It’s annoying when important emails from your boss get lost in a pile of new emails. You might search each time on the inbox, trying to find that particular mail. But there is another method of doing this without all the manual work. Since this is an automated process, it saves some time. Hence this helps you use that time for doing other productive works.
Although this article is about creating Rules that move your mails to the desired place based on the specified criteria, so in this article, let’s see how to create rules and automatically move certain emails to a folder in Outlook.
How to automatically Move Emails to a Folder in Outlook?
In order to use features like automatically move emails to a folder in Outlook, you need to create some rules. So, let’s see how to create Rules for the most recently used versions of Microsoft Outlook.
- First, open the mail from the sender you wish to move automatically.
- Open the Messages tab and click on Rules and then click on Create Rule.
- Select the criteria that should meet. For example, you can specify “Subject contains” and specify words that should match.
- Under “Do the following,” select “Move the item to folder” and select the folder to which you wish to move those emails to.
From now onwards, if you get emails from the sender meeting the criteria, this rule will automatically move the mail to the folder. Also, you can select apply his rules to existing mails in the inbox at the next prompt.
> Finally, specify the action to do, here. In this example I’m moving those emails to a folder (with the name Important).