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Cleaning up your mailbox

Cleaning up your mailbox

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Cleaning up your mailbox

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- Over time your mail file can get pretty large and unruly. Fortunately, Outlook has supplied us with some great tools to automate the clean up process. The first tool I want to show you is something called Conversation Clean Up. Here's a conversation I have, I'm going to click to expand it. I'm in Conversation View right now. I'm sure you've all seen this, this is a pretty lengthy conversation, in which people have quoted replies over time and started new threads. So I might not actually need to keep all these emails, because I'm sure the full conversation is already somewhere in this thread. Outlook gives us something called the Conversation Clean Up Tool. I can collapse the thread, and on the Home tab choose Clean Up. I have a choice here. I can choose Clean Up Conversation, which will only clean up the selected conversation, or if I want to do this for my entire inbox, I can choose Clean Up Folder, it's actually not just for my inbox, it's for whatever folder I happen to be in at…

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