
If you use " Always combine, hide labels", the icon is always yellow, otherwise, it's yellow when combined. However, you can pin the yellow icon to the Start screen, as well as to the Taskbar.Īll users: when Outlook is open, the open icon may be blue *unless* you configured the taskbar Properties to "combine". Note: this method won't change the icon on the Windows start screen. If you don't like these icons, you can use any icon you want. You can revert to the Outlook 2010 icon or use a yellow version of Outlook 2013 icon. Good news! You can change the icon used in the Outlook shortcut on your desktop or in the Taskbar. When pinned, the icons are always in the same position on the taskbar.)

(It helps if you pin the icons to the taskbar and don't place them next to each other. When you use large icons in the taskbar, the icons are about this size and you can't click the button based only on color. (And yes, a lot of people quickly click based on icon color.) Users need to pay a little more attention to the actual icon they can't quickly click on an icon based on color alone. It's blue, not yellow, and it looks like Word's icon, or Lync. Users don't like the new blue icon because it's not instantly recognizable as Outlook. Where did the yellow icon go for Outlook? It's confusing me everyday. Not everyone likes Outlook's new blue icon.
