Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Controlling Message Priority and Other Options

Word and Outlook give you extensive control over your messages. For example, you can mark a message with high or low importance; set message flags that help you follow up on your messages; and request delivery receipts. In the following sections, we review the options you're most likely to need as you create email messages with Word.

Setting the Importance of Your Message

Some messages are more important than others. To tell your recipient that a message is unusually important, click the Importance: High button. On those rare occasions when you know that a message can take low priority, click the Importance: Low toolbar button.

Setting Message Flags

To create a message flag that reminds you (in Microsoft ...