Tip #4554 - Creating E-mail Folders
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Creating
E-mail Folders
Do you receive
countless e-mails on a daily basis? Are some of those e-mails interesting,
important or just something you would like to come back to later?
If so, wouldn't you like to categorize them, without having to mark
them as Old, Keep As New, Unmark, Unread, etc.? Or, what if you accidentally
deleted some of them? Or, even worse, lose them. I mean, who has time
to deal with all of that?!
Well, now you
can make new folders to manage and organize all of your e-mails. That
way, you won’t have to flood your Inbox and all your other folders
with uncategorized e-mail. Cool, huh?!
For instance,
I made a folder called "WorldStart" for all of their articles
and updates. I put all of the articles and newsletters I receive from
WorldStart in that folder. That way, I don’t have to go searching
for them in all of my other e-mail folders. I can go right to that
folder and find everything I need. It’s all in one place! So,
if that sounds like something you'd like to do as well, keep reading.
Below you will find instructions on how to do that in AOL, Yahoo!
and Gmail. Okay, let's get started!
AOL
First, log in
to your AOL e-mail account, open up your e-mail mailbox and click
on the Manage Mail tab.
Next, click the Save On AOL title, followed by the
Setup Folders arrow and then click on Create
a Folder. A little box will then come up. In the Name
New Folder text box, go ahead and type in the name of the
new folder you would like to use. For example again, I named my new
folder "WorldStart." When you're done, click Save.
Your new folder
will then appear in the My Mail Folders list.
Yahoo!
Log in to your
Yahoo! e-mail account and click on the Mail tab.
Next, in your
Inbox, click the Move tab and a list will appear
for you. From there, go to the New Folder option
and click on it.
A new box will
come up where you can enter in a name for the new folder you're creating.
Click the OK button when you're done.
The new folder
will show up on the left hand side in the Mail Inbox window, under
My Folders.
Gmail
Now, before we
move on, I want to make it clear that Gmail doesn’t use folders.
Instead, they use what are called labels.
First, log in
to your Gmail e-mail account and click on Labels.
Next, select the New Label option under the Apply
Label: Title section. You can then type in the name you would
like to use for your new label. Then click OK.
That’s
it! Now, you can use your new folders and/or labels for all of your
e-mails. It's a much faster and much easier way to keep your e-mails
organized and in place. Give it a try today!
~ Tweety Dimes
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