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Creating Rules in Outlook
Rules in Microsoft Outlook are great for automatically performing actions on emails. You can do things like move, flag, or reply to specific messages without any manual work. To help you keep track of your growing inbox, we’ll show you how to create rules in Outlook.
Since you can create Outlook rules on Windows, Mac, and the web, we’ll cover setting them up on each platform. Note that available conditions and actions vary.
The healthiest set of conditions and actions for rules are in Outlook on Windows. To most effectively explain how to create a rule, we'll show you a few commonly used rules.