Managing mail in your Outlook inbox
Yesterday's Microsot Insider Update newsletter has a link to an online training exercise that offers 5 useful tips for managing your mail. The focus is mail you've elected to keep in your Inbox. I try not to use the Inbox as a storage area (see my recent series of posts on Getting Things Done) but the tips and techniques are useful even if you regularly empty your Inbox.
Microsoft Office Training: So that's how! Great Outlook features to organize your Inbox
Tame the chaos of your Inbox: Learn about five features in Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003 that will help you find and use the messages you've decided to keep there.
Length: 40-50 minutes
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Use colors to make specific messages stand out.
- Easily locate messages by changing the way they are arranged.
- Use flags to set your own priorities for how and when to follow up on messages.
- Organize messages into actual groups and virtual groups with folders and Search Folders.
- Get easy access to the folders you use most often by adding them to the Favorite Folders pane.