A Faster Way to Redirect Email with Outlook Rules

Sometimes it seems like managing my Outlook inbox is my main job, and everything else I do is a distant second priority. After all, I get hundreds of emails a day, both from people I need to respond to and from mailing lists and newsgroups I'm subscribed to. I'd never be able to function without Outlook's rules, which automatically redirect messages to various folders for later action.

You might already know about the Rules and Alerts wizard in Outlook, but it's cumbersome to use if all you want to do is quickly configure a new rule to redirect some messages to a different folder. Instead, watch this week's Business Hacks video to see a faster and more efficient way.

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