5 Outlook Hacks to Make Life Easier on You and Your Customers
Rules Rule
Outlook’s advanced rules attributes enable an even higher level of granularity when you need to differentiate messages with similar subjects, senders and so forth. Rules can keep your inbox free from messages that need a response to reduce a great deal of non-time intensive clutter. Check the folders when time allows or when you need specific reference material.
Message rules are an imperative feature for me. For regularly scheduled emails that contain report data that is not time sensitive, including those that don’t require a response, I configure rules to automatically move them to separate folders. — Jon Rosenson, COO of MSP 501er Expedient
Just follow the steps above and drill down as far as your heart desires. One warning: Getting too far in the weeds can be just as counterproductive. If you have so many subfolders and rules that you can’t remember what goes where, you might be spending just as much time hunting for emails as you would scrolling past them in your inbox.
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