Show number of related messages left in your inbox and their subfolders

When I am processing an email in my inbox, I want to complete it and its related messages. Currently, Outlook 2007 only gives you the “Related” button and it works very slowly and poorly because Outlook needs to search the related emails in all folders.

  • Add a checkbox in Tools | Options “Show number of related messages left and their subfolders”
  • Add a red bar to alert “There are N related messages left and their subfolders”
Figure: Find related message

Figure: Find related message

Outlook /OWA should support templates

Anastasia, our accountant keeps a bunch of text documents on her desktop which she copies and pastes into emails. It would be a great feature if Outlook and OWA supported creating and inserting templates into new emails. If the new email UI had a drop down list to insert templates then this would make outlook a more powerful tool.

There are already some third party plugins that do this in Outlook:

But there are no tools to do this in OWA.