Outlook® 2013 Absolute Beginner’s Guide

5. Managing Email

In This Chapter

• Organizing messages into folders

• Automating your Inbox with Quick Steps

• Sending incoming email to different folders for easy organizing

• Stopping junk email from reaching your Inbox

• Archiving old messages so they don’t languish in your mail folders

• Learning how to look for a message in a haystack

As your email messages start piling up, you eventually need to plan out ways to manage them or your Inbox is going to seem like it’s bursting at the seams. Thankfully, Outlook makes it easy to choose how you want to organize and store messages. In fact, this is where Outlook puts the word “manage” in personal information manager and kicks it into high gear.

Although it may be tempting to let messages turn ...