F1 Tuesday: Helping You Help Yourself: June 2011

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Time to Clean Out Your Closet, Er, I Mean Inbox

Today’s Topic: Clearing Out Your Outlook Inbox

Who? Users of Outlook who have full inboxes.

Why? Lots of us have lots of old emails sitting in our inboxes waiting for us to have the time to go through them and delete the ones we no longer need. Let’s face it, that time will never come—there will always be something better to do than delete old emails. This demonstration shows you had to adopt a popular closet cleaning technique to tidy up your inbox.

How? Watch this short screencast:

Clear Out Your Inbox from 10Tech on Vimeo.
(Note: This demonstration features Windows 7 operating system and Office 2007—different software will yield different results.)

Why F1?

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