File an E-mail Message in a Folder

After you create a folder in Outlook, you can move e-mail messages into that folder, much the way you file papers in file folders to keep them organized.

File an E-mail Message in a Folder

1.
Right-click the e-mail message you want to file.
2.
Click Move to Folder. The Move Items dialog box appears.
3.
Click the folder into which you want to move the selected message.
4.
Click OK.

The message is removed from the message list.
5.
To verify that the message was moved, click the folder you chose in Step 3 in the folder list.

The message appears in the message list.

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