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Organize your Inbox in Outlook.com

Clean up your inbox and keep your email organized with automatic filtering and sorting, and by using tools on the command bar like Sweep, Archive, and Move to.

Sweep (delete)

Use Sweep to quickly delete unwanted email in your Inbox. Sweep gives you options to automatically delete all incoming email from a particular sender, to keep only the latest email, or to delete email older than 10 days.

  1.  Select an email message from the sender whose messages you want to delete.
  2.  On the menu bar, select Sweep.
  3.  Choose how you want to handle email messages from the sender you chose.
  4.  Select Sweep to perform the selected action.

Note: The Sweep option isn't available from the following folders: Junk EmailDraftsSent Items, and Deleted Items.

 

Archive

You can store email messages in your default Archive folder.

  1.  You can store email messages in your default Archive folder.
  2.  Select Archive.
  3.  To get to your Archive folder:

Under Folders, select Archive.

 

To restore an archived message back to its original folder, select it in the Archive folder, select Move to, and then select the folder or type the name of the folder that you want to move it to. See the next section for more information.

 Move to

Move to lets you move email messages to a specific folder. For example, you can move all email from a specific sender from your Inbox to any folder you choose.

  1.  Choose an email message from a specific sender to move all email received from that sender to another folder.
  2.  Select Move to > Move all email from ....
  3.  Select Move to <Select folder> and choose one of the available folders.
  4.  Select OK > Move all.

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