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Tip: To mark a message that you’ve read as an unread message, so that its name remains bolded, choose
Message→Mark as Unread (Shift-c-T), or Control-click the message’s name and choose Mark as Unread
from the contextual menu.
Here’s another timesaver: You can hide all the messages you’ve already read. Just
choose View→Unread Only (Shift-c-O). To bring the hidden messages back, choose
View→Unread Only again.
Icons in the message list
After you’ve received some messages in Entourage, you’ll notice that some of those
messages have icons at the left side of their list-view lines. These badges or flags give
you useful information about the messages:
• Links. A chain-link icon here (
) indicates that a message has been linked to
another message, calendar event, task, note, or the like. (See page 339 for more
on linking.)
• Online Status. An icon that looks like an emaciated folder (
) indicates that a
message has only been partially retrieved—a dead giveaway that you’ve turned
on the “Partially download” option described on page 325. A folder with a red X
through it (
) indicates that the message has been deleted from the server in
an online account (page 323). Finally, an icon with a red, downward-pointing
arrow indicates that the message will be fully downloaded the next time that you
connect (page 325).
• Status. The status column shows the status of particular ...