Rules for Meeting Invitations
One of our recommendations for Calendar Harmony is that you send meeting invitation updates to all participants on all changes. This article describes how to have all meeting-related messages automatically filtered out of your Inbox and into a folder just for such messages.
This article applies to: Microsoft Outlook , Outlook for Mac , Outlook for Windows , Outlook on the Web
Outlook on the Web
- In the Outlook ribbon at the top of the page, click the icon.
- In the Settings window, in the left column, click
- In the middle column, click
- Click
- Give your rule a Name.
- Click the Add a condition dropdown, then select from the Message includes section.
- In the dropdown list that appears next to Type, select
- For Add an action, select
- In the dropdown list that appears next to Move to, select the folder where you want the messages filed. If the folder does not exist yet, click to create it now.
- Click .
Outlook for Mac
- From the Rules section of the Settings. menu choose . A window will open to the
- If you have more than one account, choose the one you want this rule to apply to from the upper left.
- Click .
- Give your rule a Name.
- Click dropdown, then select from the Message includes section.
- In the dropdown list that appears next to Type, select
- Click the Organize section. dropdown, then select from the
- In the dropdown list that appears next to Move to, select the folder where you want the messages filed. If the folder does not exist yet, click to create it now.
- Click .
Outlook for Windows
- From the Home ribbon, in the Move section, click , then click . A Rules and Alerts dialog box will open.
- On the Rules Wizard dialog box will open. tab, click . A
- In the box labeled Step 1: Select a template, in the Start from a blank rule section, select . Then click .
- This screen asks Which condition(s) do you want to check? Scroll down and select . A warning pop-up will tell you that "...this rule will not run on previous versions of Outlook. Would you like to continue?" Select
- Click .
- The next screen asks What do you want to do with the message? In the Step 1 action(s) section, select . Then, in the Step 2 section, click the underlined word . In the Rules and Alerts - Choose a folder dialog box, select the folder where you want these messages filed. If you haven’t yet created that folder, click to create one now.
- Click .
- Now you’re asked Are there any exceptions? For the simple version of this procedure, we’ll assume there are no exceptions, so just click .
- On the final screen, in Step 1: Specify a name for this rule, you give your rule a name
- In Step 2: Setup rule options, you choose
- whether the rule should be run on messages already in your Inbox,
- whether the rule should be turned on so that it will be applied to all incoming messages in the future, and
- if you have more than one account set up, whether the rule applies only to the current account or to all accounts.
- Click when you’ve made your selections.
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