How To: Create Rules to Sort Your Email in Outlook

Summary

Learn how to create Outlook rules that automatically move, flag, or forward email.

Body

Learn how to create a rule that automatically sorts incoming email, such as moving messages from a sender into a folder.

These steps are for Outlook on the web (outlook.northcentral.edu) and the new Outlook for Windows, which look and work the same.

From a message

1

Right-click a message

Right-click an email you want to sort, then select Rules, then Create rule.

2

Choose the folder

Pick the folder these messages should go to, then select OK.

From settings

1

Open rules

Select Settings (the gear icon), then Mail, then Rules.

2

Add a rule

Select Add new rule, name it, and choose a condition and an action.

3

Save

Select Save. Rules run on new mail as it arrives.

Get help

Submit a request through the Microsoft Office 365 E-mail & Calendar service.

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Article ID: 72349
Created
Wed 2/20/19 8:05 PM
Modified
Sun 10/18/26 7:04 PM
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