Outlook Quick Tip

Give Your Email a Quick Cleanup

To make your computer run more efficiently, give your mailbox a quick cleanup.

  1. On the Tools menu, click Mailbox Cleanup.
  2. Before you begin, click View Mailbox Size (at top) to see the current size of your mailbox.
  3. Below that, select options to find mail items that are either old or large.
  4. Click Find to see a list of these items.
  5. To review an individual mail item and its attachments, double-click on it.
  6. Now you can more easily decide whether to move or delete that item.
  7. After permanently deleting items, click View Mailbox Size again to check your progress.

Note: When you delete an email message, it goes into your Deleted Items folder. You must delete a second time from that folder to permanently remove it and reduce the size of your mailbox.