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Organizing mail into folders

Organizing mail into folders

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Organizing mail into folders

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- If you find that your inbox is getting a bit unruly and there's simply to much email in there to handle well, you may be ready to start filling it into folders. You file an email into a folder when you aren't ready to delete it, but you absolutely don't want to see is in your inbox. To create a new folder, right click your inbox and select new folder. I can type to give it a name, I'll call this one 128 Main and hit the enter key. The folders been created and I can access it by clicking the triangle next to inbox. Now I can start moving mail into that folder and I do that by clicking and dragging with my mouse and letting go once I'm over the folder. I can click inside the folder and there's the email. I can also create sub-folders the same way. I'll right click on my folder, select new folder and it becomes a sub-folder of the one I just created. I'll give Leslie her own folder right inside my 128 Main folder. Now I can click to expand it. I can move more than one message inside a…

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