Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Run Rules on Existing Messages

A rule is generally created to work on a newly arrived message or a newly sent message. However, you can create rules to help you manage your existing messages as well. After you create your rule, you can run it on existing messages to save yourself from managing the messages manually.

To run a rule on existing messages, use the following steps:

1.	Select Tools, Rules and Alerts to display the Rules and Alerts dialog box shown previously in Figure 27.5.
2.	Select Run Rules Now to display Figure 27.14. Figure 27.14. You can run one or many rules manually.
3.	Choose one or more rules to run by checking the box next ...