Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Organizing Your Outlook Items Effectively

It’s far too easy to get swamped in e-mail, but you can make it less of a probability if you learn to use the options that Outlook 2007 offers to help you stay organized. Here are a few tips to get you started:

• Clean out your inbox every day. There is a very real psychological boost when you can leave your office at the end of the day with your Inbox empty—and it’s a pretty nice way to start your morning too. A habitually empty Inbox also means that any mail that is in the Inbox is still unread, so it’s easy to tell what you still need to read.

• Handle each e-mail message only once. Many time management systems share a similar mantra regarding handling each e-mail message exactly once. Open it, read it, decide ...