Creating rules for your inbox

Creating rules lets outlook take automatic action when emails enter your inbox that meet certain conditions. One of the most common rules created in outlook is to move emails from your inbox to a separate folder. Rules can be used as a great way to keep your inbox organized.

1. Open your inbox and right click on a message.
2. In the menu that opens click on Rules and then Create Rule.
3. A create rule pop up box will open. At the top of the box, you can create a condition. At the bottom of the box, you can create an action that outlook will perform when your condition is met.
4. In the picture below the red box shows the adjustments you can make to the condition and the blue box shows the adjustments you can make to the action.
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6. Click on Advanced options for more conditions and actions. For example, if you wanted Outlook to automatically delete certain emails, mark emails as urgent, forward an email, etc.
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8. Once you set the condition and the action to perform click ok. Then a pop up will show letting you know the rule was created. Check the check box if you want outlook to run the rule for the current folder. Usually, you will. Then click ok.

Outlook will perform the action for all current emails in your inbox. In the future, outlook will complete the same rule for all emails meeting those same conditions.