How to Move Messages to Focused or Other Inbox for Outlook in Windows 10 Mail app


The Mail and Calendar apps included with Windows 10 help you stay up to date on your email, manage your schedule and stay in touch with people you care about the most. Designed for both work and home, these apps help you communicate quickly and focus on what’s important across all your accounts. Supports Office 365, Exchange, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yahoo! and other popular accounts.

Windows 10 Insiders on the Fast ring have been receiving notifications about a trial of a new focused inbox in Mail and Calendar.

Focused Inbox for Outlook helps you focus on the emails that matter most to you. It separates your inbox into two tabs—Focused and Other. Your most important emails are on the Focused tab while the rest remain easily accessible—but out of the way—on the Other tab. You’ll be informed about email flowing to Other, and you can switch between tabs at any time to take a quick look.

Focused Inbox works with you to prioritize what's most important. What lands in Focused Inbox is based on the content of the email (e.g., newsletters, machine-generated email, and so on) and who you interact with most often. If you need to fine-tune your Focused Inbox, Move to Focused and Move to Other options are available to do that.

This tutorial will show you how to move your Outlook email messages to the Focused or Other inbox in the Mail app in Windows 10 if you have been invited to join the trial.


EXAMPLE: Focused Inbox for Outlook in Windows 10 Mail app





Here's How:

1 Open the Mail app.

2 If you have more than one added email account, select the Outlook account (ex: Brink Outlook) you want to move messages to the Focused or Other inbox. (see screenshot below)

3 Do step 4 (Move to Other) or step 5 (Move to Focused) below for what you would like to do.

4 To Move Messages from Focused to Other

A) From your Inbox, click/tap on the Focused tab, and right click or press and hold on the message you want to move. (see screenshot below)

B) Click/tap on Move to Other or Always move to Other for what you want to do.

Choose Move to Other if you want only the selected message moved.

Choose Always move to Other if you want all future messages from the sender to be delivered to the Other tab.

C) If you clicked on Always move to Other, then click/tap on OK to confirm. (see screenshot below)

5 To Move Messages from Other to Focused

A) From your Inbox, click/tap on the Other tab, and right click or press and hold on the message you want to move. (see screenshot below)

B) Click/tap on Move to Focused or Always move to Focused for what you want to do.

Choose Move to Focused if you want only the selected message moved.

Choose Always move to Focused if you want all future messages from the sender to be delivered to the Focused tab.

C) If you clicked on Always move to Focused, then click/tap on OK to confirm. (see screenshot below)

That's it,
Shawn

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