If you use your email address a lot and communicate a lot with people for work, school, or private messages, then your inbox might be full.
All these messages can make it difficult to find the ones you really need, so you may have decided to sort them into folders.
Our guide below will help you create folders in Outlook so you can start moving emails to new locations.
How to add a folder to Microsoft Outlook
- Open Outlook.
- Right click on your email address in the left column.
- Select the New Folder option.
- Enter a folder name and press Enter.
Our guide continues below with more information on how to create folders in Outlook, including images of the steps.
If you're using Google Docs to edit documents, check out this guide, Can I Create Folders in Google Docs, to learn how you can organize files there as well.
Your inbox can become difficult to sort and navigate when you receive a lot of emails. While searching can be an effective way to find the right message, folders are another way to stay organized.
Our tutorial below will show you how to create a new folder in Outlook 2013.
You can then use these new folders to manually sort emails by dragging them from your inbox, or you can create rules to allow this sorting to happen automatically.
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How to Create a New Folder in Outlook 2013 (Picture Guide)
The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Outlook 2013, but they will also work in newer versions of Outlook. Please note that if you are using IMAP for your email account and you create a new folder, that folder will also be created on your mail server.
Step 1: Open Outlook 2013.
Step 2: Right-click the email address on the left side of the window for which you want to create a new folder, then select the New Folder option.
Step 3: Type in a folder name, then hit Enter when you're done.
Now that you know how to create folders in Outlook, you can set up a useful organization system that will ultimately make it much easier for you to find emails based on the settings you use to filter those messages.
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