Comments on: Disable Annoying Outlook 3 BEEP Notification for High Importance Emails

By: flare output

flare output — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:33:22 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you! That has annoyed me for so long.

By: Suzanne MacArthur

Suzanne MacArthur — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:35:17 +0000

6.26.2008
I have Windows XP with Outlook 2007 where Tools/ViewMail Options is not available.
The solution for this is configuration is:
Tools/Options/Preferences Tab/EMail Options…/Message Handling/Advanced Email Options…/When New Items Arrive In My Inbox/Deselect “Play A Sound”.

Hope this helps.
Suzanne

By: Mrq

Mrq — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:59:36 +0000

Thanks a lot!!! This was really annoying, and MS Help was no help at all…

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:48:26 +0000

@Anthony - Your welcome! I’m glad the article helped you out!

By: Anthony Lee

Anthony Lee — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:04:27 +0000

Thanks for the groove now Mr.Groove.

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:49:32 +0000

@ Gene - Welcome to the site!

If I understand your question correct, there is no "Setting" in Outlook 2003 or 2007 to disable the "High Importance" attribute assigned to emails however, there is a simple way to easily remove the High Importance attribute to emails you receive.

Simple create a new Outlook Rule - Click - Tools, Rules and Alerts, New Rule.
From there create a new rule that looks like the following:

Apply this rule after the message arrives:
marked as "High Importance"
mark it as "Normal Importance"

Hope that helps!

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:42:54 +0000

Anyway to disable the high importance option all together?

By: MrGroove

MrGroove — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:00:04 +0000

Ouch!

Glad the article helped out! Welcome to the site Bryce! Thanks for the comment!

By: Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:08:04 +0000

Thanks for this. I have been trying to figure this one out for a while. It really hurts your ears when you have headphones plugged into the PC/Laptop and have them on your ears. Notification now turned off.