In Outlook 2013, the "Flag" column displays unflagged emails differently in the Single-Line layout & the Compact layout.

• In the Compact layout, an unflagged email shows no flag image at all.
• In the Single-Line layout, an unflagged email shows a grey flag.

Problem

The single-line layout is hard to read as the red flag does not stand out from the grey ones. (I am colour blind & so the red colour isn't a strong enough visual signal).

Is there any way to either make unflagged emails show no flag (preferred) or change the colours used for flagged emails?

Example screenshots:

Single Line layout  (Only the top email is flagged)

Compact Layout (the same emails as before are being shown):

P.S.

This issue was raised on the 2013-preview forum but the MVP that responded didn't seem to be aware of the different behaviour between the 2 layouts & so was confused.

There is no way to only hide the grey color flag icon in single-line layout by far, except that you hide the whole colume. Sorry.

Cheers,
Tony Chen
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• Marked as answer by Didsbury Red Wednesday, September 18, 2013 8:29 AM

Well, that's annoying.

Agreed, they tamed down all the colors in 2013 and filled in the flag, in Outlook 2010 it was just the outline of a flag so it was much easier for us color blind users to see, now it is practically unusable.

Fix it Microsoft.