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How to Create Rules to Organize Your Inbox Using Microsoft Outlook
By Carl Martens | March 12, 2008
This is a great time managment tip that will help you better organize your inbox by setting up rules for messages to be categorized and filed in specific folders. Microsoft Outlook and Mac’s version, Entourage both have this capability.
Instructions for Microsoft Outlook:
From the “Tools” menu select from the drop down, “Rules and Alerts…” (you may need to expand the drop down).
A box should appear titled, “Rules and Alerts” and should contain two tabs, “E-mail Rules” and “Manage Alerts”, from the “E-mail Rules” tab, click on “New Rule…”
A new box will appear titled, “Rules Wizard” follow the instructions provided to setup various rules to organize or stay up to date with your E-mails.
A demonstration is provided below (I apologize for the poor quality…it’s my first video!) and one will also be provided in class.
Topics: E-mail Concepts |
