{"id":1808,"date":"2022-04-20T15:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T15:27:06","slug":"how-to-create-new-folders-in-outlook-to-organize-your-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/20\/how-to-create-new-folders-in-outlook-to-organize-your-email\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create New Folders in Outlook to Organize Your Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms-assets.tutsplus.com\/uploads\/users\/988\/posts\/30357\/image\/how-to-organize-outlook%20(2).jpg\" alt=\"See the source image\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Table of contents<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>How to Create a Mail Folder in Outlook<\/li>\n<li>Color-Code Messages Using Categories<\/li>\n<li>Create a New Folder in Outlook.com<\/li>\n<li>Create a subfolder in Outlook.com<\/li>\n<li>Utilization of Folders and Categories<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Create a Mail Folder in Outlook<\/h4>\n<p>To create a new folder in Outlook, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In Outlook Mail&#8217;s left navigation pane, select the Inbox folder.<\/li>\n<li>Right-click and choose &#8220;New Folder&#8221; from the context menu.<\/li>\n<li>In the box that appears, type a name for the folder.<\/li>\n<li>Press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>To create a subfolder, navigate to the folder in which you wish to create it and follow the instructions above.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Color-Code Messages Using Categories<\/h4>\n<p>To customize your Outlook category preferences, navigate to Home &gt; Categorize &gt; All Categories. You&#8217;ll be able to create, delete, and rename categories, as well as assign each category a shortcut key. Select a message in Outlook.com and then Categorize &gt; Manage categories. The Categories dialog box allows you to create or delete categories and specify whether they should appear in the Favorites list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To add a category color to an email, follow these steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>From the message list, open an email.<\/li>\n<li>In the Home tab&#8217;s Tags group, click Categorize.<\/li>\n<li>Select the category for the email. In the message list and the header of the opened email, a color indicator appears next to the email.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Alternatively:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right-click the email you wish to categorize in the message list.<\/li>\n<li>In the resulting menu, click Categorize.<\/li>\n<li>Select the category for the email. In the message list and the header of the opened email, a color indicator appears next to the message.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Is it possible for an email message to fall into more than one category? Multiple color codes can be applied to an email message.<\/p>\n<h4>Create a New Folder in Outlook.com<\/h4>\n<p>To create a new folder, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click on New folder. At the bottom of your folder list, you&#8217;ll find the New folder link. At the end of the folders list, a blank text box appears.<\/li>\n<li>Give the folder a name.<\/li>\n<li>Hit Enter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4>Create a subfolder in Outlook.com<\/h4>\n<p>To add a new folder as a subfolder to an existing Outlook.com folder, follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right-click the folder beneath which the new subfolder is to be created. Bear in mind that you should select items from the Folders list, not the Favorites list.<\/li>\n<li>From the context menu that appears, select Create new subfolder. Below the folder on which you right-clicked, a text box appears.<\/li>\n<li>Give the new folder a name.<\/li>\n<li>Enter the subfolder&#8217;s name to save it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The same procedure applies for creating deeper subfolders beneath any newly created subfolders. Simply repeat these four steps for each new subfolder. Additionally, you can drag a folder from the list and drop it on top of another folder to create a subfolder.<\/p>\n<h4>Utilization of Folders and Categories<\/h4>\n<p>Individual messages from your Inbox or any other folder can be dragged and dropped into the new folders you create to organize your email. In addition, you can right-click a message, select Move, and then select a folder to which you want to move the email.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you can create rules in Outlook to automatically route emails from specific senders to a folder or apply a category, eliminating the need to do so manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of contents How to Create a Mail Folder in Outlook Color-Code Messages Using Categories Create a New Folder in Outlook.com Create a subfolder in Outlook.com Utilization of Folders and Categories How to Create a Mail Folder in Outlook To create a new folder in Outlook, follow these steps: In Outlook Mail&#8217;s left navigation pane, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1809,"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lite16.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}