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How to Save Emails in Microsoft Outlook

Have you ever received emails from the System Administrator informing you that you've exceeded your email quota? Well, now there's a couple of ways you can avoid that. Creating a personal or archived folder is a great way to save emails.

A personal folder, also known as Outlook data file in the 2003 version or .pst, is a media used for storing emails created in Outlook. It compresses your emails similar to a zip file allowing you to save hundreds of emails along with their attachments. An archive folder is similar to a personal folder in that they both use .pst to store and compress emails. Archive, however, can be setup automatically to save emails that are older than a specific date. And, the default location for archived folders are on your hard drive.

You can save emails that may take up too much space in your inbox. Or, save important emails from your colleagues, family members, friends and professors that you just don't want to delete. You could also use this to store a copy of your emails for use after you graduate.

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Working with Archive Folders (Adobe Acrobat) Documentation showing how to archive emails in Outlook.

Working with Personal Folders (Adobe Acrobat) Documentation showing how to save emails using personal folders in Outlook.