Clearing up a cluttered Inbox Part 2 – Out of Office Messages

In an earlier post, I talked about creating a rule to unclutter your Outlook inbox by moving Meeting Responses directly into another folder.  Today, I am proposing you take this effort one step further and do the same for Out of Office messages.

Follow these simple steps to create a rule that will automatically move Out of Office messages from your inbox to another folder.

1. Create a folder to hold your meeting responses. For me, I created a folder called .OOO (note the period at the beginning. That will move this folder to the top of my alphabetical folder list).

2. Next, from the Tools menu, select Rules and Alerts…

3. Click New. Then, click Move Messages with specific words in the subject to a folder.

 

4. In the Step 2 portion of the dialog box click Click Specific Words, type "Out of Office" (without the quotes).  Click Add, then, OK.

 

5. In the Step 2 portion of the dialog box click Click specified, find your .OOO folder created in step 1.  Then OK.

 

6. Click Finished, then OK.