Rules A Short History Of What We Live By

Outlook uses Folders, while Gmail uses labels, to organize messages. Outlook uses Rules to sort your emails into folders and categories as they are delivered. Gmail uses filters. Outlook also has Filters, but in Outlook it is a way to sort the inbox or a folder. Flagging an email in Outlook is a lot like starring an email in Gmail.

Use rules to automatically perform specific actions on email that arrives in your inbox. For example, you can create rules that will change the importance level of messages as they come in, automatically move them to other folders, or delete them based on certain criteria. Select a tab option below for the version of Outlook you're using. What version of Outlook do I have?

Training: Use rules to organize your email in Outlook. Create a rule based on a message, or from a template. Watch this online video to learn how.

Client-side rules have at least one condition or action that uses an Outlook feature, and they don’t run until you log into classic Outlook for Windows with the account that you used to create the rule. For example, this is a client-only rule: From , flag message to In this example, you ask the rule to play a sound when you receive a message, and ...

Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook helps you create and review inbox rules using natural language. You can ask Copilot to set up rules that organize incoming email such as moving, categorizing, or deleting messages and quickly review which rules are active, without opening the Rules settings page.