Outlook Screen Reader: Email Folders

Ricky: Hello, my name is Ricky Enger. And today we'll learn about folders in Microsoft Outlook. We'll explore existing folders, and we'll create a new one of our very own. Folders, why are we talking about folders instead of mailboxes? We've talked about our inbox in other workshops in this series, and now suddenly we're switching gears? What's with that? Well, it's not as weird as it seems.

Our inbox is similar to a physical mailbox, right? But we don't usually have physical mailboxes for things we've sent, or things we wanna save. For that, a folder makes more sense. It's a place where we store a collection of things that are related to each other. And we can flip through folders until we find the collection of things we want. It's the same in Outlook. We've got our inbox, of course, but what else do we have? To find out, we'll use a shortcut key to bring up a list of folders we can flip through.

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