Either the sender didn’t color their font , or there is an issue with your settings. From all your comments and our experiences, it appears that HTML will not attending college is a case where the ________________ exceeds the monetary cost. have a consistent appearance between servers or programs. If that is the case, my idea of sending a test message to oneself won’t work, at least not reliably.

Unread”’. Some of my filters will mark messages as read because by nature they simply are not urgent; I know where to find them if I need to check. Personally I let my filters do their thing and then track down the unread messages, wherever they are, via View

To select a range of messages, hold down the Shift key. Above you can see I have highlighted the word “red” in the first sentence after already using the Command-B shortcut to bold a word and the Command-I shortcut to apply italics. Now, as to deleting it … well, on the receiving end as you’ve seen it can be problematic. Sometimes the email program that created it will do so by using an HTML table, which is very easy to accidentally delete all at once.

As long as the folders still go blue, or give some kind of indication about new mail. When I compose an email and type in a web or email address, the link does not highlight/underline in blue as it does in Outlook Express. Lyn, what an interesting post, and set of comments.

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Thankfully, for now it seems that we’ll get to keep that original red and avoid one more annoying technological update. Technology can be great, but it can also be a never-ending source of mystery. It seems like yesterday that we were outraged when Facebook forcibly migrated its users to Timeline, but for the past two years there have been rumors that Timeline could be ending. If you really wish to have active links in the message you are composing, use the Insert menu (or the Ctrl-L keyboard short cut).

There are three methods you can use to stop the links from turning blue, depending on if you want these links to look the same or different from the other links in your email. Hhmm, I don’t understand your comment about filters, because I do have a few custom filters. But the messages are still unread until I double-click on them, to open. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option. Even if the Gmail icon did permanently become blue, we’re pretty sure we’d get used to it after a while.