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In Outlook 2013, you can choose from three importance levels: Low, Normal, or High. Some messages are more important than others. The momentous report that you're sending to your boss demands the kind of attention that wouldn't be appropriate for the wisecrack you send to your friend in the sales department. Setting the importance level to High tells the recipient that your message requires some serious attention.

While typing your message, select the Message tab in the Ribbon and click the arrow beside Tags.

While typing your message, select the Message tab in the Ribbon and click the arrow beside Tags.

The Properties dialog box appears. This dialog box enables you to define a number of optional qualities about your message.

Click the triangle beside the Importance box.

Click the triangle beside the Importance box.

A menu of choices drops down.

Choose Low, Normal, or High. Click the Close button (or press Esc) to close the Properties dialog box.

Choose Low, Normal, or High. Click the Close button (or press Esc) to close the Properties dialog box.

Usually Importance is set to Normal, so you don’t have to do anything. Putting a Low importance on your own messages seems silly, but you can also assign importance to messages received in your Inbox, to tell yourself which messages can be dealt with later, if at all.

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