Organizing your Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a good email program. I’ve used quite a few in my time, and it may not be the best, but it has some great advantages. Here are some tips to organize your Microsoft Outlook. By the way, this first pass concerns only the Mail feature.

To delete more than one message at a time, use “Shift-Click” if they are next to each other, and “Ctrl-Click” if they are not.

You can sort messages by “To”, “From”, “Date”, etc. Just click on that heading. Click again to reverse the order (Z-A or reverse date) of the sort.

Folders are one way to keep your messsages organized. “New, Folder”.

Rules is a handy tool, fairly easy to use. Basically, rules tell Outlook what to do. Very useful for directing email messages to folders, or automatically deleting them, to give two examples.