Filtering emails in Outlook

Outlook offers several ways to filter emails. A filter lets you see only those messages that meet certain criteria. For example, you could pick a filter that lets you see only emails that have attachments or are unread.  Here's how it works.

On the Home tab, in the Find group, click Filter Email.

Click any of the filters to see only those emails that fit that category. For example, select This Week  to show time ranges and click Last Week to see only emails you received last week. 

 

To remove the filter, click Close Search, and your email view returns to normal--you can see all the emails in your inbox. 

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  • how to keep spamers at bay? even when added to block senders list, they're on for ever!!! can u suggest more ways in outlook? am using win7 & office2010-pro

    thnx & cheerz!

  • Hello--Check out Annik Stahl's blog post on controlling spam in Outlook, especially the section on Make the Junk Mail Filter work for you:

    blogs.office.com/.../hate-spam-three-ways-to-avoid-it.aspx

  • What Home tab?   The top of my mail page just has menu items Outlook, New, Reply, Delete, etc.

  • HI

  • how do i transfer my e mailaccount at hotmail to outlook?

  • I get an email for every Facebook message I receive and I'd like to seperate that from my regular email. I do have Facebook on my phone but I do not use it much. I'd rather scan the emails and see what I want to look at but other, more important email is getting lost in the volume.

    Would a filter work under these circumstances? How?

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