Creating an Email Folder in Outlook Express

 

Do you get a lot of emails? Do you want to keep some or all of them, except the spam, of course?

Hopefully, you get email newsletters like my free Terry’s Computer Tips email newsletter.

Outlook Express, like almost every other email program, allows its users to create folders to use in storing new and old emails. You can create a folder to receive and store them, and create a message rule to automatically put new issues in the right folder.

In an article later in this issue, I’ll show how to create a Message Rule to automatically put new emails in the folders that you wish.

The first step, though, is to create the folder to hold the emails.

On the menu bar, select File, New, Folder or File, Folder, New — either takes you to the same dialog box.

Outlook Express - Create Folder
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Outlook Express - Create Folder
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The resulting Create Folder dialog box lets you do two things. First, you can enter the name for your new folder. I’ll call it "Terry’s Computer Tips."

Second, I need to select which existing folder will be the parent folder. I want it to be at the same heirarchy level as the Inbox, Outbox, etc, so I clicked on the Inbox’s parent — the Local Folders folder.

Then, I clicked OK.

Outlook Express - Create Folder
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Now, in the main Outlook Express window, we can see that we have a new folder called "Terry’s Computer Tips".

Outlook Express - Create Folder
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