How to assign different sounds for different senders in outlook

      


       When you receive an email from a certain contact, you can get a different “new email” sound than the default?

Yes, that is possible by using Outlook rule.

follow below steps:

   1. click on Tools then select Rules and Alerts

   2. New Rule

   3. In the section “Start from a blank rule” choose;
      Check messages when they arrive

   4. In the next screen you can select the conditions.
      In our case we select “from people or distribution list”

   5. In the bottom screen, click “people or distribution list” to select the address(es) from your Address Book.

   6. Click Next to go to the Actions screen

   7. Here select “play a sound”

   8. In the bottom screen click “a sound” to select a sound file from your hard drive
      (note that you should use a wav-file for this)

   9. Click next to advance to the next screen to set any exceptions when needed.

  10. Once you’ve done that (or don’t need that), click Next to give the rule a name.

  11. Click Finish and then OK to close the open windows.

These steps can be followed in windows XP and Windows 7.