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Use Rules to Simplify Your Outlook Inbox

January 16th, 2008 @ 6:52 am

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Categories: Time-Savers

Tags: ABC Company, Inbox, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software

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Tired of your cluttered, overstuffed Outlook inbox? Productivity Cafe’s Susan Sabo says the path to inbox salvation lies in Outlook’s rules feature, which you can configure to automatically direct new mail to designated folders.

Consider: You could route mail from your boss to a Boss folder, mail from ABC Company to an ABC Company folder, and so on. Once you’ve configured your rules, only stray messages (those without rules assigned to them) will land in your inbox, thus keeping it relatively neat and tidy. Just make sure to be diligent about monitoring your newly created folders for new mail; most of us are programmed to watch only our inboxes.

See the post for complete instructions on creating e-mail rules. It’s quick and easy, and it could revolutionize your e-mail organization.

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    dbustell@...

    01/17/08 | Report as spam

    Exchange consideration

    Be aware that Outlook as a stand alone program can have an unlimited number of rules. However, if you use Exchange (2003 - I don't know about later versions) you are limited to a total of 32KB of rules. The exact number depends on the complexity of the rules; the more complex the rules, the fewer you can have.

    This was a rude and disappointing discovery for a few people when our shop went from POP to Exchange.

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    srivera@...

    01/18/08 | Report as spam

    RE: Use Rules to Simplify Your Outlook Inbox

    Separat folders are good for some emai, but creating search files does the same thing without except all email is still kept in your inbox. But you are able to view it just like a separate folder, by clicking on the search file you have set up.

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