Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Sharing Rules with Others

By default, Outlook 2007 stores server-side rules on the computer running Exchange Server and stores client-side rules on your local system. Regardless of where your message rules are stored, you can share them with others by exporting the rules to a file. You can then send the file as an e-mail attachment or place it on a network share (or a local share) to allow other users to access it. You can also export the rules to create a backup of them for safekeeping or in the event that you need to move your Outlook 2007 rules to a new computer, as explained in the next section.

Follow these steps to export your message rules to a file:

1. In Outlook 2007, choose Tools, Rules And Alerts.

2. In the Rules And Alerts dialog box, click ...