A helpful method to organize the "sea of emails" in your Inbox is to colour code the incoming mail by sender.

Assign different colours to different addresses/senders. Colour coding will highlight the email separating the priority messages.

1. From the Tools menu select Message Rules, Mail and click New
    

2. The New Mail Rule box opens
    

3. In the Select the Conditions for your rule section select Where the From line contains people
    

4. In the Select the Actions for your rule section select Highlight it with color
    

5. In the Rule Description box left-mouse click contains people

6. The Select People box will open

8. Click the Address Book button and select address(es) from your Address Book
   
   OR
   
   Type the email address and click the Add button
    

9. Click OK when all addresses have been selected for the new mail rule.
    

10. In the Rule Description of the New Mail Rule box left-mouse click color and the Select Color box will open. Select a colour and and click OK.

11. In the New Mail Rule box fill in name of Mail Rule and click OK twice to close boxes and save rule.
     

12. Incoming emails from the selected address(es) will be displayed in the selected colour.

Refer to Revising Mail Rules Tip for details on how to revise and delete rules.

To learn how to Colour Code in Outlook refer to tip on Colour Coding Inbox in Outlook.