We all receive a lot of email every day. Creating a series of rules in Microsoft Outlook 2007 can help you better organize your inbox. This tip gives examples of different Outlook rules and shows how easy they are to create. Users often belong to different group email distribution lists, which can clutter mailboxes with low-priority messages. Outlook 2007 allows you to create a special folder and a rule that automatically reroutes the messages to it. Another Outlook rule will color-code important messages so that they stand out from spam in your inbox.
Creating these Outlook rules is easy; however, you have to enter a product key to enable all options associated with rules. To create a new rule, choose the Rules and Alerts option from the Tools menu to display the dialog box (Figure 1).