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Work Efficiently: The Three Best Tips to Manage Outlook Emails

By Achilles Hill | Last Updated

Outlook email receives dozens or even hundreds of messages every day. Some of them are junk emails, also called spam, which would take up inbox space and slow down your work efficiency. Part of them are work emails that you have to deal with. Accordingly, it is worth to take advantage of built-in features to better organize Outlook emails and begin to focus on more tasks. Refer to the following three best tips to manage Outlook emails.

Tip 1: Block an email sender to organize Outlook junk emails

Here are three ways you can automatically block junk emails that send from a single sender.

Way 1: Block sender under the Home tab

1. Select the junk email and click on Home tab;

2. In the Delete group, click the Junk icon and choose Block Sender.

home junk block sender

Way 2: Block sender by right-clicking menu

1. Choose the spam and right-click on it.

2. Navigate to Junk > Block Sender.

block sender by right click

Way 3: Choose the level of junk email protection you want

1. Under Home tab, click on Junk icon and select Junk E-mail Options;

junk email options

2. You can choose the level of junk email protection you want.

choose the level of junk email protection you want

Tip 2: Manage Outlook Emails by Creating Rules

If you want to manage emails in some specify conditions, you can create a rule for them.

1. In the Home tab, click on RulesCreate Rule.

2. Click on the target email, tick the condition checkbox of received emails and decide how to deal with these emails under "Do the following" section.

create rule outlook

Tip 3: Manage Outlook Emails by cleaning Inbox

In this part, you can clean Inbox emails by one-click. Though it can automatically remove redundance emails to the Deleted Items folder, there are some drawbacks: if it comes with attachments, you need to retrieve it from the trash folder.

1. Right-click on the Inbox folder and select Clean up Folder;

clean up folder

2. Click on Clean up Folder in the prompt;

cleanup prompt

3. Tap on OK to remove repetitive emails automatically.

cleanup conversation

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