Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Running Rules Manually and in Specific Folders

Normally you use message rules to process messages when they arrive in your Inbox or are placed in the Sent Messages folder. However, you also can run rules manually at any time. Perhaps you have created a rule that you want to use periodically to clean out certain types of messages or move them to a specific folder. You don’t want the rule to operate every time you check mail; instead, you want to execute it only when you think it’s necessary. In this case, you can run the rule manually.

You might also want to run a rule manually when you need to run it in a folder other than the Inbox. For example, assume that you’ve deleted messages from a specific sender and now want to restore them, moving the ...