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HOW TO… Manage your email using Outlook’s Quick Steps

What you need: Microsoft 365 subscription, or Outlook 2013 or later

Time required: One hour

Managing your email can be a full-time job. Something that was meant to make our lives easier by doing away with inefficient faxes and cutting the time it takes to post a letter has gotten out of control. Now, it can take several hours a day to keep things in order – especially if you get a lot of messages that need forwarding to someone else, dealing with another time, or deleting because they’re spam.

Thankfully, this is something that email developers are well aware of, and are trying to fix. They realise that streamlining the process is likely to win them a host of new users.

Outlook’s approach isof tasks that can be executed in sequence with a simple keyboard shortcut.

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