CNBC: These 'unspoken rules' are the real secrets to success, says Harvard career advisor: 'They aren't taught in school' When Gorick Ng was starting out, he didn't know the rules. He didn't even know they existed. But as he soon found out, there are a whole slew of "unspoken rules" that are essential to achieving career ...

Understanding the Context

These 'unspoken rules' are the real secrets to success, says Harvard career advisor: 'They aren't taught in school' Use rules to automatically perform specific actions on email that arrives in your inbox. For example, you can create rules that will change the importance level of messages as they come in, automatically move them to other folders, or delete them based on certain criteria. Select a tab option below for the version of Outlook you're using. What version of Outlook do I have?

Key Insights

Microsoft 365 Copilot in Outlook helps you create and review inbox rules using natural language. You can ask Copilot to set up rules that organize incoming email such as moving, categorizing, or deleting messages and quickly review which rules are active, without opening the Rules settings page. Training: Use rules to organize your email in Outlook. Create a rule based on a message, or from a template. Watch this online video to learn how.

Final Thoughts

Client-side rules have at least one condition or action that uses an Outlook feature, and they don’t run until you log into classic Outlook for Windows with the account that you used to create the rule. For example, this is a client-only rule: From <people or distribution list>, flag message to <play a sound> In this example, you ask the rule to play a sound when you receive a message, and ...