If you do choose to move them to a folder, you’ll need to specify the folder in the conditions at the bottom:
Then click the “specific words” text at the bottom to edit the condition. In the resulting dialog, simply type a space and then click “Add”:
Voila! Nice and tidy. :-)
I set out to tame my incoming responses based on those guidelines by using a rule that would automatically deal with the responses that I don’t need to care about. You too can create this rule and modify if to suit your work style.
Click “Next”. In the resulting dialog, scroll down and select the “uses the form name form” condition.
You should now be setup with the rule looking like this:
I’m a big fan of the Clean Inbox concept for triaging my e-mail (more on that in a future postJ). This has naturally lead me to look for ways to keep ‘noise’ out of my Inbox and leave it as the single place to monitor mails that I need to triage (read/respond/defer). I already have a set of rules for keeping my distribution lists at bay inside their own folder, but have realized that a decent amount of noise coming into my Inbox had to do with meetings – specifically, responses to meetings that I scheduled.
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If you’re anything like me, then you send and receive lots of meeting requests in Outlook. In a typical week I’ll schedule around 10 new meetings with different people – if a typical meeting has approximately five attendees that could be 50 responses that come back to my Inbox. I realized a few things about meeting responses:
To get started, go to the Tools menu, choose Rules and Alerts,
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The result is my “Automatic Replies” folder:
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(Be sure to select “Application Forms” from the drop down at the top of the dialog or you might miss “Accept Meeting Response” and “Tentative Meeting Response.”) Once you’ve added the two forms,
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If an item comes in that is a Tentative or Accept meeting response, it moves it to my “Automatic Replies” folder and keeps it out of my Inbox. If it is a Decline it will remain in the Inbox. If the body has any content in it, regardless of the response type, it will remain in the Inbox.
I hope you find this tip helpful. Let us know what you think.
The key is the “uses the form name” condition. If you click the “form name” underlined text to edit the condition, you’ll find the Tentative and Accepts response forms in the resulting dialog:
Now click “OK”. This way the only responses that can slip through are ones with a single character in the body.
Click on the ‘specified’ text and choose a folder. Once you’ve selected a folder or chosen to delete the items, click “Next” in the wizard.
I only care when people Decline a meeting. I’m assuming most people will attend. Regardless of your response, if you type a comment in the body I want to see it. Outlook retains all of the response information on each meeting automatically in the “Tracking” tab.
Here’s how my rule works:
The last step is to set a condition to check if the person responding typed anything into the body of their Accept, Decline, or Tentative response. To do this, I use the “except if the body contains” condition to check for a single space in the body. Select the condition in the list:
You’re almost done! Click “Finish” in the rules wizard. It’s also very helpful to make this the first rule in your list, so use the arrows to move it to the top:
Now click “Check new messages as they arrive”.
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