It’s not necessary, still it would be easy to know if the trick is working successfully after following the steps. Make sure you have at least one unread mail in your inbox. Step 1: Open Microsoft Outlook 2013 on your computer and navigate to View tab. Change Style of Unread Mails in Outlook 2013 Today I will show you how you can apply some color and font effects on unread mails in the preview pane and easily spot them without the need of keen observation.

After working for hours, when reading out emails itself looks tiring, categorizing them into unread and read using just the bold and regular font type respectively does not provide much of a help. However, I have been already missing the priority email service of Gmail and on top of that, spotting a new email is not easy on Outlook because of marginal formatting difference. I have never used Microsoft Outlook to handle my emails ever since I started using Gmail but the day I switched over to because of its minimalistic and simple interface, I have started using the Outlook 2013 desktop client on Windows as well.

Change gmail view to look like outlook