in the Outlook Online desktop application.

Step-3: Click Group By… and click OK

Step-4: Now Group By page will appear. Click Flag Status under the Group items by and choose either Ascending or Descending based on your choice, Make sure to uncheck Automatically Group according to arrangement then click OK.

Step-5: Once we click Descending all the flagged messages will be in descending order in the Microsoft Outlook Online desktop application.

This is how we have to group flagged messages in the Outlook Online desktop application.

Conclusion

From this, we have learned how to create a flag message in Microsoft Outlook Online. In addition to this, I have explained how to see flag messages and how to remove flag messages in Outlook Online.

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