Creating Email Rules Made Easy In Outlook 2010

Yesterday I reconfigured my laptop and got myself fresh install of Windows 7. First thing I want to do on my machine is to get set up with my email client which happens to be Microsoft Outlook. I have been using Outlook 2007 for quite some time. I realized that I have a beta testing invite for Office 2010 sitting in my inbox from Microsoft. So I decided to give it a spin.

Download and install of Office 2010 went smooth. That was a good start. Now came time to configure my gazillion email accounts in email client. Having subscribed lot of development and technology news groups I get few thousand emails and it is always a challenge to organize them appropriately. So I rely very heavily on rules in Outlook. I always disliked Rules wizard in Outlook. I have to go through so many steps to create a simple rule. Only thing I want is simple one click operation that will set up rule like "move email from X to folder Z all the time". So I was looking around for my tool bar to see where rules wizard is. So there was a change for me. Now this Rules button is available in Move group of tool bar buttons. But I saw a small arrow below the button. I clicked on it and I was just thrilled. There is what I have been looking for all the time... One click option to set simple rule. By click of one button I was able to set up a simple email move rule. You can see the simple steps as shown below.

• Find Move group of buttons in Outlook tool bar.

  

• Click on the arrow below Rule button and it will bring up a simple menu below it. And select you rule condition.

  

• Now select the folder where emails are to be moved. And you are done.

  

I could not ask for any thing more simple than this.