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 ...

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