Using Organizer Organizer provides a simple interface, with simple options, to move messages, change views, and create automatic formatting rules. | Team LiB Using Organizer Organizer provides a simple interface with simple options to move messages change views and create automatic formatting rules. It s great for beginners and everyone else to access Outlook s organizational features from one screen or create an automatic formatting view. After a while the Organize pane lacks the features even beginners need. Using the Rules Wizard or Customize Views dialog provides more options and is accessible from the Organize pane. Choose Tools Organize to open the Organize pane as seen in Figure . Figure . Use the Organize pane to move messages to new folders to use colors to highlight messages and to use views to control what you see in the message list. You ll have more options to use with automatic formatting views if you use the Customize Views dialog. Should you have a problem remembering how to get to Customize Views Automatic Formatting or the Rules Wizard you can use the shortcuts on each tab to take you there. The tab Using Folders enables you to move messages to new folders without creating a rule. Organizer gives you just one choice moving messages to somewhere. You can select an existing folder to move the messages to or create a new folder. If you want to create a rule to move all future messages to the folder you ll need to select Rules and Wizards. You can reach the Rules Wizard from the Organize pane by clicking the Rules and Alerts button in the right corner. The Organize pane can be used on any folder and works equally well when you select several messages and then move them as it does with just one message. An alternative to using the Organize pane to move messages is on the right-click context menu. Select the message or messages you want to move right-click and select Move to Folder. You can also create new rules from the right-click menu. Although it might appear that color-coding is a feature of the Rules Wizard it s really a view not a rule. It also involves more than changing the color .
